Supv, Mfg Ops

Smurfit-Westrock; Calgary; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development

Sustainability focus

Global company

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock Canada is seeking an experienced manufacturing leader to manage plant employees and ensure production schedules are met with safety and quality as top priorities.

The role involves coordinating operations, ensuring adherence to cost targets, on-time delivery, and continuous improvement across shifts. You will lead performance reviews, mentor staff, and drive safety and efficiency initiatives across the facility.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED with 3–4 years of related experience.
• Proven experience in operations, manufacturing, or supply chain.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Proven track record of effective problem solving.
• Ability to embrace continuous improvement.
• Strong collaboration and teaming skills with stakeholders across functions.
• Ability to coach and train employees.
• Ability to be an on-shift resource for troubleshooting problems in the process as well as maintenance issues.
• Ability to make independent, effective decisions.
• Possess the ability to be a self-directed team player.
• Flexibility to work multiple shifts.
• Proven leadership skills and an ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload.

Responsibilities

• Enforce plant safety regulations and encourage employees to become safety conscious.
• Manage manufacturing employees to include performance reviews and disciplinary actions.
• Make recommendations to improve the safety, environment, and health of the entire facility.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the shift with constant emphasis on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Monitor production activities to eliminate waste and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.
• Work with other team members to control and improve efficiencies, minimize labor overtime, downtime, and repair expenses.
• Control load factors and workflow to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools, and equipment.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Continuous improvement

Collaboration

Coaching

On-shift troubleshooting

Decision making

Self-directed

Team orientation

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

The Opportunity:

This role is accountable for managing plant employees to meet manufacturing and production schedules. The successful incumbent will ensure that all company standards and customer commitments (safety, quality, production, cost, on-time delivery) are met.

Other accountabilities include coordinating production operations and maintaining effective quality procedures and safety regulations for the facility.

This is a growth position that could lead to various upper management positions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Enforce plant safety regulations and encourage employees to become safety conscious.
• Manage manufacturing employees to include performance reviews and disciplinary actions.
• Make recommendations to improve the safety, environment, and health of the entire facility.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the shift with constant emphasis on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Monitor production activities to eliminate waste and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.
• Work with other team members to control and improve efficiencies, minimize labor overtime, downtime, and repair expenses.
• Control load factors and workflow to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools, and equipment.

How You Will Impact WestRock:

• Encourage plant safety regulations and encourage employees to become safety conscious.
• Build relationships with internal departments to gather information and data in support of continuous improvement projects.
• Working with the various teams to ensure a thorough understanding of each area in manufacturing.
• Support the plant in identifying and reaching KPIs.

What you Need to Succeed:

• High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalent with 3 to 4 years of related experience
• Proven experience in operations, manufacturing, or supply chain
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Proven track record of effective problem-solving
• Ability to embrace continuous improvement.
• Strong collaboration and teaming skills with stakeholders across functions
• Ability to coach and train employees
• Ability to be an on-shift resource for troubleshooting problems in the process as well as maintenance issues.
• Ability to make independent, effective decisions.
• Possess the ability to be a self-directed team player.
• Flexibility to work multiple shifts.
• Proven leadership skills and an ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload.

What We Offer:

• Corporate culture is based on integrity, respect, accountability, and excellence.
• Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities.
• A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety, and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.