Job Description

Job title: Quality Inspection Supervisor

Location : Oshawa, Ont

Schedule : Monday to Friday

About Us:

Welcome to Lactalis Canada – where we take pride in being recognized as one of 2025 GTA's Top Employers! Our journey revolves around enhancing the lives of Canadians through a rich variety of dairy delights, including some of Canadian’s favourite dairy brands such as like Black Diamond Cheese, Lactantia Milk, Astro Yogurt, Balderson Cheese, and Cheese strings. In fact, we’re proud to say our products grace the shelves of an incredible 94% of Canadian households!

With a 140-year legacy driven by innovation and unwavering quality, we’re seeking like-minded individuals to join us in shaping our next chapter.

About the opportunity:

The Quality Inspection Supervisor is responsible for supervising the day-to-day quality inspection duties of finished product. The position is responsible for supporting departmental requirements through ensuring a safe completion of tasks and operation of equipment, organization of workflow, ensuring key targets and accurate results are achieved, effectively managing resources to help ensure departmental expectations are achieved.

The attributes we are looking for:

• Maintain a culture of health and safety, by executing the health and safety program. Facilitate root cause analysis and develop corrective action plans to address hazardous conditions or unsafe behaviors. Act in accordance with all applicable health and safety legislation.
• Supervising and assisting in the operation of the Inspection department as well as employees to ensure that quantitative and qualitative measures included in the operating plan are met. Ensuring and optimizing work output, health and safety, GMP, area sanitation, customer satisfaction, staffing. Promote a focus of all Inspection activities including those required to support food safety and quality.
• Provide leadership throughout the inspection process by understanding the acceptable product-specific quality standards, making sound decisions based on results and providing direction/feedback throughout the process.
• Summarizing and reporting of inspection results in an accurate, effective and timely manner.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to staff by maintaining work schedule, providing work direction, facilitating shift start up meetings, managing training and providing performance feedback.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

What you will bring:

• College diploma (or equivalent level of training)
• Minimum two (2) years’ experience as a supervisor and/or leadership role in a warehouse and or manufacturing industry. Food and HACCP exposure preferred.
• Certified forklift driver and experienced in the supervisory responsibilities under WSIB/WCB, OSHA, and First Aid is an asset
• Strong interpersonal, and verbal and written communications skills
• Demonstrated proficiency with standard office computer technology such as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office (Word & Excel), as well as business systems such as SAP/Infolog/Datex.
• Goals oriented with ability effectively supervise a team to achieve expected results.
• Industrious individuals, along with strong analytical, problem solving, planning, and decision-making skills
• Ability to diagnose and coordinate activities to be efficient and effective
• Team facilitation/leadership skills and ability to develop employees and implement continuous improvement methodologies
• Strong attention to detail while maintaining focus on tasks when monitoring product or material attributes

This job description is intended to summarize the overall level of responsibility of the job and is not an exhaustive list of all the duties performed.

What Lactalis will offer:

Lactalis Canada believes in rewarding its people with the following comprehensive benefits package and perks:

• A Competitive Base Salary
• A Performance-Based Bonus System
• 4 Weeks of Vacation
• Benefits starting day 1
• A Pension Program with an Employer Match at 100% of up to 6%
• Tuition reimbursement plan of up to $3,000/year
• A Volunteer Day to give back to your community
• Learning and Development opportunities
• A commitment to internal career advancement with potential for international mobility

Our ESG commitment:

Our ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) roadmap drives our sustainability mission. We aim to positively impact communities and the planet by enabling stakeholders including our people, consumers, customers, suppliers, dairy farmers, government, and industry partners to have a positive impact on the wellbeing of our communities and the planet through all that we do.

At Lactalis Canada, we value our employees as catalysts for positive change. Together, we will create a sustainable future, promote belonging, and make a lasting impact on the world.

Our commitment to DEI:

Fuel Our Culture with Your Uniqueness! Lactalis thrives on the value each person brings. We're dedicated to amplifying diverse voices, inviting personal and professional growth, and embracing everyone's true selves. We're committed to crafting an environment that genuinely welcomes all, reflecting the richness of our people and communities.

Our promise extends to accessible processes and spaces. If you require accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary, or permanent), please inform our Talent Acquisition team – confidentiality will be maintained.

Note: Lactalis Canada does not conduct credit or background checks through LinkedIn. If required, we'll contact you after signing a Job Offer.

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