Real Food for Real Kids ,Senior Production Manager Jobs in Canada

Lead (Set-Up),
Cooks, Porters

Hours: Full Time, from 5am – 1pm

Compensation:
• Competitive salary and RRSP matching
• Excellent benefits program, including: alternative and preventative
health treatments
• Inspiring work environment

Application Deadline: Applicants will be reviewed and interviewed on a
rolling basis. Final deadline is Sunday, June 7th, 2015 (11:59PM EST)

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

About Real Food for Real Kids:

Real Food for Real Kids (RFRK) is Canada’s leading healthy catering
company for kids in childcare centres, elementary schools and camps –
making the Great Place to Work list of Canada’s 100 Best Workplaces
for back-to-back years, winning awards of excellence with the Green
Toronto Awards and receiving the 2014 Regional Premier’s Award for
Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. RFRK prepares and delivers nutritious
and delicious hot lunches and snacks, made fresh-from-scratch for over
15,000 kids daily throughout the GTA. We focus on wholesome nutrition
and global flavours, while using as much local and organic ingredients
as practical. RFRK’s mission is to enable and inspire a lifetime of
healthy eating, and to have a rockin’ good time while doing it!

A glimpse at the role:

The Senior Production Manager works with all departments with the
objective of providing outstanding quality and service to our
customers. As a key member of the Operations Team the Senior
Production Manager delivers a superior level of strategic planning,
setting and maintaining the highest standards of respect for processes
and procedures, integrity and professionalism.

In this role, you’re responsible for being the conduit between the
people, the production areas and RFRK’s business objectives. In an
environment that focuses on continuous improvement, measuring success,
entrepreneurship, putting the wow-factor into our service and
incorporating fun, you are the one ensuring delicious food is cooked
perfectly and packed perfectly every day.

Some of the things you’ll get paid to do:

Manage Production
• Share responsibility for creating and maintaining a workplace
culture that engages and motivates RFRKers at all levels
• Create and revise systems and procedures by analyzing operating
practices, recordkeeping systems, control sheets, and budgetary and
personnel requirements, implementing change
• Develop and implement action plans to address the root causes of
failures and support continuous improvement initiatives to meet
current and future business requirements
• Manage relationships with internal/external customers, suppliers,
colleagues and support services to ensure achievement of targets

Manage Departmental Resources
• Manage departmental performance and provide progress reports as
scheduled; tracking and reporting key departmental metrics as
determined by the company goals
• Complete production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel for
afternoon shifts; establishing priorities; monitoring progress;
revising schedules; removing roadblocks
• Lead by example and role model RFRK’s core values

Execute External Safety Regulations
• Maintain compliance with the OHSA, JHSC recommendations or MOL work
orders, RFRK’s safety policy, GMP’s and HACCP

Quality and Inventory Control
• Ensure quality objectives are met including regular adherence to
GMP’s, performance of sanitation audits, food safety checks, and
product quality checks conducted according to policies
• Ensure inventory is tracked and documented according to health and
safety regulations

The things you can’t believe you’ll be getting paid to do:
• Have a hand in reshaping the way children, families, and educators
eat and perceive food
• Help our community embrace real food and foster new healthy eating habits
• Put your professional and personal strengths to work in a growing
and dynamic company

Yes, it sounds like a lot, but anything less wouldn’t interest you!
You see the alchemy of these responsibilities, and the chance to take
a fast-growing company (on a world-changing mission) to new heights as
too good to pass up.

Required Education and Experience:
• Minimum of 4 years of direct supervisory work experience in a food
production facility
• College diploma or University degree; or an equivalent combination
of related experience and education
• Intermediate understanding of Lean Management/Six Sigma
manufacturing principles and leadership applications within a
production environment
• Knowledge of HACCP and Provincial Safety Regulations
• Enforcement of good manufacturing practices (GMP’s)

Skills and Personal Attributes:
• Ability to communicate effectively and across multiple departments
• Ability to lead, motivate, coach, mentor and resolve employee conflicts
• Structured and self-directed approach to project work
• Ability to consistently meet targets and deadlines
• Ability to think critically, problem-solve, and make effective decisions
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Google Docs & Drive; ERP
system experience an asset
• Strong command of English language (written and verbal)
• Crazy good sense of humour and your work proves it

Nice-to-haves:
• Six Sigma Green belt
• Flexibility to cover alternate shifts as needed
• Restaurant Kitchen experience

To apply, go to http://bit.ly/1Ht1sNT

Please upload your résumé and cover letter, including salary
expectations, explaining why you’d be a great fit for this role!

RFRK is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage
applications from diverse backgrounds and communities.

No phone calls, please. We’ll contact applicants that fit the bill,
and invite them in for an interview.

Thanks for your interest in Real Food for Real Kids!