Production Supervisor

Position Title: Supervisor Production Coaldale

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Grade: Grade 04

Coaldale, AB

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About The Role.

The Production Supervisor is responsible for coaching, leading, and developing a team. This position will manage the day-to-day operations or other supervisory duties as required. The day-to-day responsibilities of a Production Supervisor include maintaining open lines of communication, various administrative tasks required for their area, and effective utilization and management of raw materials and employee time. The Supervisor ensures uniform application and interpretation of established SOP's, specifications, shift-to-shift consistency, and coordination of employee training. The Supervisor serves as a coach and mentor for the associates in their area. This position will work 12-hour shifts, on a rotating schedule that includes, days, nights, weekends, and holidays.

What You'll Be Doing.

- Manages overall operation of their area. Responsible to lead, guide, support and demonstrate ownership for the assigned area to ensure all targets / standards are met on an hourly, daily and monthly basis including effective utilization and management of raw products.
- Personnel management of their team, including but not limited to promptly addressing performance concerns and issuing corrective action as necessary, reduction of turnover and absenteeism, employee recognition, development, and training of direct reports, coaching and mentoring of direct reports e.t.c.




- Maintain a safety conscious attitude among direct reports, minimization of all workplace incidents and accidents, and accurate and timely completion of all accident investigation reports.
- Driving daily team use of the MDI process and actioning any gaps found within the team.
- Maintain records and reports to effectively evaluate the progress of their team.
- Communicate closely with their Shift Manager to ensure completion of production requirements and that finished product meets quality standards and meets customer specifications.
- Operate within established quality standards to maintain lowest possible holds or segregation.
- Work closely with Quality Control personnel & Maintenance to ensure smooth operations and ensure system efficiency.
- Administrative functions of a supervisory role, such as time keeping, vacation planning, investigation, and disciplinary action, taking call-ins and finding replacements, reports preparation and scheduling. etc.
- Support and drive interdepartmental initiatives for Safety, QA, Costing, and H.R & Maintenance
- Take an active role in process improvement initiatives, employee training and support other continuous improvement initiatives.
- Proven ability to champion and coach the use of digital systems and our plant control software. PlantPax/FTView, SAP, MDI, OSIPI and related software,



Dimensions, ProductVision, and others.
- Other projects/duties as assigned or required.

What You'll Need To Be Successful.

- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering, Food Science, Business, or a similar field is an asset but not required.
- 2- 3 years team leadership experience.
- 1-3 years food or beverage manufacturing experience is an asset.
- The ability to lead, train and collaborate with others.
- Robust organizational, communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Sound fact-based decision making and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering results.
- Adaptable and flexible team player who is a champion of change.
- Ability to work rotating shifts.
- Willing to grow and develop future career opportunities.

About The Team.

You’ll join a fast-paced production team focused on safety, quality, consistency, and operational excellence. As Production Supervisor, you’ll provide hands-on leadership and coaching while partnering with your team to manage daily operations, coordinate training, optimize resources, and maintain consistent processes across shifts. This is a highly collaborative role for someone who enjoys developing people and building strong teams.

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

AI & Digital Capabilities

At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curi

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