Inventory Control Supervisor - Temporary up to 15 Months

Sunrise Farms is a group of companies with primary focus in the poultry industry.

From our hatcheries to our “ready to eat” state of the art cooking facilities we service customers in the retail, food service and industrial sectors. We are proud of our support of the Canadian farm as well as our investment in the latest equipment and technologies at our facilities across Canada. Our test kitchens have the most current cooking equipment replicating that used in commercial establishments, to facilitate precision testing. This way you know the product you receive will perform to your expectations. We are proud of our long-standing partnerships with family-owned Canadian chicken farmers to produce high quality products.

Role:

Supervising the overall day-to day operations of the company’s Billing department, Reception, and Factory Outlet. Ensuring that serialized inventory is balanced and variance free. Responsible for ensuring a timely resolution to key issues and that appropriate levels of support are in place. Provide support to the Factory Outlet, Reception and Confirming Staff to ensure their success.

• Leads the Confirming Desk team, ensuring familiarity with company policies, procedures, and job expectations
• Assigns tasks, monitors workloads, and verifies overtime
• Manages daily functions of the Factory Outlet, providing direction to the Retail Store Clerk
• Oversees reception operations, including responsibilities related to export procedures
• Provides training to confirming staff to ensure a thorough understanding of daily responsibilities
• Serves as the primary contact for Syspro 8 system issues and delivers training on its usage to confirming team members
• Coordinates and reviews confirming processes through regular team meetings and collected meeting minutes
• Monitors reconciliation of Plant and Cold Storage inventories on a weekly basis
• Ensures serialized inventory reports requested by management are accurate and up to date, conducting random audits as needed
• Coordinates the schedule for frozen cycle counts and reviews all counts completed by shipping
• Investigates discrepancies and reports findings to management
• Performs weekly checks on both frozen and fresh serialized items
• Manages inventory entry during Month End and ensures confirming reports reflect the previous period’s cycle count summaries
• Maintains and updates supply inventory and item master files (ICM, IBM, IBN) in accordance with company procedures
• Acts as a liaison between internal teams and third-party IT service providers (FM Management and Constant-C) to troubleshoot and resolve system issues
• Maintains department calendars for billing, reception, and Factory Outlet to track time off, and ensures the billing department’s policy and procedure documentation is current
• Participates in year-end inventory counts with auditors and prepares required reports for both management and audit teams.
• Provides backup support for export and confirming responsibilities as needed
• Records and verifies daily and weekly Plant KPI data, ensuring accuracy before distribution
• Covers responsibilities of the Business Solution Manager during periods of vacation
• Completes other tasks as assigned by the Plant Controller
• Creates and maintains the calendar for the billing department, reception, and Factory Outlet, to record all time off in the department. Also updates policy and procedure book for billing department
• Completes year end counts with the auditor and ensures reporting required by the auditor is provided to Management as well as the auditors themselves
• Backs up Export procedures when required
• Backs up all Confirming responsibilities when required
• Performs other duties as requested by Plant Controller
• Entering Plant KPI data, and ensuring the correctness of data and distributing daily & weekly KPIs
• Providing coverage to the Business Solution Manager when on vacation
  
  

Requirements:

• Grade 12 education or equivalent
• 2-3 years’ experience in an inventory analysis/customer service role
• Technical proficiency and files management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Proficiency with Syspro is an asse
  
  

Competencies:

• Coordination and task prioritization
• Technical and systems proficiency
• Interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
  
  

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At Sunrise Farms we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other identifying characteristic are encouraged to apply.

Please note that the expected new hire salary range provided is derived from a group of like roles within Sunrise Farms. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.