production shift supervisor | unionized shop floor - day shift.

Production Shift Supervisor (Unionized Shop Floor – Day Shift)
Location: Burlington, ON (On-Site)
Position Type: Full-Time
Permanent Base Salary Range: $80,000+/year (Based on experience) + Comprehensive Benefits Package

Are you tired of corporate red tape?
Do you thrive where the action is?
If you are a leader who prefers steel-toed boots over a suit and tie, we want to talk to you. We are recruiting on behalf of a highly successful, specialized industrial manufacturing business in Burlington.

Over nearly four decades, this close-knit team has built an international reputation for fabricating heavy-duty, patented rubber mobile solutions. We don’t run a massive, faceless corporate plant. Our operation is tight-knit, fast-paced, and driven by a physical, passionate workforce of 20 unionized production operators. We need a people-centric, floor-first supervisor who can step onto the shop floor, build authentic trust, respect the boundaries of our collective agreement, and successfully lead our shift from the front lines.

Why You’ll Love This Role
Direct Impact: You reporting structure is lean. Your ideas are heard directly by senior leadership without navigating five layers of corporate approvals.

Stable Day Shift: No rotating continental shifts. You get to lead a dedicated, consistent team with predictable hours.
A High-Pride Product: Our company’s patented rubber technology is globally exported and keeps massive, heavy industries (like mining and civil construction) moving safely every day.

Advantages
-Competitive starting base salary of $80,000+ (depending on your specific industrial/union leadership background).
-Generous, 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits.
-Generous paid vacation and local wellness incentives.
-Convenient Burlington location with plenty of on-site parking

Responsibilities
Your primary office is the production floor. This is not an administrative desk job—you are there to keep the heartbeat of the plant steady:

-Lead & Mentor: Actively manage, coach, and support a shift of approximately 20 unionized machine, compounding, and extrusion operators.
-Keep the Flow Moving: Oversee daily production schedules, manage material flows, and coordinate with the maintenance team and millwrights to keep downtime to an absolute minimum.
-Enforce Union Harmony: Respectfully and consistently administer the collective agreement provisions. You will handle frontline disputes, support local labor relations, and work constructively with shop stewards to keep employee morale high.
-Champion Safety: Act as the frontline driver of Ontario OHSA compliance on the floor. Ensure all machinery guard systems and lock-out/tag-out procedures are strictly executed.

Qualifications
-Frontline Leadership: Minimum 3–5 years of supervisory experience in a physical, heavy manufacturing environment (experience with rubber molding, plastics extrusion, chemical compounding, or heavy assembly is a massive asset).
-Union Fluency: Deep, hands-on experience working constructively within a unionized shop. You must understand how to manage shift schedules, overtime, and grievances objectively and fairly according to a collective agreement.
-Physical Energy: You genuinely enjoy being on the floor, troubleshooting machine issues alongside operators, and maintaining high energy during busy shifts.
-Strong Communication: The ability to communicate clear expectations, give constructive feedback, and resolve interpersonal conflicts before they escalate.
-Software Basics: Comfortable using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) to log shift activities and track inventory/timecards + SAP

Summary
Interested in learning more details? Reach-Out to Sarah Dinis Show phone number Email resume to View email address on randstad.com

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to View email address on randstad.com to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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