Job Description

Job description and requirements

About this opportunity
Reporting to the site General Manager, the Operations Manager provides strategic leadership for the Production Management, Logistics, and Maintenance teams. This role works closely with other functional leaders across the business to drive growth, safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and service performance.

What you will do

• Provide experienced leadership, coaching, guidance, and direction to the Operations Team.
• Drive daily management of safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and cost goals through the implementation of total productive maintenance, standard work deployment, production scheduling, development, and performance management.
• Champion and manage an environment of teamwork and continuous improvement.
• Establish targets, both financial and non-financial, with clear work plans, and hold managers accountable for achievement.
• Analyze and manage operational data to ensure organic growth and alignment of departmental priorities.
• Drive increased effectiveness and efficiency through Lean Manufacturing principles and initiatives.
• Ensure the KPIs and key goals are achieved, and that manufacturing capacity meets the sales plan.
• Utilize the company's performance management process for all direct reports, including providing coaching and development opportunities that will allow each individual's potential to be maximized and used effectively.
• Support new product launches and innovation.
• Support training activities to ensure workplace flexibility, robust operational procedures, and high quality.
• Implement and sustain a strong preventive maintenance culture, integrated into the foundational daily management system.
• Identify and implement strategic opportunities to drive cost reductions/productivity improvements in manufacturing operations.
• Ensure a safe working environment consistent with WSBC and TC regulations.
• Ensure adherence to environmental regulations and good manufacturing practices.

• Understand and adhere to all requirements of commercial contracts.
• Ensure that all business matters are conducted in compliance with company policies.

What you have to offer

• 10+ years' experience in a technically oriented manufacturing environment; 5+ years managing teams.
• Flexographic printing industry experience a plus.
• A strong focus on exceptional leadership and coaching; a verifiable track record of building teams in a manufacturing environment preferably in operations and maintenance.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written).

• Ability to work with a tenured and unionized workforce.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Improvement tools and techniques along with experience and demonstrated sustained results.
• Experience analyzing metrics to identify and implement process improvements.
• A thorough understanding of the inter-relationship between manufacturing, technical, materials, quality and purchasing with exposure in all of these areas
• Demonstrated safety leadership, knowledge, and experience.
• Able to identify cost saving opportunities in production management, inventory management, machine productivity, and labor cost reduction.
• Familiarity and working knowledge of GFSI.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work on multiple priorities.
• Ability to work with customers, suppliers, union leadership, and employees at every level of the organization.

What we have to offer

• Opportunity to be part of a dynamic and highly motivating work environment where you can develop your potential and launch an exciting career.
• Development opportunities where your input makes a difference. Competitive compensation package, pension and flexible benefits that are customizable to you and your family needs.
• Employee perks such as discounts from suppliers on various products and services such as insurance, wireless bundles, travel, and much more.

TC Transcontinental, Making Impressions Count
TC Transcontinental is a leader in flexible packaging in North America, and Canada's largest printer. The Corporation is also the leading Canadian French-language educational publishing group. For over 40 years, TC Transcontinental's story has been one of innovation and transformation to meet our customers' evolving needs. Our strong family values, entrepreneurial spirit and long-term vision have always been at the heart of our success. With our 3 business sectors of Packaging, Print and Media, we continue to optimize, transform and grow while making impressions that count!
TC Transcontinental Packaging brings a distinctive blend of Art, Science and Technology to create flexible packaging that preserves our customers' products and accentuates their brands on the store shelf. The Packaging Sector has over 4,000 employees and 25 facilities worldwide specializing in extrusion, lamination, printing and converting of plastic products.
We share the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's vision of a circular economy for plastic, where plastic never becomes waste and have committed, by 2025, for 100% of our plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable. And most recently, we joined the United Nations Global Compact - a voluntary initiative of signatory companies committing to social responsibilities around human rights, labor standards and environmental protection. You will join a high-performing team that is dedicated to sustainability and passionate about our people, operations, communities and products.

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Job Function

Operations

Full/Part-Time

Full-time

Job status

Regular

Sector

TC Transcontinental Packaging