- Ensures the safe, efficient, and effective use of the workforce, equipment, and material resources.
- Provides leadership, direction, guidance, supervision, evaluation, motivation, and training of production employees.
- Schedules equipment and personnel to ensure production requirements/targets are met on a timely basis.
- Effectively uses operational data daily to measure and communicate trends; reinforces positive results and initiates corrective actions as appropriate.
- Ensures that both Company and Governmental quality, sanitation and environmental standards are met, as well as frequent review and implementation of such Policies.
- Liaises with the Maintenance Department to minimize downtime and ensure product safety and quality.
- Always ensures safe conditions; takes appropriate action to protect the health and safety of employees.
- Responsible for personnel management including performance and disciplinary conversations.
- Comply, communicate, and ensure compliance of team with all Saputo Saskatoon policies and procedures.
- Comply, communicate, and ensure compliance of team with all Saputo Saskatoon Health and Safety, and Food Safety and Quality regulations.
- Supports and maintains Saputo Dairy Products Canada G.P.'s product quality standards.
- Attend scheduled shift regularly and punctually, ready to fulfil all duties required.
- Focus on customer satisfaction.
- Builds and maintains effective internal and external relationships and other duties as required.
- Monitor cheese production and raw receiving, whey processing and Dryer operation.
- Monitor cheese/milk quality and participate in any resolution to key indicators.
- Take inventory and order supplies and ingredients needed for cheese making, raw receiving, pasteurizing.
- Perform physical verifications of Standard Operating Procedures throughout department.
- Issue all hold tags and deviations according to procedures.
- Communicate with other Supervisors and Production Manager regarding production needs and maintenance issues.
- Track yields and moistures to ensure consistency throughout product.
- Schedule personnel based on staffing requirements.
- Conduct orientations and training with new employees.
- Implement new procedures as necessary and verify completeness.
- Ensure employee safety is maintained and food safety is upheld.
- Ensure all equipment is in proper working order and repaired accordingly.
- Assist in production of cheese as necessary.
- Post-secondary education in Food Sciences, Dairy Technology, Microbiology, or other related education/experience is an asset.
- Minimum of 3 years' progressive experience (an asset if in the Dairy or Food manufacturing environment);
- Thorough knowledge of Dairy operations with emphasis on processing and sanitation.
- Proficient computer skills
- Proficient with Kronos is an asset.
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills, demonstrated through previous experience.
- Must be self-motivated, results oriented, possess high degree of initiative, work well under pressure.
- Able to motivate and effectively manage a large group of employees, ensuring a professional and positive environment.
- Strong written, oral communication and mathematical skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Multi-tasking, organizational skills.
- Time management skills.
- Promotes and works well in a team environment.
- Adaptable to change.
- Competitive salaries
- Advantageous corporate agreements
- Full range of group insurance benefits
- Group retirement pension plan with employer contribution
- Purchase option of company stocks
- Group RRSP
- Health and wellness program in the workplace
- Assistance program for employees and their families
- Saputo products at a discounted price
Supervisor, Production - Saskatoon, Canada - DPC Saputo Dairy Products Canada G.P.
Description
At Saputo, our best comes from our people. We're a talented and caring team with a longstanding history of excellence. Since our first days delivering cheese on a bicycle, we've grown into a leading global dairy processor by staying true to the culture that defines us. Each of our employees is committed to uphold our tradition of care, quality, and passion through food, and together, we foster an environment where we can all make contributions that matter–from our manufacturing plants to our office locations and everywhere in-between.
SUMMARY OF TASKS
Reporting to the Production Manager - Cheese Department, the Production Supervisor role forms a key part of our leadership team. The Production Supervisor is responsible for leading our production employees and overseeing the day-to-day operations to ensure the proper allocation of resources and objectives are met for quality, health and safety, food safety, efficiency.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Cheese Making:
QUALIFICATIONS
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
The candidate will show leadership and initiative. They will demonstrate entrepreneurial flare and will have creativity and self motivation. They must be able to work independently and must have the capacity to multitask. Furthermore, they must be able to bring projects to full completion without close supervision.
We support and care for our employees and their families by providing:
We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join its family.
Our story began in Canada in 1954, when the Saputo family's hard work and dedication created a thriving dairy business. More than 65 years later, our roots in this country remain strong with our Corporate Headquarters in Montréal. Today, we are a leading cheese manufacturer and fluid milk and cream processor in Canada with well-loved brands, such as Saputo, Alexis de Portneuf, Armstrong, Baxter, Dairyland, Joyya, Milk2Go, Milk2Go Sport, Neilson, Nutrilait, Scotsburn* and Woolwich Goat Dairy. Thanks to our national footprint, we're proud to bring our best to our customers and consumers, and have plenty of opportunities for our employees to grow in their own way. And we do it while also striving to build a healthier future for our people and the communities where we operate, guided by our values and the Saputo Promise.