Manufacturing Manager

Summary

Candu Energy Inc. is looking to recruit a stellar Manufacturing Manager to join our busy manufacturing facility based in Mississauga. This person will be managing a team of individuals including machine shop supervisors for both day and night shift.

Job Responsibilities:

• Management/leadership of the machine, fabrication and metrology shops
• Ensure resources are in place to support Candu Energy projects, providing high quality and cost-effective manufacturing services
• Promote a strong safety culture in the shops
• Ensure that all work done meets or exceeds both the Candu Energy Quality Program and customer requirements, and complies with all applicable regulatory standards (e.g. CSA and/or ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code)
• Communicate effectively on a daily basis with supervisors and staff in the functional department on all matters ranging from employee concerns to changing manufacturing priorities
• Communicate effectively on a daily basis with both internal and external customers on technical, commercial, delivery and quality issues
• Develop and maintain a good relationship with unionized machinists and welders, building a strong team that will be eager to support internal and external customers
• Develop and maintain a good relationship with Candu Energy project leadership and external customers in order to promote Candu Energy's manufacturing capabilities and respond effectively to emergency needs
• Contribute to meeting the revenue, direct margin and overhead cost targets of the Tooling and Services organization
• Ensure manufacturing scope on Candu Energy projects is executed within budget and on schedule, in accordance to timing and cost estimates agreed with project managers
• Demonstrate financial/strategic benefits of internal manufacturing operations as a core competence of Candu Energy by ongoing bench marking of costs/capabilities of third party providers
• Ensure that Manufacturing Services equipment is maintained in good working order through continual implementation of preventative maintenance program
• Develop plans and secure capital authorization for new equipment to continually improve capability and efficiency of operations and ensure that Candu Energy retains leading technical capability
• Ensure that there is sufficient trained staff to complete work safely and in a timely manner, while meeting or exceeding the customer's quality requirements
• Manage manufacturing services overhead and capital budgets
• Liaise with corporate finance and procurement as required in completion of capital projects
• Oversee the recruitment, development and performance reviews of manufacturing staff
• Ensure all employee matters are handled in accordance with collective agreements
• Understand the various projects at Candu Energy and communicate effectively to resolve shop scheduling conflicts that will affect the delivery of different projects

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of related manufacturing experience
• Management/leadership experience, particularly overseeing the work of skilled trades in a unionized environment
• Familiarity with quality assurance programs, and the codes and standards that govern nuclear equipment manufacturing
• A business background is an asset
• Creative use of resources to minimize the use of overtime to meet schedule requirements
• Comfortable taking on challenges such as conflicting priorities and short deadlines
• Willingness and ability to train and coach junior staff while implementation additional shifts, during hours where limited management staff are present

  The masculine gender is used only to simplify the wording.

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