Production Lead - Direct Glaze (Evenings)

UNAVAILABLE; Dryden; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead to oversee and empower teams in a dynamic manufacturing environment. In this role, you will provide first-level direction, ensuring safety and quality standards while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. You will engage with employees, resolve issues, and coordinate daily activities to meet production goals. Join a family-owned company that values its team members and offers unique benefits, including a wellbeing account and profit sharing. If you are passionate about leadership and want to make an impact, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

$300 annual wellbeing account

Better Living Day

Annual profit sharing

Organized volunteer opportunities

Financial support during hardships

Qualifications

• Previous management or coordination experience is preferred.
• Ability to engage and empower team members effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-level direction and supervision to employees.
• Coordinate department activities to maintain safety and quality standards.
• Monitor and adjust processes to ensure product flow.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Job Overview

Reporting to a supervisor, the Lead provides first-level direction and hour-to-hour supervision, giving work assignments and checking the work of employees. The Lead knows the processes and how to get work completed. Coordinates department activities to maintain standards of safety, quality, delivery and production. The Lead assists the supervisor with leadership of the department in order to meet company goals and objectives.

Highlights of your role

• Engages and empowers work cells
• Executes strategies as set by Supervisor
• Coaches operators to elevate performance and effectiveness
• Encourage and motivate employees
• Resolves employee issues as they arise
• Hold employees accountable for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Production performance measures
• Overseeing the manufacturing processes
• Understands department’s production area opportunities and challenges
• Plan and communicate daily crew assignments, monitor job rotation, ensure training is provided
• Monitor and adjust process to ensure even product flow
• Daily management of work cells to meet metrics goals and department metrics
• Coordinate work to meet Delivery objectives
• Workload Balancing to ensure even flowing process - labor
• Responsible for cross training to enable labor movement
• Plan and communicate crewing and job assignments
• Reinforce and implement improvements and waste elimination initiatives
• Identify and communicate obstructions to meeting daily goals
• Ensure all safety policies & practices are followed

You're a good fit if you have (or if you can)

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Previous management or coordination experience

We invite you to See Yourself at Marvin

From people to products, Marvin is committed to creating better ways of living. When you join this family-owned and -led window and door company, you belong to a community full of opportunities.

For more than a century, we’ve been at the forefront of designing, building, and engineering premium, award-winning products. Today, Marvin is also proud to have been named a Top Large Employer by Forbes Magazine two years in a row, in 2024 and 2025. With operations in 19 cities across North America, we manufacture Marvin’s quality products, including Infinity Replacement Windows and Doors, and TruStile Doors.

Together, we uphold our values and foster a culture where safety and the wellbeing of our people comes first. We take a better living approach with benefits to support you at work and beyond. From day one, you will enjoy health insurance, paid holidays, paid parental leave, a 401(k) retirement savings match and more!

Some of our unique and most popular benefits include:

• $300 annual wellbeing account to spend on what helps you feel happy + healthy
• Better Living Day! (a paid day off to go have some fun)
• Annual profit sharing – recognizing everyone’s contribution to Marvin’s success
• Giving at Marvin – participate in organized volunteer opportunities
• Brighter Days Fund – financial support from your colleagues and the Marvin family during personal hardships

Join the more than 8,000 Marvin team members to experience these benefits and more. Apply today!

Marvin is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee. Accommodation may be made to enable an individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the position. Any employment offer depends on completing a background check and drug screen to company standards.