Mine/Production Supervisor

Sel Windsor; Pugwash; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Windsor Salt is seeking a Mine/Production Supervisor to lead a unionized team across days, afternoons, and midnights. You will direct production, ensure safety, and maintain quality standards while coordinating with maintenance and QA. Expect overtime and flexible shift coverage as required.

The role emphasizes leadership, safety compliance, and continuous improvement in a mining environment. Applicants should have supervisory experience in unionized settings and strong communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a High school diploma, with some post-secondary education preferred.
• 3-5 years supervising unionized employees.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience with basic computer applications.
• Leadership experience and process improvement exposure are assets.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to a unionized workforce of about 10–25 direct reports on rotating shifts, promoting safety and production.
• Promote safe work practices and ensure production meets quality targets.
• Direct and support maintenance on some shifts as needed.
• Ensure safety policies, incident investigations, and corrective actions are followed in a timely manner.
• Coordinate training, housekeeping, and daily performance through safety meetings and clear communication.
• Plan workforce requirements with Production Manager to meet production schedules.
• Guide the team in executing the production plan and adjust for quality.
• Utilize throughput thinking to meet internal customer needs (Rock Salt Mill).
• Maintain strong liaison with QA to ensure product quality.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Presentation skills

Computer literacy

Education

High school diploma

3-5 years supervising unionized employees

Job description

Pugwash Mine
106 Sheas Island Rd
Pugwash, NS B0K 1L0, CAN

Description

For more than 125 years, Windsor Salt has improved the lives of Canadians by making their food tastier, their roads safer, their pools cleaner, and so much more. From the salt we mine and produce through evaporative processes, Windsor Salt is a trusted authority on salt in Canada and has one of the industry's largest production and distribution networks. We\'re grateful to be known as a company that cares deeply about our commitment to a culture of zero harm, ensuring product quality, supporting employee well-being and exposure across the mining value chain, and positively impacting the communities we serve.

Job Summary

The Mine/Production Supervisor is responsible for providing technical knowledge, operations experience, and management skills in the daily direction and performance of the safe, efficient, and quality work performed by mine operations. This role reports to the Mine Superintendent and will be responsible and capable, on a daily basis, of obtaining short and long-term objectives, modifying shift plans to maximize resources, and leading the mining team in all safety and production-related matters. This includes supporting and directing personnel in the production cycle, accurately completing shift logs, and performing routine safety audits and workplace inspections. The Mine/Production Supervisor must be flexible to the changing needs of the surface operations and the underground mining operation.

Please note that this role involves rotating through all three shifts (days, afternoons, midnights) and regularly working overtime (extended hours, weekends).

Duties and Responsibilities

The Mine/Production Supervisor will provide leadership to a unionized labour force of approximately 10 to 25 direct reports, working on a rotating shift in the Mine or Rock Salt Mill department. This role places emphasis on promoting workplace safety and the efficient production of rock salt, while ensuring that production meets acceptable levels of product quality. The ideal candidate will consistently demonstrate strong leadership skills that inspires, motivates, and promotes teamwork within the Production department, as well as with other departments within the company.

The Mine/Production Supervisor may also be responsible for maintenance employees on certain shifts, as deemed necessary.

This role has the following major tasks, responsibilities and key accountabilities associated with it:

Occupational Health & Safety:

• To ensure their team operates in a safe manner, and in adherence with all company occupational health and safety policies
• To ensure employees have access to the required training and development for the safe and efficient operation of the mine
• To promote and maintain adequate levels of housekeeping
• To fulfill the following additional Safety-related responsibilities:
• To review and ensure incident investigations and reports are completed according to acceptable standards and in a timely fashion (OII report – immediately, near miss and first aid – 24 hours).
• To monitor and ensure workplace planned safety inspections and tests related to the department are completed according to acceptable standards and in a timely fashion.
• To monitor and ensure corrective actions related to the department and stemming from incident investigations, workplace inspections, safety audits and JOHS recommendations are responded to and completed in a timely fashion.
• To promote the goal of 100 percent attendance at monthly department safety meetings
• To provide timely feedback to all employees and to fulfill all performance management duties, which includes providing direction, feedback, coaching, counselling, and discipline (where required). Performance management activities should include employee performance with respect to health and safety, production, quality, and attendance at work
• To ensure proper documentation of all relevant information, including performance feedback, in employee files
• To provide direction to team members on a day-to-day basis, based on the priorities outlined by the Production Manager or other members of the Management team
• To ensure effective communication with team members, through the implementation of daily huddle board meetings. This includes the communication of new company initiatives, and to represent the company and support these initiatives to ensure their successful implementation
• To operate in line with the company’s policies and procedures, including the current collective agreement

Production Operations:

• To plan workforce requirements, in conjunction with the Production Manager, to ensure adequate coverage to meet the needs of the overall production schedule.
• To guide the team in execution of the Production plan to the best of his/her ability, and to meet production and quality targets as set out by the Management team.
• To adjust the production plan, when required, to ensure acceptable levels or product quality
• To make production decisions with the use of “throughput thinking”, with the goal of meeting the needs of the Mine’s internal customer, the Rock Salt Mill.
• To ensure proper utilization of machinery and equipment, including timely communication of breakdowns, and rotation of equipment to maintenance in adherence with the planned PM schedule.

• To maintain close liaison with quality assurance staff to ensure quality meets or exceeds customers’ expectations.

• To be an advocate of continuous improvement and a catalyst for change, including the effective management of the change process
• To analyze, evaluate, and communicate ideas for improvement to the production process
• To provide support for special projects, as required
• Ensures the EMS policy and procedures are properly communicated to employees, visitors and contractors.
• Ensures proper maintenance and calibration of critical monitoring and measurement devices.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Minimum of a High school diploma, with some post-secondary education preferred
• 3-5 years supervising unionized employees
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience in basic computer applications is essential
• Previous experience in a leadership position is considered an asset
• Experience with Process Improvement and/or Project Management is a considered an asset