JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Purpose: The Plant Manager position directs and manages all daily operations, maintenance, and personnel to maximize the capacity and efficiency of production. This includes the following overall responsibilities for safety, quality, and other activities in the plant. This individual will model visible, positive leadership to plant workers and the maintenance team, resulting in optimal productivity, quality control and safety practices. This role is crucial in the overall success of the day-to-day processing operations because their primary function is to use and establish new best practices and protocols that ensures all equipment is running at full capacity. The Company is in a period of rapid expansion, and the ability to assist the production team in implementing the needed processes and controls to ensure a world-class operation is key to the role. The Plant Manager will be a proven leader, teacher, and team builder, able to work in a dynamic environment to manage our assets and people effectively.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Understand press troubleshooting, manage, and work with the maintenance team to assist with training crews to perform basic repair and maintenance to keep press running.
- Understand and lead the mechanical aspects of the operation, including the two hay presses, additional wheeled equipment and chaff presses and any other equipment used in the processing of forage. Assists and oversees mechanical troubleshooting and repair and is integral in liaising with suppliers of the equipment on repairs and maintenance as well as ongoing optimization of control systems.
- Direct and manage all plant operations, including safety, product & process quality control/assurance, production, equipment, and site maintenance.
- Interview and hire new employees. Onboard and ensure the successful training of new candidates. Work with the production foremen to create and implement a formal training process for new production employee onboarding.
- Provides input regarding production job descriptions and works with accounting to help administer and manage production payroll and perks.
- Ensure semi-annual performance and development reviews of all staff.
- Complete production performance reviews in a prompt and consistent manner. Ensures disciplinary reviews and actions are administered, documented,



and appropriately managed in compliance with the HR policies.
- Complete bi-weekly production schedules. Review and communicate with Foremen about adequate resourcing for Booking schedules and Pressing Instructions.
- Ensure successful development and progression of plant staff with a focus on safety, quality, and teamwork.
- Provides ongoing training, support, development and mentoring for employees.
- Works closely with Logistics, Inventory, Sales, and Marketing to ensure that all product is being stored, tracked, processed, and precisely moved throughout the plant and storage sheds efficiently and effectively.
- Sets production goals and leads to achieving them through communication and planning with the plant staff.
- Works with Production Foreman to ensure that a daily tailgate meeting is completed at the start of each shift.
- Monitor weekly plant production metrics to maximize capacity and order accuracy.
- Works with the General Manager to efficiently run the production team optimizing production volume and aligning resources with performance output compared to budget.
- Work with the General Manager to deliver information to the finance, accounting, analytical and management teams to develop annual budgets.
- Provide insight for long-term solutions to increase efficient processing operations and the management thereof, and ultimately helps build out the systems as the company grows.
- Ensure prompt and accurate reporting of daily production activities by Foremen.
- Work with inventory and accounting to ensure production staff is trained and proficient in Shipper XL Inventory Management System.
- Implement and support preventative safety and maintenance programs and continuous improvement.
- Gains a hand on and thorough understanding of each production position. Provide recommendations for process improvements, support crews, and assist Foreman as required.
- Work with General Manager, Logistics Manager,



and Farm Manager to create an effective harvest product management plan involving equipment resource, production schedule, and staffing.

Qualifications:

- Proven managerial experience in a similar capacity, with strong people management skills. Enjoys interacting with people. Building, fostering, and leading a high functioning team.
- Proven history of managing an operation, budget, and leading teams to achieve increasing objectives year-over-year.
- +5 years of plant/ processing experience in an agriculture, manufacturing, or similar supervisory environment is essential. Must have mechanical aptitude.
- Technical Diploma or Accredited Trade, bachelor’s degree in agriculture management or a related field would be an asset.
- Safety track record
- Class Five Driver's License, and a Clean Driver's Abstract
- Demonstrated leadership and ability to lead and motivate individuals.
- Ability to facilitate complex problem solving through good organization, management skills, written and verbal communication.
- Optimist, self-starter, eager to learn recent things and continuously improve.
- Knowledge or experience in forage (i.e., Timothy, Alfalfa and Oat Hay) production and/or processing, would be an asset.
- Knowledge of and sufficient skill using Microsoft Office products (i.e., Excel, Office, and PowerPoint) and computers.
- Knowledge of automated processes.
- Track record of successfully supervising industrial operations to ensure staff is sufficiently trained and alert to prevent operator errors and incidents.
- Fosters collaboration, communication, and teamwork.

Working conditions:

- The production plants run 2 shifts a day, 7 days/week.
- Shift work will be required to align with plant operations. 10-12 hours per day or as needed.
- Exposure to noise, dust, hay dust and adverse weather conditions.
- Exposure to high levels of hay dust may aggravate allergies and asthma.

· This role is onsite and located in a rural area, personal transportation is required to and from the plant.

Physical Requirements:

- Able to work during seasonal weather conditions.
- Ability to stand for extended amounts of time.
- Ability to lift one hundred (100) pounds.
- Required to wear appropriate PPE in plant.

Pay: From $50.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40.0 per week

Benefits:

- Casual dress
- On-site parking

Work Location: In person

📌 Plant Manager (Canada)
🏢 Recognized
📍 Canada