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- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience level
- Senior · 5+ years
- Minimum education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Apply by
- Nov 4, 2026
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
Job summary
The Plant Superintendent oversees daily production operations at the Abbotsford facility to ensure quality, safety, and efficiency. They lead the production team to meet business metrics while maintaining compliance with regulatory and corporate standards.
Job details
Job Summary: Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Plant Superintendent is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day order fulfillment activities at the Abbotsford facility while maintaining efficient production in desired quality and quantity. This position leads the Plant Production Team in achieving key performance indicators for safety, environment, quality, customer service and cost. Key Responsibilities: Demonstrates leadership to production supervisors and hourly employees to ensure consistent quality of work. Oversees production operations assuring quality and adherence to production specifications to meet customer expectations and business objectives. Accountable to achieve the assigned business metrics including yield, labour efficiency, sanitation and overhead expenses. Ensures the fulfillment of customer orders within the specifications. Maintains effective communication of expectations and goals throughout the plant environment. Accountable for a safe working environment through the development of strategies focused on accident reduction as well as energy and waste minimization. Ensure compliance to all OHS and environmental regulatory and corporate standards. Investigate and identify root causes of any non-compliance. Partners with Human Resources on all aspects of employee and labour relations Requirements: A degree in business administration or engineering discipline or a minimum of 5 years of experience in the meat processing industry demonstrating increasing responsibility and success in various roles, or equivalent combination of experience and training. Proven experience in, and ability to manage within the terms and conditions of the collective agreement(s) and corporate human resources policies. Knowledge of computer applications, including work processing and spreadsheets.
What you’ll do
The Plant Superintendent oversees daily production operations at the Abbotsford facility to ensure quality, safety, and efficiency. They lead the production team to meet business metrics while maintaining compliance with regulatory and corporate standards.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a degree in business or engineering, or possess at least 5 years of experience in the meat processing industry. Proven ability to manage within collective agreements and corporate policies is required.
Listed skills
- Operational Efficiency · Preferred
- Budgeting · Preferred
- Quality assurance · Preferred
- Regulatory Compliance · Preferred
- Production Management · Preferred
- Leadership · Preferred
- Safety Compliance · Preferred
- Data analysis · Preferred
- Communication · Preferred
- Process Improvement · Preferred
Other relevant skills
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- Production Management
- Leadership
- Quality Assurance
- Safety Compliance
- Meat Processing
- Labor Relations
- Budgeting
- Process Improvement
- Regulatory Compliance
- Communication
- Strategic Planning
- Team Management
- Data Analysis
- Sanitation Management
- Operational Efficiency
- Business Metrics
- Business Objectives
- Effective Communication
- Business Administration
- Spreadsheets
- Customer Service
- Order Fulfillment Management
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Operations
- Sanitation
- Waste Minimization
Job areas
- Manufacturing
- Management & Leadership
- Food & Beverage
- Engineering
- Plant Superintendent
- Production Plant Foreman
- Manufacturing Supervisors
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
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