About Us
JFE Shoji Power Canada (JSC) is an electrical steel products manufacturer
located in Burlington, Ontario. As the largest producer of transformer cores in
North America, JSC specializes in wound, amorphous, and step-lap cores for power
generation and distribution equipment. Its electrical steel products and
magnetic materials are also used in electric vehicle motors and charging station
infrastructure, data centres, audio equipment, and other industrial
applications.
Since 1972, JSC (formerly Cogent) has grown from a small niche manufacturer to
an integral part of the North American electrical steel supply chain with
multiple facilities and over 500 employees. JSC is dedicated to meeting the
growing demand for electrical energy by providing strategic, innovative, and
sustainable solutions to its clients.
What Sets Us Apart?
At JFE Shoji Power Canada, we are more than just a company—we are a community
that embraces safety. We have a proactive safety attitude where every team
member is empowered to care for each other and take responsibility for keeping
everyone safe. By embodying the ICare principles, we ensure that safety is not
just a priority but a core value of our culture. Each employee plays an
essential role in shaping a workplace where safety is embedded in every action
we take, and where incidents are prevented before they happen.
Job Summery
The Shift Manager is responsible for facilitating and managing the day-to-day
operations on assigned shifts. Coaching, guiding and educating the team to
achieve shift targets and Company goals. Empowering the team to function
autonomously while meeting production expectation and developing their skills to
become high performance teams. The Shift Manager is responsible for the safety,
quality, production targets and continuous improvement of all team members.
Responsibilities & Duties
Safety
- Understands JSC Health & Safety Policy, the Occupational Health & Safety Act,
AODA, WHMIS, and Safe Work Standards. Ensures that these policies are being
upheld
- Ensures that Health and Safety rules and regulations are adhered to in the
plant and that matters relating to H&S are dealt with properly within JSC’s
Health & Safety Policy & the Occupational Health & Safety Act
- Document all safety activities
- Ensures that JI Audits are properly completed and oversees the training
requirements of all team members on the shift
- Supervise plant safety and housekeeping practices and maintain a constant
alert for hazardous conditions
- Collaborate with the RTW Specialist and HR to support employees who have
experienced occupational or non-occupational injuries, ensuring appropriate
accommodations and modifications to their job duties are being offered and
abided by
- Oversee and ensure employees returning to work from a leave of absence are
retrained on SWS’s for their equipment and job duties
- Respond to employee injuries by administering or seeking appropriate first
aid assistance, issuing medical authorization forms, updating safety
incident/accident reporting, investigating accident causes and
recommending means to prevent accident re-occurrence.
- Complete safety audits and safety walks through production areas at the start
of each shift.
People
- Engage with our team members by conducting Shift Updates, Safety Meetings,
Production Meetings and promoting continuous communication among the teams
and shifts.
- Provides mentorship and coaching to all members of the team. Works directly
with team leaders to provide necessary support and leadership to achieve key
objectives
- Conduct and document pre-shift huddles and provides feedback for Team Members
& Team Leaders
- Works closely with other Shift Managers to ensure production shift handovers
are effective communication tools
- Responsible for ensuring that payroll (Ceridian) is properly updated,
including timecard verification, documenting notes and approving timecards in
a timely manner
- Mentors team to achieve optimal results and encourages teamwork and
professional interpersonal relationships
- Conducts performance appraisals and proactively provides feedback to team
members
- Track and record employee attendance daily
- Meet, communicate and document with all absent employees to gain a better
understanding of the absence.
- Mentor employees in a timely fashion
- Maintains clear up-to-date communication with Support & Production Team
members for production goals, client priorities, quality issues, and/or
challenges during shift
- Participates in the team's progressive discipline process, ensuring
expectations are met and issues are addressed effectively and in a timely
manner;
- Works with HR to address employee relations as they arise such as
investigations and/or complaints
- Resolves conflicts at interpersonal level
Production
- Manages and supports all production teams to achieve our key results – this
includes managing teams to ensure internal goals are achieved – OEE, EOL,
Flow Rate, OTIF, etc.
- Plans and executes daily production tasks using different operational tools,
which include aligning manpower, allocating team members for cross-training
and providing support to the teams
- Monitors, measures, and reports on production related process performance
- Coordinates with the Maintenance team on implementing new equipment /
technology into production
- Ensures timely repair and maintenance of existing equipment is completed by
maintenance team
- Improves OEE by continuous monitoring of all machines and reduce downtime by
checking each line every 30 minutes.
- Immediately requests maintenance and/or engineering support to correct/fix
downtime situations and communicate downtime to Operations Manager for
support.
- Maximizes employee productivity by prioritizing tasks at the start of each
shift, optimizing shift changeovers, reallocating labour as needed, and
ensuring team members are focused on current priorities.
- Responsible for shift coordination for changeovers, report production issues
to Operations Manager during the start and throughout the shift.
- Carry out schedule and communicate daily targets to Team and continuously
monitor runtime and EOL data.
Quality/Continuous Improvement Knowledge Requirements
- Leads Plant & Process Audits to ensure that all team members meet JSC’s
internal standards and continuously improve scores each week. This includes
cleanliness, safety, equipment condition, and updates of the LOS Boards, etc.
- Plays an active role in the company’s continuous improvement plan to achieve
plans for future growth within JSC
- Reviews product defects, and coordinates corrections by way of Nonconformance
reports
- Participates in the investigation of technical problems and the establishment
of procedures and corrective actions to avoid recurrences
- Participates in, plan, support and lead Continuous Improvement activities
- Supports the analysis of production flow, equipment utilization, waste
reduction (5 S), Kaizens and efficiencies through the application of
fundamental Lean manufacturing techniques
- Identifies and executes opportunities for improvement in production workflow
- Ensures compliance and support of plant initiatives with all company, ISO,
Government policies and regulations
- Supports, coaches and promotes continuous improvement culture leading /
participating in Kaizen events, 8D analysis, FMEA and other tools.
- Resolves all material quality or material shortage issues.
Qualifications:
- Passionate about people and providing coaching/mentorship to develop people
- Eight (8) years, or more, of direct hands on, fast-paced manufacturing
experience working in a Lean Organization
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing concepts and “design for manufacturing”
principles
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Time management skills
- Demonstrated commitment to achieving organizational and personal goals
- Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization
- Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, strong organizational and
planning abilities and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills are
essential
- Certified JHSC safety training is an asset
- Prior direct or indirect leadership experience in a large manufacturing
setting is required
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with all levels of the
organization
- Self-motivated/Self-driven, enthusiastic and cooperative
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.)
Working Conditions
The Shift Manager is required to always wear personal protective equipment. A
Shift Manager must work rotating shifts. 90% of the Shift Manager’s time should
be spent on the plant floor – this is exposed to the manufacturing process and
loud noises from the machinery.
