About the Role
As a Shift Manager, you will oversee daily plant operations during your assigned shift. Your mission? To lead, coach, and empower teams to deliver exceptional results in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You’ll be responsible for creating a safe, productive, and people-first workplace, ensuring performance targets are met while continuously improving systems and processes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Safety First
- Enforce compliance with health and safety standards, including OHSA, WHMIS, AODA, and internal safety policies.
- Conduct safety audits, lead safety talks, and ensure team training is current and complete.
- Act promptly on incidents: administer first aid, document reports, investigate root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
- Support return-to-work accommodations and ensure retraining is completed for returning team members.
2. People Leadership
- Engage and lead your team through pre-shift huddles, production meetings, and daily communication.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and performance feedback to team members and team leads.
- Manage attendance, approve timecards (Ceridian), and follow up on absences.
- Foster a respectful and productive team culture while supporting conflict resolution and progressive discipline in collaboration with HR.
3. Production Oversight
- Drive shift performance to meet KPIs including OEE, OTIF, EOL, and flow rate.
- Plan daily operations: allocate manpower, manage shift priorities, and execute changeovers efficiently.
- Monitor and respond to equipment performance; coordinate with maintenance for timely repairs and support.
- Communicate production targets clearly and ensure runtime data is consistently tracked and reviewed.
4. Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Lead plant and process audits to maintain cleanliness, equipment standards, and visual management boards.
- Address quality issues through root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
- Champion Lean manufacturing practices including 5S, Kaizen, and other CI tools.
- Identify workflow improvements and help drive initiatives that enhance efficiency and reduce waste.
- Ensure all work aligns with ISO standards, internal policies, and regulatory compliance.
What You Bring to the Role
- A genuine passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing people into high-performing teams
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ideally within a Lean organization. ( steel/ metal industry production experience preferred)
- Solid understanding of Lean manufacturing principles and design-for-manufacturing best practices
- Proven leadership experience in a large-scale production setting, with a track record of driving results
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization
- Exceptional time management, organization, and planning skills
- A goal-oriented mindset, with a strong commitment to achieving both team and company objectives
- Analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and collaborative team player
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, MS Word and Excel
- JHSC (Joint Health & Safety Committee) certification is considered an asset
Timings - Continental shifts ( biweekly rotational)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $90,000.00-$94,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- Have you led a production team on a manufacturing shift?
- Are you familiar with OHSA, WHMIS, and AODA workplace safety standards?
- Have you used Ceridian or another system to manage timecards and attendance?
- Are you available to work rotating shifts and spend the majority of your time on the plant floor (PPE required)?
- Do you have 8 or more years of experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?
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Work Location: In person
