Plant manager

Plant Manager / Directeur d’usine (Bilingual)
Location: Gatineau, QC (Excellent 20-minute reverse-commute from downtown Ottawa)
Industry: Heavy Industrial / Infrastructure Materials Manufacturing
Position Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: $120,000 – $135,000/year (Depending on experience) + Comprehensive Corporate Benefits & RRSP Matching

About the Opportunity
Our client is an industry-leading, publicly traded North American manufacturer specializing in essential infrastructure materials. With a massive footprint across Canada and the US, they are known for long-term stability, exceptional safety standards, and robust corporate backing.

We are seeking a Bilingual Plant Manager (Directeur.trice d'usine) to take full operational and strategic ownership of their Gatineau industrial facility. Managing a dedicated site team of 15 personnel, you will lead daily production, maintenance, chemical inventory control, and logistics. This is a hands-on, high-accountability role perfect for a process-oriented leader who thrives in a heavy industrial setting and possesses strong labor relations skills.

Advantages
-Highly Competitive Compensation: $120k - $135k base salary + discretionary performance bonuses.
-Premier Benefits: Full medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short/long-term disability from day one.
-Retirement Security: Generous company-matched RRSP program.
-Location Advantage: Based on the eastern edge of Gatineau—ideal for avoiding major urban traffic corridors and highly accessible for Ontario-side commuters.

Responsibilities
Full Site Operations: Oversee all daily plant activities including product receiving, processing, plant maintenance, shipping/logistics, and strict quality control.
-Workforce & Labor Management: Lead, mentor, and coach a facility team of 15. Manage employee relations, performance, scheduling, and payroll approval within a unionized framework.
-Financial & Inventory Control: Oversee the plant’s operating budget, provide monthly/quarterly financial updates, manage capital project investments, and direct annual cyclical stock counts alongside auditors.
-EHS & Regulatory Compliance: Act as the ultimate site champion for health, safety, and environmental standards. Ensure absolute compliance with provincial and federal guidelines regarding dangerous goods handling and chemical preservation environmental protocols (WHMIS, TDG).

Qualifications
Experience: 5+ years of proven leadership or supervisory experience managing a production facility in a heavy industrial sector (e.g., building materials, wood products, chemical manufacturing, mining, forestry, or heavy industrial logistics).
-Bilingual Proficiency: Flawless professional fluency in both French and English is required. You will confidently manage local French-speaking operations and provincial bodies while reporting to and collaborating with multi-provincial corporate leadership in English.
-Labor Relations: Direct, hands-on experience navigating collective agreements and managing performance within a unionized environment.
-Safety-First Track Record: Strong familiarity with industrial safety management systems and high-risk regulatory compliance framework (knowledge of Quebec CNESST/Ministry of Labour guidelines is a strong asset).
-Education & Credentials: College diploma (DEC) or equivalent industrial field experience; a valid driver’s license with an excellent driving record.

Summary
Interested in learning more details?
Reach-Out to Hussein Hassen 514-632-9472
Email resume to [email protected]

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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