Production Supervisor - Afternoon Shift
Waterloo, ON$67k - $78kFull time - SalaryPosted 4d ago
About the role
Production Supervisor role overseeing afternoon shift operations in Sunrise Farms’ Sunrise Farms - Grand River Foods division, ensuring health and safety, quality, and continuous improvement on the production floor.
Responsibilities
- Supervise all aspects of production, ensuring appropriate Health and Safety controls and Good Manufacturing Practices
- Manage efficiencies, monitor quality and minimize production costs
- Troubleshoot problems and pro-actively prevent or minimize issues
- Provide timely coaching, feedback and support to Line Operators and Production Workers in a constructive and respectful manner
- Train, coach, develop and evaluate performance of production staff
- Liaise extensively on the production floor to build commitment and foster open communication between all parties
- Supervise and train crews, including planning manpower and work organization, managing absenteeism and conflict
- Participate and lead others through Root Cause analysis process
- Administer appropriate coaching, providing leadership guidance and continually develop employees in accordance with the needs of the department
- Implement a continuous improvement philosophy in all areas of operation
- Participate in JHSC initiatives and follow established Health and Safety policies (ensuring all JSA SOPs are signed off in a timely manner)
- Supports the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of all Quality Systems
- All other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Proven leadership, team building and interpersonal skills
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, co-workers and Managers
- Strong verbal and written as well as effective communication skills to lead, motivate, coach, mentor and resolve employee conflict
- Ability to accurately maintain detailed records
- Strong safety focus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Have 5+ years leadership or Supervisory experience
- Be able to work independently, as well as being a strong team player with good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Possession of Diploma or post-secondary education
- Reasonable mechanical aptitude
- Intermediate Computer Skills in Microsoft Office (such as word, excel, outlook, charting and graphing)
- Able and willing to work weekend OT when required
- Ability to assess and prioritize
- Ability to manage change and to react quickly to rapid turn-around requirements
Skills
Required:Leadership and team managementCommunicationSafety and complianceProblem-solving and root cause analysisPlanning and organizational skillsTechnical aptitude
Benefits
- Not specified in description
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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