Jobs at Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

Creates and maintains production schedules, SAP process orders, inventory plans, and stock transfers to support customer fulfillment and plant efficiency. Coordinates with Sales, Customer Service, FSQA, Warehouse, and production teams; monitors KPIs, schedule adherence, forecasts, yields, and capacity constraints. Identifies anomalies and root causes, supports food safety compliance, and drives continuous improvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Establishes and updates labor standards, tracks manufacturing labor performance, and supports costing, capacity planning, product development, and process optimization. Responsibilities include line balancing, labor optimization, debottlenecking, waste elimination, time studies, job analysis, simulations, and strategic initiatives. The role collaborates with supply chain, commercial, operations, finance, marketing, and R&D teams to improve manufacturing performance and support sustainable growth.

Develop production, inventory, and capacity plans to meet service-level targets while controlling inventory and operating costs. Analyze data to identify constraints, bottlenecks, root causes, and continuous improvement opportunities. Manage seasonal inventory builds, support new product launches, participate in S&OP, and collaborate cross-functionally to resolve shortages and improve supply chain performance.

Manages the order-to-delivery process for assigned customers, including order requirements, inventory allocation, delivery coordination, supply issue resolution, invoice deduction investigations, and delivery failure troubleshooting. The role collaborates with customers, sales, transportation, accounts receivable, and cross-functional teams; prepares order shortage reports; supports recalls; and leads continuous improvement initiatives using Six Sigma methods.

Leads growth strategy and commercial performance for the Kits portfolio. Responsibilities include category planning, innovation pipeline development, product commercialization, packaging and brand collaboration, customer and channel growth, pricing and promotion strategy, demand planning, market analysis, budgeting, and cross-functional leadership across Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Product Development, and Marketing.

Troubleshoot, maintain, and improve automated industrial controls and equipment across a manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include PLC and HMI programming, robotic and network support, SCADA and BAS maintenance, control-system backups, electrical schematic design, equipment installation oversight, maintenance-team training, OEM coordination, and compliance with engineering, safety, and food-quality standards.

Manage and provide technical leadership for $3M–$30M capital projects across food manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include developing project scopes, CAD layouts, budgets, and schedules; supervising execution; coordinating consultants, contractors, and stakeholders; ensuring food safety, health and safety, regulatory compliance, and project governance; resolving plant operational issues; and coaching junior personnel and plant teams.

Leads the Talent Acquisition team across manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions. Oversees executive recruitment, recruiter development, SmartRecruiters adoption, responsible AI enablement, candidate and hiring leader experiences, employer branding, reporting, vendor relationships, and continuous improvement. Partners with senior leaders and HR stakeholders to strengthen recruitment strategy, processes, technology adoption, and data-driven hiring outcomes.

Leads the early careers strategy, including campus recruitment, internships, co-ops, apprenticeships, and rotational programs. Manages university relationships, recruiting, onboarding, development, employer branding, stakeholder engagement, budgets, and program metrics. Partners with Talent Development and Learning & Development to create impactful learning and mentorship experiences, while using dashboards and KPIs to improve retention, engagement, performance, and career progression.

Leads commercial contracting, legal operations, contract processes, and enterprise risk governance. Reviews and negotiates customer, supplier, technology, and services agreements; oversees commercial disputes and external counsel; develops risk assessments and Board reporting; and leads Grocery Code of Conduct compliance. The role also implements legal technology, AI, automation, playbooks, knowledge management, training, and service standards while advising senior business leaders.

Manage medium-to-large capital projects, including plans, budgets, schedules, contracts, suppliers, and technical implementation. Lead equipment reliability, maintenance strategy, root-cause analysis, FMEA, RCM, predictive maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Monitor asset performance and KPIs, resolve recurring failures, support plant operations, and improve equipment productivity, maintainability, safety, quality, and production outcomes. Travel as needed.

The MRO Coordinator manages maintenance, repair, and operating inventory in an industrial environment. Responsibilities include cycle counts, min/max inventory levels, spare-parts kitting and staging, CMMS and SAP updates, vendor coordination, warranty tracking, materials receiving, performance reporting, and inventory strategy development. The role collaborates with Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, Engineering, and Purchasing to prevent downtime, improve service levels, manage parts criticality, and maintain safe, compliant warehouse processes.

Coordinates daily HR operations for a manufacturing site, including recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, benefits administration, employee records, training, workforce movements, absenteeism, health and safety committees, and disability or CNESST follow-up. Supports managers with HR policies, documentation, reports, disciplinary measures, and labor-relations matters. The role also supervises HR technicians, clerks, and interns when required.

Leads HR operations and labour relations across smaller multi-site locations. Manages employee relations issues, investigations, discipline, grievances, bargaining preparation, policy and collective agreement consistency, and labour risk identification. Partners with Operations leaders, standardizes HR practices, coaches site HR teams and managers, and builds succession strength across the network.

Leads engineering, capital projects, process engineering, technical services, utilities, documentation, training, and facility infrastructure for a large poultry processing facility. The role manages multidisciplinary teams, CAPEX planning and execution, equipment reliability, manufacturing improvements, CAD governance, utility optimization, sustainability initiatives, compliance, and continuous improvement. It also oversees contractors, suppliers, commissioning, technical training, and long-term asset management.

Develop and maintain an 18-month rolling demand forecast in SAP IBP, using statistical modeling, Excel, and Power BI to support supply and production planning. Lead cross-functional forecast alignment with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams; analyze trends, risks, and forecast performance; manage customer demand information; and drive corrective actions to improve forecast accuracy and planning effectiveness.

The IT Security Consultant designs, implements, and assesses cybersecurity controls across on-premises and cloud environments. Responsibilities include threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, digital forensics, network and cloud security, IAM, DevSecOps, data protection, security testing, and risk reporting. The role collaborates with architecture, GRC, operations, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver security projects, mitigate risks, improve controls, and strengthen the organization’s cybersecurity posture.

Leads foodservice distribution sales across British Columbia, managing existing and new customers, commercial performance, P&L, forecasting, trade spend, and growth plans. Builds strategic customer partnerships and joint business plans while coordinating with Marketing, Finance, Distribution, and Supply Chain. Develops market insights, identifies opportunities, negotiates solutions, and establishes operating practices to deliver volume, sales, gross profit, and budget objectives.

Manage period-end close, journals, accruals, adjustments, reconciliations, financial statement validation, accounting governance, controls, and audit readiness. Review complex and high-risk entries, resolve accounting issues, support financial data integrity, and drive process improvements. Lead stakeholder collaboration and staff development while supporting SAP integration for a Montreal subsidiary, including travel of 1–2 weeks per month until March.

The Controller leads the accounting team and partners with operations on financial and operational performance analysis. Responsibilities include month-end closing, financial statement preparation and variance analysis, budgeting, cash-flow forecasting, banking reports, accounting controls, inventory controls, year-end audits, tax-support documentation, and compliance with company accounting and SQF food-safety requirements.