About us
SPB Solutions Inc. is a Canadian leader in the food and agricultural by-products collection and recycling industry with more than 40 years of experience. The materials collected, mostly from bakery, are re-engineered, processed and converted into high-quality products for animal feed producers.
Together, we’re helping Canada’s animal feed producers increase their product quality and embrace a circular economy for the good of business and nature alike.
An unwavering commitment to quality is high among this company’s priorities. Selective collection, hygienic processing and extensive quality checks guarantee high quality and consistent value-added products required by the feed milling industry. Our customers or business partners are mainly customer-suppliers (for the raw material) as well as producers or breeders of animals, particularly poultry and swine.
Furthermore, SPB Solutions Inc. is committed to providing innovative customer solutions, a high level of ethics and integrity and a “can do” corporate environment that allows employee empowerment.
What You’ll Be Doing, reporting directly to the President, the General Manager/Operations Manager will:
- Strengthening operational performance and lead the plant operations (production, transportation, site and production maintenance, office) in Petersburg with a strong focus on safety, customer service and satisfaction, quality, and operational excellence.
- Supporting commercial performance by partnering with sales expansion, dispatch, and operations teams to meet customer needs and achieve business goals. This is to maximize the monetary value of our products as well.
- Driving continuous improvement across all functional areas, production, delivery, fleet utilization, inventory, and cost controls to improve efficiency and profitability.
- Build, coach, and support high-performing teams while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, environmental requirements, government regulations, and applicable safety standards.
Strategic Leadership
- Partner with the President to develop and execute the company's strategic plan.
- Translate strategic objectives into measurable operational initiatives.
- Monitor organizational performance through meaningful KPIs and business metrics.
- Identify opportunities, manage risk, and provide thoughtful recommendations supporting long-term growth.
- Foster a culture built on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer focus.
The incumbent will manage directly a manager, transportation and site mechanic, and the office staff, and the plant workers (operators, mechanic, general workers). The incumbent collaborates with the Finance department i.e. Vice-President Finance and Controllers, the Sales teams i.e. the Vice-President Business Development and Sales, the Animal Nutritionist and R&D and with the regional Customer Satisfaction Managers/Lead as well as with HR, i.e. Vice-President HR and the HR Business Partner, and the Quality director.
The General Manager/Operations Manager attends weekly in-person or virtual meetings on Wednesdays to determine the selling price of our products for the coming week.
What Are We Looking For
- Strong business leadership capability with the ability to manage financial performance, operational priorities, and customer commitments.
- Ability to lead teams, develop talent, communicate and listen effectively, and create an inclusive, positive impact and results-focused work environment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of operations, dispatch, fleet management, production planning, and quality control.
- Sound decision-making skills with the ability to solve problems, manage competing priorities, and drive continuous improvement.
- Commitment to finance, sales, quality, safety, compliance, customer service, and operational discipline.
What you bring and the profile we are looking for
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field agriculture, operations, business, management or equivalent
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in agri-food industry or food industry or recycling
- Outstanding communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
- Progressive executive leadership experience within manufacturing, assembly, industrial distribution, commercial
- Proven success leading cross-functional teams across operations, sales, purchasing, supply chain, finance, warehouse, and customer service.
- Strong financial acumen including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, margin management, and business reporting.
- Experience leading supply chain optimization
- Demonstrated success implementing Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, Six Sigma, ERP, WMS, or similar operational improvement initiatives.
- Experience working within entrepreneurial or privately owned organizations is considered an asset.
What we offer
- Competitive salary, Incentive Program and Bonus Plan
- Group Insurance (medical, dental, LTD, Travel), 100% paid by the employer
- Pension Plan RSP (match of max 5%)
- Annual vacation from start date
- EFAP (Employee & Family Assistance Program)
- Recognition Program rewarding years of service
- Opportunities for training, development, career growth within a global organization
Next steps
Please send us your CV and motivation letter, either via LinkedIn, cteasdale@spbsolutions.com or to rhspb@spbsolutions.com. Only candidates who meet the profile will be contacted.
Our Values, the SPB Solutions Way
Customer Care, internal and external, we place them at the center of its concerns to always offer quality of service and product. Integrity, we demonstrate ethics, responsibility and loyalty | Respect, we are concerned about the impact of our actions and words | Agility, we value flexibility, adaptability, speed, alertness, ease and openness on new things.
SPB Solutions Inc. is a proud equal opportunities employer, and we are committed to creating a respectful, inclusive and barrier-free workplace that allows all our people to reach their full potential. A diverse workforce is key to our success, and we believe in bringing your whole self to work. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply and hope you will choose SPB Solutions Inc. as your employer of choice.
https://spbsolutions.com/
Conformément à la Charte de la langue française, la connaissance de l’anglais est exigée pour ce poste, car les tâches liées à la fonction nécessitent une communication régulière avec des partenaires, clients et/ou documents situés à l’extérieur du Québec.
