The primary purpose is to manage production processes, optimize resources, and lead cross functional teams to meet business objectives. Responsible for overseeing the daily operations of Bericap’s Burlington Plant, ensuring efficiency, productivity, and safety. This position plays a crucial role in budgeting, quality control, equipment maintenance, and workforce management to ensure smooth plant operations.

Responsibilities

Maintains a safe setting for all Bericap employees

As part of the food safety team, this position has responsibility for assisting in creating, maintaining and reviewing food safety plans and other pre-requisite programs

Manages the Production, Maintenance, and Process teams

Ensures that quality standards are established, understood at required levels and incorporated in all manufacturing practices

Operations Management

Oversee daily production activities to ensure efficiency, quality and adherence to schedules

Implement and monitor KPIs for throughput, downtime, and yield

Coordinate cross-functional teams to meet manufacturing targets

Ensures that production objectives are at the lowest cost consistent with quality production

Through direct reports, oversees execution of manufacturing schedules based on sales requirements and plant capacity

Management of continuous improvement initiatives

Commercialization of signed off new equipment and/or product startups

Approves all plant purchase orders and expense reports

Identify cost‑saving opportunities in labor, materials, and energy





Strategic Planning & Reporting

Aligning corporate objectives into clear achievable plant goals, ensuring alignment across safety, quality, cost, delivery and people objectives

Provide regular reports for senior management on performance metrics

Establishes plant operating budgets on an annual basis and monitors the adherence to them

Support new product launches and capacity expansion projects by assessing operational readiness

Track ROI on investments

Safety & Compliance

Enforce EHS policies and ensure regulatory compliance

Lead safety audits and emergency preparedness drills

Champion the See It, Sort It, Report It Continuous Improvement System

Leadership and Team Development

Lead, mentor, and develop plant staff across all departments

Demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the local site’s management systems, by reviewing issues reported by their employees, attending management reviews, ensuring adequate resources, and promoting continuous improvement

Foster a culture of accountability, safety, and innovation

Conduct yearly performance reviews and identify training needs for senior, supervisor, and Management in the Production, Process,



Mold Shop, and Maintenance Departments

Other

Ensure all quality, food safety, safety, environmental as well as all other Company policies and procedures are followed

Ensure that all quality, food safety, safety, and environmental issues are reported to the appropriate manager or supervisor

Ensure all work is carried out safely and without injury.

Demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the local site’s management systems, by reviewing issues reported by their employees, attending management reviews, ensuring adequate resources, and promoting continuous improvement

Skills & Abilities

Advanced communication skills

Excellent problem‑solving and organization skills

Strong leadership and team management skills

Technical product process knowledge

Process Improvement

Safety and Compliance

Critical thinking skills

Strategic vision

Education

University degree in Engineering or Business Administration preferred

Experience

10+ years progressive management experience with a minimum of 5 years as a production manager in plastics or food manufacturing facility

Experience should include several of the following disciplines: Quality, Materials, Engineering, Accounting, Sales, Development, Maintenance and Manufacturing

Continuous Improvement through QOS, 6 Sigma

ISO/SKF experience an asset

Reporting Structure

Position reports to the VP/General Manager - Canada

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📌 Plant Manager (Ontario)
🏢 BERICAP North America
📍 Ontario