Production Supervisor, Night Shift

Job Purpose

Are you a people-first manufacturing leader who thrives in a fast-paced production environment? At Unilever, we're looking for a Shift Lead (Production Supervisor) to help drive world-class performance at our Rexdale Dressings Facility, home to iconic food brands enjoyed by millions every day.

In this role, you will lead and inspire frontline teams while ensuring excellence in safety, quality, productivity, and cost performance. Using Unilever's World Class Manufacturing (WCM) framework, you'll play a critical role in shaping operational performance, developing talent, and driving continuous improvement across the site.

You'll join a collaborative leadership team that believes in doing work that matters, for our people, our consumers, and the planet.

Because at Unilever, we don't just offer jobs. We create opportunities to make an impact.

Responsibilities

Lead Operations Excellence

• Provide leadership and direction for manufacturing operations during your assigned shift, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production.
• Drive performance across key metrics including safety, quality, productivity, service, and cost.
• Coordinate staffing, scheduling, labor planning, and shift coverage to meet production requirements.
• Serve as the key operational leader during off-shift hours, ensuring timely issue resolution and effective decision-making.

Build a Strong Safety Culture

• Champion a culture where safety comes first.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, company, and plant safety requirements.
• Provide coaching, training, and support to ensure employees understand and follow safe work practices.

Develop and Lead People

• Lead, coach, and develop hourly production employees to achieve individual and team success.
• Facilitate training programs including Safety, Health & Environment (SHE), Quality, WCM, and other operational initiatives.
• Communicate site goals, business priorities, and performance expectations clearly and consistently.
• Foster an inclusive, engaged, and accountable work environment.

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Lead and participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on cost reduction, efficiency gains, waste reduction, and yield improvements.
• Support the achievement of plant performance targets and strategic business objectives.
• Champion World Class Manufacturing principles and ensure sustainable results from improvement projects.

Support Quality & Food Safety Excellence

• Ensure compliance with GMP, HACCP, FSSC 22000, and all food safety requirements.
• Support internal and external audits and implement corrective actions as required.
• Drive adherence to quality standards to consistently deliver products that consumers trust.

Partner with Union Leadership

• Build and maintain positive union-management relationships.
• Administer the Collective Agreement fairly and consistently while proactively resolving workplace issues.

Manage Business Performance

• Monitor and manage fixed and variable operating costs.
• Optimize labor utilization and production resources to maximize operational efficiency.
• Support site security, workforce planning, and overall operational readiness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of leadership experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success leading teams in a fast-paced production setting.
• Experience building and sustaining a strong safety culture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in food, beverage, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or highly regulated manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of World Class Manufacturing (WCM), Lean Manufacturing, TPM, or Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Experience with high-speed packaging or processing operations.
• Working knowledge of GMP, HACCP, and food safety systems.
• Experience operating in a unionized environment.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate teams.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $71,000 to 106,600. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs. 

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible. 

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible. 

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverage for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents. 

Unilever uses artificial intelligence tools in the hiring process to screen or assess applicants. However, hiring decisions will be made by the line manager and in accordance with applicable employment standards and human rights laws. All information collected, used or disclosed during the application and interview process will be subject to Unilever’s Privacy Policy

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Unilever Canada is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national or ethnic origin, marital status, family status, disability, genetic characteristics, and a conviction for which a pardon has been granted.

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Unilever Canada est une organisation engagé à la diversité et à l'inclusion pour stimuler nos résultats d'affaires et créer un meilleur avenir chaque jour pour nos employés, les consommateurs globaux, les partenaires et les communautés. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifiée nous permet de faire correspondre nos ambitions de croissance et de stimuler l'inclusion dans l'entreprise. Tous les candidats qualifiés recevront la considération pour un emploi sans égard à la race, la couleur, la religion, le sexe, l'orientation sexuelle, l'identité ou l'expression de genre, l'âge, l'origine nationale ou ethnique, l'état matrimonial, la situation familiale, l'invalidité, les caractéristiques génétique, et une condamnation pour laquelle un pardon a été accordée.

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