Plant Manager

About the Role

The Plant Manager, Blacks Harbour is a driven, results-oriented operations leader responsible for overseeing all aspects of canned sardine production in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. This role ensures production is delivered on schedule, at the lowest possible cost, and at the highest quality standards through strong strategic and tactical leadership of all plant departments. The Plant Manager has a proven track record of leading, motivating, and engaging teams while adapting to change and driving continuous improvement.

What you will do here :

• Assure a safe workplace for all employees and contractors. Maintain safe working conditions and practices to comply with all government regulations while resulting in world-class metrics such as TIR & LTIR. Set the tone at the top concerning safety training, incident investigations, inspections, audits, and safety committee meetings.
• Lead and mentor the management team for top performance.
• Conduct and evaluate reviews of operating results, actual vs. planned metrics, and progress on personal goals. Establish priorities and procedures as needed to achieve desired results.
• Develop capital budgets and strategic plans (annual & long-term) for the cannery. Identify asset reconfiguration needs and execute plans to ensure consistent, reliable plant performance.
• Evaluate technologies to improve quality, consistency, and food safety.
• Ensure operational readiness of equipment by ensuring proper maintenance and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Actively manage the facility and ensure adherence to and compliance with all applicable rules and regulations.
• Ensure the Company’s key goals and objectives related to safety, food quality and compliance, cost savings, margin improvement, working capital and growth are achieved.
• Direct staff members in the development of budgets, business objectives and goals.
• Manage financial controls and operational KPIs so operations continually ‘meet or beat’ financial performance commitments while not sacrificing quality attributes.
• Strive for world-class manufacturing and utilize ‘best practices’ in each function.
• Exhibit a “Passion for Excellence” through engagement with all levels of management, team members, and customers.
• Demonstrate senior leadership skills that encourage collaboration among all levels of management and team members.
• Maintain a High-Performance environment where employees feel engaged, motivated, challenged, and rewarded for contributing to achieving superior results.
• Hire, coach, and evaluate staff while modelling the Company’s culture and values.
• Create a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement through LEAN principles, implementation of work standards, and development of feedback mechanisms.
• Champion an assertive Cost Improvement Program that delivers annual commitments.
• Participate as a member of the New Product Development team to facilitate new products and set quality standards.

What you bring to the team :

Connors Bros. fosters diversity, inclusion and belonging within and across our organization. We welcome all to apply, including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Interested applicants can apply directly.

Connors Bros. is an accessible employer. If you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Canadian Roots. Passionate about Seafood. Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp first captured the flavour of the sea way back in 1871 when we founded the first cannery on the Fraser River in British Columbia. Since then, we’ve expanded operations nationwide so we can provide delicious, nutritious seafood for all Canadians. When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods, Bumble Bee Seafoods International or Connors Bros., you become part of a company that, together with our parent company, Bumble Bee Seafoods, is working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. From fishers to our employees, to customers, consumers, and to the communities we serve, we base our actions on shared, transparent values that hold us accountable to each other and the world.

In connection with our values and commitment to people first, at Clover Leaf Seafood Company, we believe in a diverse and inclusive culture where self-expression is not only welcome, but fundamental to doing good in the world. Clover Leaf Seafood Corp. is committed to equal opportunity. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, ancestry, place of origin, creed or religion, age, disability, marital status, family status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political belief or activity or any other grounds covered by the applicable provincial human rights legislation.

Locations for Canada :

Markham, Ontario

Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick

Saint John, New Brunswick

Remote

About Bumble Bee Seafoods

The Bumble Bee Seafood Company is passionately pursuing its purpose of feeding people’s lives through the power of the ocean. We are an iconic 125-year-old fishing company that consistently aims to deliver delicious, healthy, and affordable food to consumers while working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. Bumble Bee is firmly anchored in a commitment to connect the world to the ocean by re-defining sourcing, producing, and enjoying products from and inspired by the ocean.

Bumble Bee’s full line of seafood and specialty protein products are marketed in the U.S., Canada and over 50 markets globally under leading brands including Bumble Bee®, Brunswick®, Clover Leaf®, Snow’s®, and Beach Cliff®. For more information about the company, visit TheBumbleBeeCompany.com. For product information, visit www.BumbleBee.com.

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