Plant Operations Leader - Recycling & Glass Processing

Emterra Group; Niagara Falls; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Emterra Group seeks an experienced Operations Manager to lead the Niagara Material Recovery Facility and Niagara Ecoglass operations. You will oversee production, safety, quality, maintenance, logistics, inventory, and people leadership to drive profitability and continuous improvement.

You will manage budgets, monitor performance, and collaborate with internal partners to grow the Niagara Ecoglass program while ensuring compliance with all regulations.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of progressive experience leading plant, production, processing, packaging, logistics, or similar operations.
• Supervising employees in a fast-paced industrial environment; unionized setting preferred.
• Working knowledge of OH&S requirements and safety leadership.
• Experience with production planning, quality control, inventory, logistics, preventive maintenance, and CI.
• Financial and analytical capability including budgeting, cost control and variance analysis.
• Strong judgement, organization and problem-solving; balance safety, people, customer, quality and production priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and ability to learn operational systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead people and labour relations: recruit, onboard, schedule, coach, and develop staff; manage performance; administer the collective agreement.
• Drive safe operations: safety leadership, training compliance, PPE, inspections, safety meetings; support JHSC.
• Manage production: plan and coordinate receiving, processing, packaging, storage, and shipment to meet targets.
• Protect product quality: establish controls, audit materials, maintain packaging standards, ensure inventory accuracy.
• Optimize reliability: coordinate maintenance, review equipment reports, reduce downtime.
• Own financial results: develop budgets, monitor results, identify variances, implement corrective actions.

Skills

People leadership

Safety leadership

Operations management

Budgeting

Data analysis

Communication

Excel

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Emterra Group seeks an experienced Operations Manager to lead the Niagara Material Recovery Facility and Niagara Ecoglass operations. You will oversee production, safety, quality, maintenance, logistics, inventory, and people leadership to drive profitability and continuous improvement.

You will manage budgets, monitor performance, and collaborate with internal partners to grow the Niagara Ecoglass program while ensuring compliance with all regulations.