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Production Supervisor, Contract
@ Redpath Sugar Ltd
Belleville, Ontario
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Overview
Redpath Sugar is hiring a contract Production Supervisor for about three months at its Belleville blending and packaging plant. The role oversees packaging operations, directly supervises up to 30 unionized employees on rotating shifts including regular Saturdays, and owns safety, quality and cost performance. Pay is stated as $59,500 to $109,500 with the rate depending on qualifications and experience.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee packaging operations and line performance
- Ensure health, safety and food safety compliance
- Plan production, materials and schedules
- Lead continuous improvement and root cause analysis
- Supervise up to 30 unionized employees on rotating shifts
Requirements summary:
- Minimum 5 years industrial supervisory experience or demonstrated leadership
- College or university degree, technical or engineering focus preferred
- Lean and structured problem-solving experience an asset
- High-speed packaging equipment experience desired
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
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- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Manufacturing & production |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Management experience | 5+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | overtime, weekends |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Plant or factory, Office |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Technical, Engineering |
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Redpath Sugar Ltd
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
Job description
Redpath Sugar is part of the ASR Group, the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar.
The Redpath Belleville plant is a blending and packaging operation producing a variety of sugar containing products for customers in Canada and the U.S. The plant operates state of the art high speed mixing and packaging systems supported by high level safety, quality and logistics systems.
Overview
The Production Supervisor is responsible for assisting in the oversight of all blending & packaging operations to maintain optimal plant performance. This role ensures full compliance with safety, environmental, and quality policies and procedures for direct reports. This position will directly supervise up to 30 unionized employees on rotating shifts, including regular Saturday shifts. This is a contract opportunity for approximately 3 months.
Detailed Roles & Responsibilities
The Redpath Belleville plant is a blending and packaging operation producing a variety of sugar containing products for customers in Canada and the U.S. The plant operates state of the art high speed mixing and packaging systems supported by high level safety, quality and logistics systems.
Overview
The Production Supervisor is responsible for assisting in the oversight of all blending & packaging operations to maintain optimal plant performance. This role ensures full compliance with safety, environmental, and quality policies and procedures for direct reports. This position will directly supervise up to 30 unionized employees on rotating shifts, including regular Saturday shifts. This is a contract opportunity for approximately 3 months.
Detailed Roles & Responsibilities
- Accountable for the health and safety of all employees in the plant. Is responsible to ensure that all operations are safe and that employees work in compliance with established work practices and procedures. Interacts with and participates in the Joint Health and Safety Committee when required.
- Plans the production, materials, and schedules for the packaging lines to meet customer service, cost, maintenance and production standards.
- Ensures that equipment is operating properly and efficiently by reviewing the processes in place to support the packaging KPIs, in particular cost, OEE, conformance to plan, quality and delivery. Identifies and implements improvements in the processes to achieve shift targets.
- Leads continuous improvement problem-solving sessions to action improvement opportunities through root cause analysis. Is a trained facilitator of the 5 step CI process
- Ensures that the quality of finished products meets Redpath’s and Customer requirements and that all food safety, GMP and housekeeping standards are maintained at all times. Participates in the investigation of customer complaints and identifies corrective action.
- Ability to identify problems on the packaging floor, make quick decisions to resolve them to support the plant goals.
- Oversees training programs to employees on safety, quality, operations and other areas as required.
- Maintains all required department documentation, logs, files and reports and leads regular reviews of plant and operations performance.
- College or University graduate with technical or engineering focus preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years Supervisory experience leading teams in an Industrial setting or demonstrated leadership and supervisory skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of structured problem solving (CI), Lean experience an asset.
- Experience with high-speed packaging equipment desired.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook MS Office skills required.
- Professional communication with internal and external contacts through telephone and e-mail communications is essential.
- College or University graduate with technical or engineering focus preferred.
- Oversees overtime and vacation schedules for hourly employees. Manage the packaging labour to achieve the approved budget.
- Manages the packaging materials costs and ensures compliance with the BOMs and identifies and implements improvements to reduce packaging materials costs.
- Redpath Sugar Belleville Facility
- Candidates will take part in multiple interviews, and other testing as required as part of the recruitment and assessment process.
- $59,500.00 to $109,500.00
- The pay rate for the successful candidate will depend on the candidate’s qualifications and prior experience.
- This is a temporary vacant position.
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