Facility Manager, Agriculture

Job title: Facility Manager, Agriculture

Company:

Job description: You are a qualified professional with superior operation and maintenance management skills and experience in an industrial environment. Your facility management and leadership skills ensure operational excellence combined with the exceptional ability to deliver high quality customer service and maintain productive work relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You have a history of success in managing all aspects of daily facility operations including receiving, shipping, rail car and truck scheduling, staffing, maintenance, inventory control while maintaining the highest standards of workplace health and safety.

Our client is committed to:

• Providing an opportunity to join a leader in the agricultural industry that strives to deliver outstanding service in storage, handling, and transportation of company product.

Reporting to the General Manager, as Facility Manager, you will:

• Supervise and coordinate receiving and incoming loading product railcars and trucks.
• Maximize efficiency and minimize overtime and demurrage costs by effectively allocating human and locomotive resources.
• Supervise and coordinate shipping and out loading product by truck to retail distribution and farm locations.
• Possess a familiarity with computer-controlled operations that enables you to act in an operator capacity when required.
• Collaborate with the Repairs and Maintenance department to guide, coordinate and assist with required.
• Work with the compost buyer and marketer to understand and implement service goals.
• Assist the Division Manager to plan and execute the annual budget.
• Effectively ensure compliance with corporate safety, health and environmental policies and procedures.
• Recruit, train and evaluate operations staff to achieve and maintain operational efficiency while ensuring high degree of customer service and satisfaction.
• Optimize the use of physical storage facilities for maximum financial return.
• Monitor all controllable expenses to maximize profitability of the facility. Responsible for inventory control and accuracy.
• Effectively retain customer and employee loyalty by maintaining professional integrity and an exceptional quality of service.

What the successful candidate will bring:

• Secondary education with 3+ years of supervisory/management experience in a related industry.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & Outlook).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Valid class 5 driver’ s license and a favorable bond record.
• Familiarity and working knowledge of agriculture or farming is an asset.

In return, what you can expect:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Expected salary:

Location: Winnipeg, MB

Job date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:14:02 GMT