Production Manager
Role Overview
The Production Manager ensures safe, efficient, and consistent operation of the tire recycling facility.
The role leads production supervisors and plant employees to meet targets, maintain quality and safety, manage equipment utilization and housekeeping, and control operating costs.
Key priorities include maximizing throughput, minimizing downtime, and continuously improving plant performance.
Key Skills for This Role
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Company and facility
Emterra Tire Recycling Ltd. is a Canadian company operating from Brampton, Ontario, and is part of Emterra Group.
The facility hauls and processes used passenger, truck, industrial, and agricultural tires into crumb rubber and other recycled products.
Role overview
The Production Manager ensures safe, efficient, and consistent operation of the tire recycling facility.
The role leads production supervisors and plant employees to meet targets, maintain quality and safety, manage equipment utilization and housekeeping, and control operating costs.
Key priorities include maximizing throughput, minimizing downtime, and continuously improving plant performance.
Responsibilities
- Keep the plant staffed and prepared to sustain 24/7 operations; manage daily production and achieve targets safely and efficiently.
- Train shift supervisors, operators, and production employees; set shift priorities and production expectations.
- Report throughput, downtime, labour utilization, material recovery, and product quality to senior management daily.
- Enforce safety procedures, including PPE, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and safe operating practices, and follow applicable regulations.
- Coordinate equipment repairs, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvements with maintenance and operations leaders.
- Investigate production issues, equipment delays, quality concerns, and recurring operational problems.
- Ensure shift-start operator inspections, detailed production reports, and shift handovers are completed.
- Maintain housekeeping, material management, and plant organization; manage labour and overtime costs within limits.
- Review production and downtime performance, coach supervisors, and support recruitment, performance management, and employee development.
Qualifications
- Previous leadership experience in manufacturing, recycling, heavy industrial processing, waste management, automotive, rubber processing, or a similar industrial environment.
- Experience managing 24/7 production operations.
- A college diploma or university degree in operations management, industrial engineering, manufacturing, mechanical or industrial technology, or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent manufacturing or recycling experience may be considered.
- PLC programming or controls experience is an asset; industrial processing equipment, production KPIs, downtime analysis, and continuous improvement experience are preferred.
Working environment
- Work takes place in a plant environment with exposure to extreme weather, dust, noise, heat, cold, fumes, residential and commercial waste and recycling, and equipment traffic.
Wage
- The posting lists a wage range of $75,000–$90,000 without specifying a pay cadence.
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