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Senior Production Manager
Job Description
Are you looking to grow your career and move into a more senior role?
Our client in West Edmonton, just west of Spruce Grove, is seeking an experienced Senior Production Manager to oversee a high?volume processing and packaging operation.
This role is ideal for a hands?on manufacturing leader who enjoys being closely connected to daily production while also driving operational improvements, developing teams, and strengthening overall plant performance.
Production Manager Key Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and oversight for daily production activities including material processing, screening, blending, packaging, and shipping
- Maintain a visible presence on the production floor, supporting teams and ensuring smooth operational execution
- Ensure strong performance across safety, product quality, production output, equipment reliability, and cost control
- Monitor production performance and contribute to budget planning, operational forecasting, and performance tracking
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity, and operational processes, including supporting capital improvement initiatives
- Develop supervisors and production staff through coaching, mentorship, and leadership development
- Promote a workplace culture built on accountability, continuous improvement, and constructive communication
- Work effectively within an environment where production demands and operating conditions may vary day to day
- Strengthen engagement and leadership capability across the production team
- Demonstrated experience managing production operations within a manufacturing environment
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, operational performance metrics, and production management
- Experience leading teams within high-volume or operationally complex manufacturing facilities
- Ability to manage production environments where conditions and outputs may shift daily
- A confident leader who makes thoughtful decisions, challenges existing processes, and supports team growth
- Leadership style grounded in integrity, accountability, and operational excellence
- Salary range $12,000 – $130,000, depending on experience
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Performance-based bonus program
- Company vehicle
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Meet Your Recruiter
Danielle Bragge
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Recruiting Specialty: Operations & Engineering
Danielle has had a rewarding career of over 30 years of recruiting in Canada and South Africa, including co-founding The Headhunters in 2009. Drawing on this extensive recruitment experience and managing the operations of her own businesses, she specializes in the placement of operations and engineering professionals. Focusing on senior-level searches, she has recruited coast-to-coast across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, energy, technology and construction.
Danielle’s business achievements are predicated on people, since she understands profoundly that companies are successful because of the individuals they hire and the leadership they cultivate. She partners with her clients to resolve critical vacancies, and with her highly consultative approach, helps them develop long-term human capital strategies to drive growth and sustainability.
Rising quickly during her early career through the ranks of Fortune 500 and Deloitte Best Managed companies in various management roles, Danielle was previously named one of the Top 100 Women in Business in Alberta. A mother of five, she strongly believes in balancing family, work and service to the community. In keeping with that spirit, she and her family run a not-for-profit organization called Saving the Hungry, leading teams to support community projects in developing countries.