POSITION SUMMARY The Afternoon Shift Plant Manager is responsible for the safe, efficient, and effective operation of the manufacturing facility during the afternoon shift. The Plant Manager is responsible for overall production performance, employees, supervisors, safety, quality, labour efficiency, equipment, material flow, housekeeping, and achievement of daily production targets across assigned manufacturing departments. The position is responsible for ensuring the shift production plan is executed and that problems affecting safety, quality, production, labour, materials, or equipment are identified and addressed promptly. The Afternoon Shift Plant Manager is expected to maintain strong floor presence, actively manage performance throughout the shift, and ensure a complete and accurate handoff of production status and outstanding issues to management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Production Management
- Execute the daily production schedule and ensure all supervisors and departments understand manufacturing priorities.
- Ensure each department understands its daily and hourly production targets.
- Monitor actual production against target throughout the shift.
- Identify departments falling behind pace and take corrective action before the end of the shift.
- Coordinate production between dependent departments to maintain continuous product flow.
- Manage production priorities according to customer requirements, scheduled completion dates, and operational needs.
- Monitor work-in-process and prevent unnecessary backlog accumulation between departments.
- Ensure completed production is accurately reported.
- Escalate significant production risks or schedule concerns to senior management. 2. Manufacturing Departments Provide overall shift leadership for applicable operations including:
- Window manufacturing
- Entrance door manufacturing
- Insulated glass manufacturing
- Glass cutting and batching
- Painting and finishing
- Shipping and receiving, where applicable Ensure departments operate as one manufacturing system rather than independent production areas. 3. Production Targets & Pace Management
- Establish and communicate expected production pace at the beginning of the shift.
- Monitor production at predetermined intervals throughout the shift.
- Compare actual units produced against expected units.
- Use production pace trackers, ERP information, production boards, or other approved systems.
- Require supervisors to explain significant production variances.
- Develop recovery plans when departments fall behind.
- Reallocate employees or resources where appropriate.
- Monitor bottlenecks and constraints affecting downstream departments.
- Ensure production problems are acted upon during the shift rather than simply reported afterward. The expectation is that the Plant Manager always knows: Where production should be, where production actually is, why a variance exists, and what action is being taken to recover it. 4. Labour Management & Efficiency
- Ensure employees are assigned appropriately based on workload and production requirements.
- Monitor labour hours and labour efficiency by department.
- Adjust staffing when production requirements change.
- Identify overstaffed and understaffed areas.
- Coordinate temporary movement of employees between departments where appropriate.
- Minimize unnecessary overtime.
- Ensure breaks, lunches, start times, and end times are properly managed.
- Monitor attendance and respond to unexpected absences.
- Work with supervisors to address employee performance issues.
- Ensure supervisors actively manage their teams and hold employees accountable for expected performance.
- Identify training and cross-training requirements. 5. Supervisor Leadership Direct and support department supervisors and lead hands during the shift. The Plant Manager shall:




- Conduct a shift-start meeting with supervisors.
- Review production requirements and priorities.
- Establish expectations for the shift.
- Review staffing shortages and constraints.
- Follow up with supervisors throughout the shift.
- Coach supervisors on production and employee management.
- Hold supervisors accountable for their departments' results.
- Ensure supervisors communicate problems promptly rather than waiting until the end of the shift.
- Develop supervisors' leadership and problem-solving capabilities. 6. Quality
- Ensure products are manufactured according to approved specifications and quality standards.
- Reinforce quality-at-the-source expectations.
- Ensure required inspections are completed.
- Respond promptly to recurring defects or quality problems.
- Stop or contain production when you identify significant quality concerns.
- Coordinate segregation and disposition of non-conforming material.
- Investigate significant rework and scrap.
- Work with Quality Assurance and supervisors to determine root causes.
- Ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Monitor repeat defects and recurring problems. Production quantity must never be achieved at the expense of product quality. 7. Health & Safety The Afternoon Shift Plant Manager is responsible for maintaining a safe workplace throughout the shift. Responsibilities include:
- Enforce company health and safety policies and procedures.
- Ensure employees use required PPE.
- Ensure machine guarding and safety devices remain in place.
- Address unsafe conditions and behaviours immediately.
- Ensure proper glass-handling procedures are followed.
- Ensure forklifts and material-handling equipment are operated safely.
- Maintain explicit aisles, exits, emergency equipment, and pedestrian routes.
- Report incidents, injuries, near misses, and hazards promptly.
- Participate in investigations and corrective actions.
- Ensure supervisors perform their required safety responsibilities.
- Stop work where an unsafe condition presents an unacceptable risk.
- Support compliance with applicable Ontario occupational health and safety requirements. 8. Equipment & Maintenance
- Monitor equipment performance throughout the shift.
- Ensure equipment problems are reported immediately.
- Coordinate with maintenance personnel to prioritize repairs.
- Determine the production impact of equipment downtime.
- Adjust production schedules or resources when equipment becomes unavailable.
- Ensure operators perform required equipment inspections.
- Ensure equipment is not operated when unsafe.
- Track recurring downtime and communicate significant equipment concerns to management.
- Support preventative maintenance requirements without unnecessarily compromising production. 9. Material Flow & Inventory
- Ensure required materials are available to production.
- Monitor shortages that could affect the production schedule.
- Coordinate with material handlers, purchasing, warehouse personnel, and supervisors as necessary.
- Ensure glass, profiles, hardware, components, packaging, and other materials are delivered to production areas when required.
- Prevent production lines from stopping due to known material shortages.
- Ensure material is properly identified and handled.
- Minimize unnecessary movement and handling of materials. 10. Problem Solving The Afternoon Shift Plant Manager is expected to actively resolve problems rather than simply document them. When production is affected,



the Plant Manager should determine:
- What happened?
- What is the immediate impact?
- What is the root cause?
- What can be done immediately?
- How will lost production be recovered?
- What needs to change to prevent recurrence? Significant unresolved problems must be escalated promptly. 11. Housekeeping & Workplace Organization
- Maintain clean, organized, and safe production areas.
- Ensure scrap and waste are removed appropriately.
- Maintain clear aisles and work areas.
- Store tools, racks, carts, and materials in designated locations.
- Support 5S and workplace-organization initiatives.
- Ensure departments are left organized at the end of the shift. 12. End-of-Shift Handoff & Reporting Before completing the shift, the Plant Manager shall provide an accurate production handoff including:
- Target production
- Actual production
- Target attainment percentage
- Labour hours and significant efficiency issues
- Departments that missed target
- Reasons for significant misses
- Production remaining
- Backlog concerns
- Equipment downtime
- Material shortages
- Quality issues
- Staffing concerns
- Safety incidents
- Maintenance requirements
- Priority items for the following shift
- Corrective actions initiated Significant issues should never be left for the following shift without communication. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Performance of the Afternoon Shift Plant Manager may be measured using:
- Production Target Attainment
- Labour Efficiency
- Schedule Attainment
- Units per Labour Hour
- On-Time Production Completion
- Scrap Rate
- Rework Rate
- First-Pass Quality
- Equipment Downtime
- Overtime
- Absenteeism
- Safety Performance
- Housekeeping / 5S
- Backlog
- Supervisor Performance
- Accuracy of Production Reporting QUALIFICATIONS
- Previous manufacturing management experience, preferably in windows, doors, glass, building products, or a related manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple production departments.
- Strong understanding of production scheduling and manufacturing flow.
- Experience managing supervisors and production employees.
- Strong understanding of labour efficiency and production metrics.
- Ability to interpret production reports and KPIs.
- Solid mechanical and manufacturing aptitude.
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Excel preferred.
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to make timely decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of applicable Ontario workplace health and safety requirements. LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS The Afternoon Shift Plant Manager must maintain a strong and visible presence on the production floor. This position requires a manager who:
- Leads from the production floor rather than primarily from an office.
- Knows the status of each major department throughout the shift.
- Holds supervisors accountable while supporting them in solving problems.
- Makes decisions based on facts, measurements, and production requirements.
- Addresses poor performance promptly.
- Recognizes strong performance.
- Communicates clearly and professionally.
- Works collaboratively across departments.
- Takes ownership of the entire shift's results. CORE ACCOUNTABILITY The Afternoon Shift Plant Manager owns the plant's performance during the assigned shift. Success means delivering the required production safely, at the required quality, within planned labour hours, and according to schedule, while identifying problems early enough to take corrective action. The objective is not simply to report at the end of the shift what went wrong. The objective is to identify what is going wrong while there is still time to correct it. Pay: $100,000.00-$125,000.00 per year Work

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📌 WINDOW AND DOOR MANUFACTURING AFTERNOON SHIFT PLANT MANAGER (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 KV Custom Windows & Doors
📍 Greater Toronto Area