**Position Title:**MDI Manager Coaldale

**Position Type:**Regular - Full-Time

**Grade:**Grade 06

**Requisition ID:**41601

MDI Manager

Coaldale, Alberta, Canada

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.

This position is responsible for engaging all stakeholders with the McCain Driving Impact (MDI) systems at the Coaldale site. This includes the rollout, execution, and sustainment of MDI related activities, processes, and plans.

Serves as a change agent and facilitator of the MDI processes. Identifies key result areas and assists in the development and facilitation of MDI events through the lenses of engagement.

What you’ll be doing.

• Engage MDI system leads, area leads, and front-line employees through coaching and positive reinforcement techniques.
• Provide the leadership and initiative to ensure the successful implementation and sustainment of MDI. Proactively manage change in a way to help ensure continuous improvement success.
• Learn and develop the key skills required to implement all DMS across the plant. Help create ownership and share results from process improvements.
• Lead, manage, and coordinate activities such as FIT events, training/education in various continuous improvement processes, etc. Be a teacher and facilitator of continuous improvement.
• Develop and utilize tools that will maximize the effectiveness of MDI and sustain them over time. This includes but is not limited to Digital MDI, OSI PI, Defect Logs, Centerlines, CID Routes and other related continuous improvement tools.
• Track and report KEY milestones and metrics related to plant MDI goals.
• Ensure processes and practices are in place to identify and share best practices with the plant and across the organization.
• Provide a professional work environment with internal and external customers. Must be able to effectively manage up, down, and across the organization and successfully build collaborative relations across the supply chain.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

What you’ll need to be successful.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• To be able to facilitate the collaborative examination of the possible outcomes of FIT events, focusing on safety, quality and productivity.
• Possess thorough knowledge of plant operations.
• To be able to consistently challenge continuous improvement teams to achieve superior results during a FIT event.
• Drive engagement through coaching and training during each DMS
• Work with the teams to set and achieve stretch goals for the event; encourage calculated risks based on facts
• Be an effective listener; able to ‘read’ the cues of his/her audience and adapt approach/message; encourage open communication and sharing ideas among the team members, ensuring that everyone has a voice; must be capable of selling ideas (both company and personal).
• Assemble teams with the right balance and expertise; foster growth of emerging leaders by identifying and coaching team leaders for events.
• Help the teams to analyze situations and break problems down into manageable parts; consider multiple solutions to a given problem; act only on facts/data.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

About the team.

We are currently looking for an MDI Manager located in Coaldale, Alberta. The successful candidate will report directly to the Coaldale plant manager.

About McCain.

Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

**We think big and plan ahead.**Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

**We act like owners.**Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Compensation Package*: $97,500.00 - $130,000.00* . CAD annually + Bonus Eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

***Benefits:***At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), pleaselet us know***,***and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy*, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled* here*.*

**Job Family:**Manufacturing

**Location(s):**CA - Canada : Alberta : Coaldale

**Company:**McCain Foods (Canada)