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Position Type: | Full-time |
Date Posted: | Feb 03, 2015 |
Experience: | 10+ Years |
Education: | University Degree |
Job Description
Company: At Ontario Plants Propagation Limited, our vision is to be Eastern North America’s premier supplier of greenhouse vegetable transplants. In order to help us accomplish this goal, we need to hire motivated passionate people. With that in mind we are looking for a Manufacturing Manager whose primary responsibilities will be production planning/scheduling, inside sales, and continuous improvement. More specifically these duties would include responding to customer inquiries, providing quotes, coordinating the ordering and preparation of inventory supplies for production, and gathering and analyzing data.
Responsibilities
Email: employment@ontarioplants.com
Subject title: Manufacturing Manager
Fax: 519 637 2449
**Only those meeting the requirements will be considered
Responsibilities
- Provide customer service and support to internal and external clients
- Generate and provide customer quotes, enter customer orders, provide confirmations and information as per their requirements
- Respond to inquiries via phone or email
- Manage seed handling chain (supply, reception, inventory, preparation, delivery to sowing department)
- Data collection and analysis
- Seed inventory management
- Forecast supply requirements
- Preparing production schedules for sowing, selecting, and grafting.
- Monitoring schedule to ensure execution of customer expectations
- Coordinating with the workforce manager and growing team to ensure sufficient resources are available to meet customer demands
Requirements:
- University or higher technical degree
- +5 years in manufacturing management or production management role
- Strong customer service orientation
- High degree of resourcefulness, flexibility, and adaptability.
- Must have the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies, procedures, etc.
- Superior telephone manners and strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Well-developed problem solving skills and ability to develop alternatives
- Intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Macros, VLookup, Design of Experiments, Data Analysis)
- French an asset
- Office and Greenhouse environment in rural setting
- Full time Monday to Friday- hours to be determined by the VP
- Will be required to periodically work weekends & holidays as needed
- Able to work long hours during peak production times
- Must have own reliable transportation
- Salary to be negotiated
- Group benefit plan after waiting period
Email: employment@ontarioplants.com
Subject title: Manufacturing Manager
Fax: 519 637 2449
**Only those meeting the requirements will be considered