Shift Supervisor / Lead Hand

Shift: Evenings, 2 pm – 10 pm

La Cocina Foods is currently hiring hard-working, success-driven Shift Supervisors / Lead Hands looking for a long-term career in the unique world of food production. The successful candidate will join the La Cocina production team in Ste. Anne, MB and help produce the world’s best corn tortillas and tortilla chips.

The successful candidate in this role is an individual who can lead an efficient team that produces top-quality product, believes in collaboration, builds relationships, and values the perspective of others. This is an exciting opportunity to further your career in leadership and food manufacturing.

What you’ll do:

• Lead a shift-specific team to fulfil the company’s daily and weekly production objectives. This involves achieving daily production targets and overseeing the productivity, quality, and safety standards of plant employees.
• Lead in sustaining and creating a positive work culture of humility, warmth, friendliness and diligent, hard work.
• Coordinate workflow and ensure that employees are clear on their responsibilities or assigned tasks. Maintain up-to-date training records and provide constructive feedback and coaching to enhance employee productivity.
• Ensure the maintenance of standard operating procedures and production reporting, including running totals, shift work reports, and production summaries.
• Foster and uphold a safe and productive work environment by ensuring adherence to La Cocina policies (such as safety, harassment, and food safety) and conducting ongoing training and follow-up.
• Perform audits and investigations on safety and quality. Ensure that all quality-related activities are completed and that there is compliance with all legal and company policies and procedures.
• Operate and troubleshoot packaging and food processing equipment.

Who you’ll work with:

You will supervise the workflow and safety of up to five shift-specific team members. Reporting to the Production Manager, you will be part of a team dedicated to fostering a culture of support, high quality, food safety, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

Why it matters:

La Cocina is a Canadian family-owned and operated food manufacturing facility with a 40-year history of providing high-quality corn tortillas and tortilla chips. While rapidly growing, La Cocina prides itself on being an employer of choice with a culture of respect, kindness and hard work.

Who you are:

• You are looking for a career in Production and Leadership and:
• Ready to learn a lot about the food industry
• An effective leader, respected by upper management and front-line staff.
• A proven hard worker, a go-getter, one who consistently goes above and beyond
• Humble, positive, and dependable
• A good listener/communicator, shows interest in others, kind, respectful
• Someone who is detail-oriented, fast, and takes pride in their work
• Have a minimum grade 12 education.
• Have 3+ years of supervisory experience (a combination of relevant education and experience may be considered)
• Have prior experience working with food, machinery and computers/technology is an asset, as is training and knowledge with Forklift Certification, WHMIS, First Aid and the Manitoba Workplace Safety & Health Act.

What we offer:

• Competitive wages and benefits, paid breaks, free chips and tortillas, an annual new shoe program and the opportunity to work with excellent people in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.
• Encouragement to grow in your knowledge, develop your skills and advance as a leader.

The successful candidate will work Monday to Friday from 2 PM to 10 PM.