Section Manager

Mondelez International; Toronto; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food industry is seeking a Manufacturing Manager to oversee performance targets and ensure operational excellence. This role involves extensive leadership and operational duties, including developing budget plans and maintaining high safety standards. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree, at least three years of experience in a high-performance manufacturing environment, and proficiency in systems like SAP and MS Excel.

Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Experience in food, pharmaceutical, or automotive industry.
• LEAN Six Sigma certification an asset.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety, quality, cost, and delivery targets are achieved.
• Develop budgets and manage cost control in manufacturing.
• Support recruitment and development of team members.

Skills

Autonomous maintenance

Progressive maintenance

Total productive maintenance

Six Sigma

Team leadership

Interpersonal communication

Influencing skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

Job description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

This role helps ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery and line leadership in manufacturing, by leading a key line of the business (technical, system or organizational) to deliver results defined by the compelling business need of the site. You ensure that key business results are achieved and for developing others to ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery on the manufacturing line. Using a systematic approach, you use strategic thinking skills to ensure results are sustained over the long term.

How you will contribute

In your likely first managerial role, you will ensure that Mondelēz International’s safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets are achieved for the lines for which you are responsible by breaking down section targets into line and unit targets and ensuring that employees understand their individual performance goals related to the overall targets. In this role, you will also develop budgets and be responsible for costs control management, governance and compliance, loss elimination and workforce planning, including recruitment, retention, development, succession planning, and the identification of high potential team members. Without you, we would not be able to deliver high-quality snacks to our customers.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance (PM) Step 3 systems
• Maintaining equipment at basic conditions independently, including the execution of AM & PM (break-down maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
• Total productive maintenance and Six Sigma including qualification of AM steps 5-6, and PM step 3
• Leading line teams
• Handling challenging interpersonal situations tactfully
• Influencing people in a union environment
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and a good attention to detail

Additional Job Description

More about this role

Education:

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in engineering or business related.

Job requirements:

Minimum three (3) years of demonstrated leadership experience in a high-performance manufacturing, warehousing, and/or distribution work environment in food, pharmaceutical and/or automotive industry.

SAP experience and proficiency in MS Excel

LEAN Six Sigma certification an asset.

Flexible to support the core teams and direct reports in a 24/7 manufacturing facility.

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

Regular, Manufacturing core, Manufacturing