Top Benefits
About the role
Reports to: Director, Operations - Ingredients
Location: Teeswater, ON (Onsite)
Purpose:
Reporting to our Sr. Director, Operations - Ingredients the successful candidate will manage the daily operational requirements of Bulk Hauling department to ensure exceptional customer service levels are maintained. You will manage the Bulk Hauling supervisors while providing daily support on tasks and projects relating to the bulk hauling fleet. You will contribute to the overall success of the team by advancing the use of new technologies and functionalities as appropriate. You will review current processes and procedures and suggest improvements to increase cost efficiencies. You will be responsible for building a culture of safety and compliance along with engagement and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily bulk hauling department processes and accountabilities
- Implement strategy and business plans to drive efficiencies and reduce costs in all aspects of transportation while focusing on building a culture of safety and compliance
- Optimize routing carriers for Gay Lea shipments, developing service requirements
- Liaise and negotiate with suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and customers with respect to transportation rates and agreements
- Establish goals and priorities to manage the activities and work of your team, provide feedback, and ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner according to company policies and procedures
- Conduct monthly budget analysis and identify opportunities
- Recommend, develop and implement enhancements and improvements to departmental policies and procedures
- Provide updates to stakeholders on load availability, ETA’s, driver and or equipment issues
- Compile and report performance data, maintain equipment service records, licensing registrations and driver profile records in compliance with government regulations
- Develop processes, monitor, and measure all inbound and outbound orders through reports and systems while maintaining Gay Lea Foods objectives and ensure timely delivery of goods
- Analyze KPI results, set targets for team members and collaborate with cross functional teams to support common goals
- Conduct performance reviews, manage team effectively, train, evaluate, motivate, delegate team daily activities
- Miscellaneous administrative tasks and projects
Requirements
- 3-5 years of proven success leading salaried and hourly employees in an operations environment (logistics, warehousing, manufacturing) is required
- Post secondary Business Degree education is considered an asset but not required
- Demonstrated leadership, problem solving and organization skills
- High level of autonomy; demonstrated excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills
- Strong ability to positively influence partners and colleagues, able to motivate others, negotiate effectively and interact professionally with internal and external stakeholders
Gay Lea Foods is a leading Canadian dairy co-operative renowned for producing high-quality, nutritious dairy products that Canadian families love and trust. From farm to table, our 1,200 farmer members in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 1,200 employees across four provinces, work together to nourish communities through award-winning brands including Gay Lea, Nordica, Salerno, Bothwell Cheese, and more. As part of its deeply rooted, balanced commitment to people, profit, and planet, Gay Lea Foods proudly invests one percent of pre-tax earnings back into Canadian communities through a national food security partnership with Second Harvest, and the community-building efforts of the Gay Lea Foundation. To learn more, visit gayleafoods.com.
Gay Lea Foods is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity in our workplace.
Reasonable accommodation is available upon request throughout our recruitment and selection process.
Thank you for your interest in Gay Lea Foods.
Wishing you all the best with your career search!
About Gay Lea Foods
With our roots on the farm, Gay Lea Foods has grown to become a leader in the Canadian dairy industry and the largest dairy co-operative in Ontario, with members on 1,300 dairy farms in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 4,200 producer and investor stakeholders. Our dedication to innovation and the development of high quality products has allowed us to respond to consumers’ evolving tastes and grow the market for Canadian cow and, more recently, goat milk. We are a Canadian success story – and that story is far from over. Moving forward, Gay Lea Foods is poised to seize and create even more opportunities for sustainable, long-term growth in the Canadian dairy industry as we expand beyond our provincial borders, grow our foods and ingredients business, and continue to invest in innovative and industry-leading products.
As much as we evolve, however, we remain a dairy co-operative, owned by dairy farmers. From our farms and production facilities, to our distribution networks and employee ideologies, we embrace and act with co-operative-inspired values, understanding there is no shortcut to quality or success. It takes commitment, passion and collaboration.
Those are the things we’re made of and we’re proud to share our story.
Just like the milk that comes from our farms, so too are Gay Lea Foods’ products and values born on the farm.
Top Benefits
About the role
Reports to: Director, Operations - Ingredients
Location: Teeswater, ON (Onsite)
Purpose:
Reporting to our Sr. Director, Operations - Ingredients the successful candidate will manage the daily operational requirements of Bulk Hauling department to ensure exceptional customer service levels are maintained. You will manage the Bulk Hauling supervisors while providing daily support on tasks and projects relating to the bulk hauling fleet. You will contribute to the overall success of the team by advancing the use of new technologies and functionalities as appropriate. You will review current processes and procedures and suggest improvements to increase cost efficiencies. You will be responsible for building a culture of safety and compliance along with engagement and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily bulk hauling department processes and accountabilities
- Implement strategy and business plans to drive efficiencies and reduce costs in all aspects of transportation while focusing on building a culture of safety and compliance
- Optimize routing carriers for Gay Lea shipments, developing service requirements
- Liaise and negotiate with suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and customers with respect to transportation rates and agreements
- Establish goals and priorities to manage the activities and work of your team, provide feedback, and ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner according to company policies and procedures
- Conduct monthly budget analysis and identify opportunities
- Recommend, develop and implement enhancements and improvements to departmental policies and procedures
- Provide updates to stakeholders on load availability, ETA’s, driver and or equipment issues
- Compile and report performance data, maintain equipment service records, licensing registrations and driver profile records in compliance with government regulations
- Develop processes, monitor, and measure all inbound and outbound orders through reports and systems while maintaining Gay Lea Foods objectives and ensure timely delivery of goods
- Analyze KPI results, set targets for team members and collaborate with cross functional teams to support common goals
- Conduct performance reviews, manage team effectively, train, evaluate, motivate, delegate team daily activities
- Miscellaneous administrative tasks and projects
Requirements
- 3-5 years of proven success leading salaried and hourly employees in an operations environment (logistics, warehousing, manufacturing) is required
- Post secondary Business Degree education is considered an asset but not required
- Demonstrated leadership, problem solving and organization skills
- High level of autonomy; demonstrated excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills
- Strong ability to positively influence partners and colleagues, able to motivate others, negotiate effectively and interact professionally with internal and external stakeholders
Gay Lea Foods is a leading Canadian dairy co-operative renowned for producing high-quality, nutritious dairy products that Canadian families love and trust. From farm to table, our 1,200 farmer members in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 1,200 employees across four provinces, work together to nourish communities through award-winning brands including Gay Lea, Nordica, Salerno, Bothwell Cheese, and more. As part of its deeply rooted, balanced commitment to people, profit, and planet, Gay Lea Foods proudly invests one percent of pre-tax earnings back into Canadian communities through a national food security partnership with Second Harvest, and the community-building efforts of the Gay Lea Foundation. To learn more, visit gayleafoods.com.
Gay Lea Foods is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity in our workplace.
Reasonable accommodation is available upon request throughout our recruitment and selection process.
Thank you for your interest in Gay Lea Foods.
Wishing you all the best with your career search!
About Gay Lea Foods
With our roots on the farm, Gay Lea Foods has grown to become a leader in the Canadian dairy industry and the largest dairy co-operative in Ontario, with members on 1,300 dairy farms in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 4,200 producer and investor stakeholders. Our dedication to innovation and the development of high quality products has allowed us to respond to consumers’ evolving tastes and grow the market for Canadian cow and, more recently, goat milk. We are a Canadian success story – and that story is far from over. Moving forward, Gay Lea Foods is poised to seize and create even more opportunities for sustainable, long-term growth in the Canadian dairy industry as we expand beyond our provincial borders, grow our foods and ingredients business, and continue to invest in innovative and industry-leading products.
As much as we evolve, however, we remain a dairy co-operative, owned by dairy farmers. From our farms and production facilities, to our distribution networks and employee ideologies, we embrace and act with co-operative-inspired values, understanding there is no shortcut to quality or success. It takes commitment, passion and collaboration.
Those are the things we’re made of and we’re proud to share our story.
Just like the milk that comes from our farms, so too are Gay Lea Foods’ products and values born on the farm.