Position: Plant Manager – Food IngredientsLocation: This is a full-time on-site position based out in Oakville, Ontario.Status: Full-time, permanent (1)
Reporting to the Director of Operations, Canada, the Plant Manager will provide strategic and operational leadership for Quadra’s food ingredients blending facility in Oakville, overseeing manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution activities. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for ensuring operational excellence across safety, quality, regulatory compliance, productivity, and people development, while supporting innovation and business growth initiatives.
We are seeking a seasoned manufacturing leader with deep experience in food production, ingredient blending, or dry powder processing environments, who thrives in fast-paced operations and has a proven ability to build high-performing teams. This role will work closely with Quality, R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial leaders to ensure our operational capabilities support current business needs while positioning the site for future growth.
This is an opportunity to lead a critical manufacturing site at a growing organization where operational excellence, innovation, and people development are at the core of our success.
If you’re a hands-on, strategic plant leader ready to make a significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.
What would be your main responsibilities as a Plant Manager ?:
Operational Leadership
Plan, organize, direct, control and optimize all plant operations including production, inventory control, maintenance, planning, and distribution.
Optimize operational performance to meet customer deadlines, ensuring minimum downtime and optimal run times, all with safety and quality at the forefront. business requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and service.
Lead and coach the Production Manager, Supervisors, Lead Hands, and Operations team to achieve performance objectives.
Promote and foster a culture of accountability, engagement, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
With the support of the maintenance coordinator, manage assets and oversee a comprehensive preventative maintenance program.
Direct sanitation efforts in a production environment, including managing dust control systems, dry cleaning procedures and full wash (wet) cleaning procedures
Collaborate and align with commercial leaders to ensure that the plant is meeting or exceeding the needs of the current business, while also aligning future growth requirements, and in turn building operational plans
People Management & Development
Provide leadership, coaching, and performance management for direct and indirect reports.
Ensure strong staffing strategies, training plans, and competency development programs.
Build leadership bench strength through succession planning and capability development
Promote a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, ownership, and results
Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory Compliance
Lead all internal and external audits, inspections, and compliance activities
Ensure full compliance with all applicable food safety and regulatory requirements, including:
Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR)
Food and Drugs Act
Health Canada requirements
Ontario food production and public health regulations
Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and Audit teams to maintain and exceed standards related to:
GMP
HACCP
FSQA
BRCGS
Preventive Control Plans
Traceability systems
Allergen control
Halal, Kosher, and Gluten-Free certifications
Inventory, Planning & Supply Chain
Oversee inventory control and production planning & scheduling
Optimize inventory accuracy (raw materials and finished goods), service levels, and working capital.
Collaborate cross-functionally to minimize waste and inefficiencies.
Business Growth & Strategic Projects
Provide operational leadership for key business initiatives and capital projects.
Support product innovation trials, scale-up, and commercialiszation activies.
Collaborate…