Production Manager Canada

Frulact; Canada; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Frulact in Kingston, Ontario, is seeking a Production Manager to lead a 50‑person production team. The role focuses on quality, safety, and continuous improvement, working with Quality, Maintenance, RD, and Logistics teams to ensure excellence in daily operations.

Ideal candidates have a college diploma or university degree and at least 3 years in similar roles, with strong MS Office skills and the ability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Education: College Diploma or University Degree.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in similar roles.
• Proficient with MS Office tools.
• Ability to work under high pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Staff control and management across production lines.
• Ensure effective production functioning and high quality output.
• Coordinate work across departments (Quality, Maintenance, RD, Logistics, Customer Service).
• Manage production documents for approvals and HR communication.
• Participate in organoleptic tasting and HACCP/OPRP compliance.
• Monitor production efficiency and daily/weekly reporting.
• Assist in budget preparation and quarterly budget analysis.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects.

Education

College Diploma or University Degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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Frulact is an international business group, founded in Oporto, Portugal in 1987. Currently, we are positioned as a top-ranked innovative player in the supply of added-value ingredients for the food and beverage industry, focusing on fruit preparations, plant-based dairy alternatives, liquid flavors, and other specialty ingredients.

We are a team of almost 900 people in full growth with factories located in Europe (Portugal, France, Germany and Switzerland), North America (Canada and USA) and Africa (Morocco and South Africa).

We are looking for a Production Manager to join our team in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The production manager in Kingston will oversee our production team of 50 employees. Working closely with our Quality, Maintenance, RD, Logistics and Customer Service teams. With a main focus on quality, health and safety and continuous improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Staff control and management;
• Responsible for the effective functioning and production quality;
• Coordination of the different departments work;
• Controlling the Production staff documents for additional work validation and for service communication; and sending those documents to the Human Resources department;
• Be part of the daily organoleptic tasting of the products;
• Monitoring Industrial Tests and CCP’s;
• Increase / enhance improvements in productivity / production efficiency;
• Control of line information boards / control of daily production efficiency;
• Participation in the preparation of the annual budget;
• Participation in the weekly analysis of the production efficiency reporting;
• Participation in the quarterly analysis of the factory's budget deviation, and assessment of its performance;
• Should ensure compliance of the OPRP’S and PRP’S throughout the facility;
• Member of the HACCP Team;
• Receiving invoices and planning production;
• Incorporation of reprocessable products;
• Providing feedback to R&D regarding the product control panels;
• Validating raw materials, temperatures, and flows of industrial tests;
• Participating in projects of continuous improvement;

PROFILE

• Education: College Diploma or University Degree;
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience, in similar roles;
• Good knowledge working with MS Office tools;
• Must be able to work in a high pressure, fast-pacedenvironment,work effectively both independently and within a team.