EXPERIENCE
Production Supervisor
Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Saskatoon
May 2019 - present
Leadership:
- Schedule, supervise and coach 80 employees and 15 production lines facilitating essential training of associates with Canada's leading consumer protein company.
- Direct reports include 3 lead hands & 2 HACCP personnel.
- Co-ordinate daily production in a multi-line, fast-paced food production facility through the direction of a unionized hourly workforce.
- Coach and discipline associates to drive a continuous improvement culture and a safe environment that aligns with company policies.
- Directing, coordinating and supporting all aspects of a food processing facility.
- Trained shop floor employees on SAP implementation for data entry and reports.
- Using the knowledge of HACCP, health and safety
legislation, quality standards and good manufacturing programs and practices.
Planning and Reporting:
- Prepare and issue daily reports to upper management on product yield, scrap, downtime, and efficiencies.
- Ensure production plan achieved with 98% plan adherence.
- Responsible for training, discipline, production
operation, time and attendance.
- Manage labour hours of all stakeholders to ensure
correct payroll.
- Ensure that all production targets are achieved according to schedule while investigating problems and acting when required.
- Playing an active role to consistently monitor employee health & safety policies - accident/incident investigation, deciding modified duties.
- Designing, implementing & monitoring SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for the workstations.
Critical Thinking:
- Resolving work problems and recommending measures to improve productivity and product quality.
Found root causes and solutions to eliminate bottlenecks, raise product quality, and reduce waste.
Performed lean manufacturing activities such as huddle meetings, 5-whys and root-cause exercises.
Actively managing Quality Processes like pre-shipment audits, investigation of quality deviations.
Actively participated in the 2019 BRC audit
Collaboration:
- Focused on quality improvement and process waste elimination initiatives through cross-functional team leadership.
- Managing manpower planning like - manpower requisition, targeted interviewing, onboarding & performance reviews.
- Coordinated production schedule with materials and packaging departments based on the orders and gave recommendation accordingly to maintain constant production flow.
- Inspected machinery, coordinated repairs, and completed annual OSHA training with Safety manager.