Jobs Locations: Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick
HR Recruitment Coordinator
Who We Are
Connors Bros. located in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick is one of Canada’s oldest seafood manufacturers and is the largest sardine canning plant in North America. Our products are enjoyed in over 50 countries.
For over 100 years, we have delivered delicious, healthy, and affordable canned seafood to consumers and there’s never been a better time to join our team and grow along with us.
Clover Leaf Seafoods, along with our U.S. affiliate, Bumble Bee Foods, forms one of North America’s largest branded seafood companies with $1B in annual revenue. In 2020, Clover Leaf Seafoods, along with Bumble Bee Foods, was acquired by our long-time partner, FCF Company Ltd. FCF is a privately held company and one of the world’s largest marine trading companies, with 50 years of experience in the supply of tuna and other seafood. With FCF as a strong strategic owner, Clover Leaf Seafoods is well positioned for future growth.
When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp., you become part of a company that, together with our parent company, Bumble Bee Seafoods, is working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. From fishers to our employees, to customers, consumers, and to the communities we serve, we base our actions on shared, transparent values that hold us accountable to each other and the world. You’ll be encouraged, empowered, and challenged to be your best self through ongoing professional development in an inclusive environment.
About the Role
In this exciting role, you will be responsible for full-cycle recruitment of candidates for our operations team to create strong talent pipelines for the company’s current and future hiring needs. Developing recruiting plans and using a multitude of sourcing strategies, you have the ability to shape the company’s future through our people. You will achieve this through the following objectives:
- Consult with Operation Supervisors to identify resourcing needs, job specifications, job duties, qualifications, and skills to develop and execute a recruiting plan.
- Maintain current knowledge of Pay Equity, Human Rights and Employment Standard guidelines and selection.
- Create recruiting and interviewing plans for each role to fill open positions efficiently and effectively.
- Create job postings for internal and external advertising within various professional organizations and other appropriate venues, including all social media platforms, to develop a pool of qualified candidates in advance of need.
- Maintain hiring requisitions and prepare reports on recruitment metrics.
- Determine selection procedures including screening calls, assessments, interviews, and complete reference checks.
- With support from Manager, Human Resources, recruit Temporary Foreign Workers.
- Lead employer branding initiatives for Connors Bros.
- Organize and attend job fairs and recruitment events.
- Conduct company onboarding to ensure candidates are set-up for success.
- Prepare employee records to ensure all necessary documentation has been submitted during the onboarding process.
- Implement employee surveys for new employees within the first 60 days and conduct exit interviews to understand improvement opportunities for employee engagement.
What You Need to Succeed
- University graduate preferably in Human Resources Management.
- Experience in recruitment is preferred.
- Familiarity with social media and recruitment strategies
- Comfortable presenting to large groups and developing professional networks.
- Knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
Financial Business Planning Analyst
Who We Are
Connors Bros. located in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick is one of Canada’s oldest seafood manufacturers and is the largest sardine canning plant in North America. Our products are enjoyed in over 50 countries.
For over 100 years, we have delivered delicious, healthy, and affordable canned seafood to consumers and there’s never been a better time to join our team and grow along with us.
Clover Leaf Seafoods, along with our U.S. affiliate, Bumble Bee Foods, forms one of North America’s largest branded seafood companies with $1B in annual revenue. In 2020, Clover Leaf Seafoods, along with Bumble Bee Foods, was acquired by our long-time partner, FCF Company Ltd. FCF is a privately held company and one of the world’s largest marine trading companies, with 50 years of experience in the supply of tuna and other seafood. With FCF as a strong strategic owner, Clover Leaf Seafoods is well positioned for future growth.
When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp., you become part of a company that, together with our parent company, Bumble Bee Seafoods, is working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. From fishers to our employees, to customers, consumers, and to the communities we serve, we base our actions on shared, transparent values that hold us accountable to each other and the world. You’ll be encouraged, empowered, and challenged to be your best self through ongoing professional development in an inclusive environment.
About the Role
The Business Planning Analyst (BPA) conducts evaluations of current manufacturing processes to assist management with efficient execution of the operating plan. The BPA works with all departments, documenting findings, and assisting with providing clear explanations to the business. Under the guidance of the Controller, the BPA serves as multi-functional support to the Blacks Harbour Finance team by assisting with numerous tasks including weekly production cost analysis, monthly balance sheet and income statement preparation, pension plan administration, CIP oversight, cash forecasts, and meeting month end financial close deadlines for manufacturing and marine operations.
The Business Planning Analyst will be involved in various functions within the finance team with the following responsibilities outlined below:
Business Analysis
- Perform various cost analysis of processes and cost centers for evaluation of business impact
- Prepare weekly production cost analysis (KPI’s)
- Assist in preparation of forward-looking standard costs
Month-End Close
- Assist the Controller in ensuring meeting financial close deadlines
- Preparing applicable month-end journal entries in a timely and accurate manner for CLSC and CBMC
- Update month-end schedules required for balance sheet analysis comparing results versus prior quarter (PQ), year-end (YE) and prior year (PY).
- Prepare monthly income statement and gross profit schedules
- Oversee the administration of the company hourly and salaried pension plan, and related reconciliations
Corporate Finance
- Prepare cash requirement forecasts
- Fixed Asset validation including construction in progress, capital expenditure additions, retirements, and request for capital expenditures.
- Review Balance Sheet files and submit to Canadian Corporate office
Audit
- Assist in assembling supporting documents for the regularly scheduled internal/external audits throughout the year under the guidance of the Controller.
What You Need to Succeed
- A related university accounting or finance degree
- Experience in costing is an asset
- Knowledgeable and experienced in working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, preferably SAP ECC 6.0, and MS Office Suite primarily Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Minimum 3-5 years of related experience in business planning and general accounting duties
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with all disciplines and levels of management to achieve company goals.
- A “people person” proven to be results orientation, possess attention to detail skills, a proven ability to handle multiple priorities, and meet deadlines.
- Strong organizational abilities with effective time management skills
- Easily and willingly adapts to change
- Ability to determine cause of issues and propose acceptable solutions
- Work well under pressure and meet daily, weekly, and monthly deadlines.
- Ability to work effectively remotely.
- Must be highly skilled in collaborating with internal and external individuals at every level within an organization
- Must possess excellent organizational skills with the ability to handle complexity and ambiguity
- Must have a high attention to detail with solid fact-based analytical thinking.
Supervisor, Maintenance
Who We Are
For over 100 years, Clover Leaf and Brunswick have delivered delicious, healthy, and affordable canned seafood to consumers. Today, as the leading branded marketer of canned seafood in Canada, we’re expanding our business, and there’s never been a better time to join our team and grow along with us.
When you join Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp., you become part of a company that, together with our parent company, Bumble Bee Seafoods, is working hard to find new ways to protect the ocean and those that rely on it. From fishers to our team members, to customers, consumers, and to the communities we serve, we base our actions on shared, transparent values that hold us accountable to each other and the world.
When you join Connors Bros., a division of Clover Leaf Seafoods, you become an integral part of a tight-knit team in a quaint coastal community. You’ll be encouraged, empowered, and challenged to be your best self through ongoing professional development in an inclusive environment.
About the role
Reporting to the Director of Health, Safety & Environment, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the maintenance department and to supervise the maintenance team at our facilities. You will evaluate systems or facilities to determine maintenance or repairs that need to be performed, develop maintenance procedures and schedules, train staff and ensure the smooth running and upkeep of our equipment to meet operational needs. You must be reliable and have a great eye for detail. You need technical skills and knowledge of various crafts such as carpentry, electrical, plumbing and industrial mechanics. Leadership and knowledge of administrative tasks such as scheduling are also essential.
- The responsibility and accountability for providing leadership, direction, and management of our maintenance team.
- Be responsible for ensuring that maintenance programs and initiatives are adequately implemented to ensure the maximum availability of the equipment to achieve superior customer satisfaction, high quality, total safety and low cost through the skills and abilities of the employees.
- Lead the shift operation, supporting the team’s continuous development to become high performing, working both at the situational and systemic level.
- Lead the execution and sustainability of World Class Manufacturing efforts for the process area and team.
- Operate with a focus on both quality and efficiency, guiding and monitoring team members in their adherence to World Class Manufacturing principles and processes to optimize the team’s performance.
- Manage maintenance processes or systems to ensure compliance with product specifications, GMP, policies, procedures, corrective action processes, and continuous performance improvement.
- Build and manage relationships with internal and external suppliers and other departments within the facility to achieve overall objectives.
- Ensure efficient and cost-effective management of asset care processes and activities to maximize equipment reliability and asset preservation.
- You may also lead projects and indirectly manage staff for projects through functional leadership.
What You Need to be Successful:
- Must be a Journeyman Industrial Mechanic/Industrial Electrician with a minimum of 5-7 years manufacturing experience (preferably in food manufacturing),
- Should have a minimum of 2-4 years of supervisory experience in a unionized maintenance setting.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; you demonstrate ability to coach, motivate, and manage/develop maintenance employees, encouraging two-way communication among team members and between team members and their team leader.
- Ability to lead change, engage employees and create opportunities to involve employees in daily decision-making processes.
- Strong conflict resolution skills with the ability to reach win/win solutions.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Strong technical, planning, problem solving and organizational skills.
- Practical knowledge of best maintenance processes (planning/scheduling, condition-based monitoring) and tools.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
Working Conditions, Psychological and Physical Capacities:
- Office/computer work
- Site work (employee orientation, incident investigations, inspections, audits)
- Walking (working from heights, walking long and short distances on smooth and uneven surfaces, climbing stairs)
Personal Protective Equipment (must be able to wear the following – hard hat, steel toed boots, safety glasses and hearing protection)
Packaging Line Operator (Night Shift)
Purpose:
The Packaging Line Operator is responsible for ensuring the packaging line operates efficiently, ensuring quality and productivity targets are met.
Duties:
- Verify product to be put through the line, which includes preparing Vision System
- Monitor all aspects of the line including watching for error signals
- Ensure throughout the day that glue pot is kept full
- May be required to cull cans from reject station
- Confirm correct code is entered in the label printer
- For those lines with Robotics, set up robot for the product to run, for all other lines, including robotics, check parameters, speeds, carton size
- Ensure carton jacket is filled
- May be required to do visual production inspections
- May be assigned other duties as required.
Requirements:
- Must be physically able to push/pull full carts of finished product
- Must be able to work the scheduled, assigned times and required overtime for the position
- Must be willing to work various shifts when needed
- Must have basic computer skills
- Must be able to lift up to a maximum of 40 lbs.
- Must be reliable, honest, alert and safety conscience.
- Must have good attendance and reliability.
- Ability to work independently, assume responsibility and can remain calm under pressure.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be legally allowed to work in Canada.
- Note: must be available to train on the dayshift for multiple weeks before transferring to the second shift.
Working Conditions and Physical Capacities:
This position can be physically demanding with a combination of standing and/or walking on cement floors for extended periods of time. Additionally, lifting upwards of 40 lbs. can be expected to handle boxed product. Legible writing is required for proper documentation. Computer literacy to operate computerized equipment is expected. Periods of high noise levels can be expected at times.
Company Benefits:
- Company Sponsored Pension.
- Comprehensive Benefit Package (Available upon Completion of Probationary Period).
Scissor Packer (Piecework)
Fish Plant Workers – NOC 9463
Purpose:
Our Hand Packers are team members responsible for manually packing, and occasionally cutting, our raw product (fish steaks, fish fillets, precut fish, and/or whole fish) into designated cans based on the daily production requirements. These packers are responsible for ensuring the daily production quota is fulfilled to the best of their ability. These Packers pack, or cut, the product for further processing and packaging. They are responsible for visually inspecting the product that reaches them to identify any defects, issues, or problems with the product that render it unfit for further packing. They ensure their product follows Company standards before processing it at their designated workstation. Additionally, they may be tasked with packing their received product according to daily weight requirements (in the case of fish steaks and precut fish), or further cutting their received fish for packing (in the case of fish fillets and whole fish). Lastly, the Hand Packers are responsible for ensuring the cans provided are in good condition (meaning there are no defects, dents, or rips of the can).
Duties:
- Manually packing processed fish (steaks/precuts) into designated cans.
- Manually cutting fish product to daily specifications (fillets/whole fish).
- Manually packing their cut product into designated cans.
- Visually checking received raw product for defects/issues with quality.
- Ensuring product is in accordance with Company standards.
- Ensuring product cans comply to Company standards (no rips, tears, defects, dents, peeling).
- Ensuring placed product conform to daily weight requirements.
- Packing to meet the daily production quota (to the best of their ability).
Requirements:
- Must be physically capable of standing, and/or walking for extended periods of time.
- Must be physically capable of packing by hand (this will require some dexterity/movement of all fingers).
- Must be capable of inspecting fish product (raw or processed) for defects.
- Must be capable of following Company policies and ensuring product conforms to standards.
- Must be capable of handling raw fish product for processing.
- Must be capable of cutting (using Company provided scissors) fish for production (when required).
- Grade 10 education or higher.
- Must be legally allowed to work in Canada.
Working Conditions and Physical Capacities:
This position can be physically demanding at times, with a combination of standing and/or walking for periods of time during the assigned shift on cement floors. Additionally, the use of Company provided scissors (which are kept sharp and rust-free) require workers to be vigilant with clear eyesight (you must be able to clearly see what you are doing, and what is around you, at all times). Excessive noise may be experienced during periods of high production (dependent on machine production within the facility), as well as cold/hot temperatures above the normal level (depending on machine production within the facility).
Company Benefits:
- Company Sponsored Pension.
- Comprehensive Benefit Package (Available upon Completion of Probationary Period).
Piecework Fish Plant Workers – NOC 94142
Purpose:
These positions listed under NOC Code 94142 are piecework paid positions in our Production/Processing Department. These positions have such titles as SAP Packers, or Hand Table Packers, here at the Blacks Harbour Facility. These positions are responsible for manually, or through the use of our cutting machines, cutting/trimming fish for processing/packaging.
These positions can be tasked with packing processed fish (steaks/precuts) into designated containers/cans for weighing/packaging. They are responsible for visually inspecting their received fish product for any issues with quality, and ensuring their product is in accordance with Company standards.
They are responsible for determining the optimal number, and size, of available selections of their fish product. Lastly, they are responsible for cutting their product to daily production specifications, and packing (either by hand or through the use of company machines) their product into containers/cans for weighing.
Duties:
- Manually cutting fish product to daily specifications.
- Operating company cutting machines to cut fish product to daily specifications.
- Manually packing processed fish (steaks/precuts) into designated containers/cans.
- Visually checking received raw product for defects/issues with quality.
- Ensuring product is in accordance with Company standards.
- Determining optimal number, and size, of fish selections.
- Cut sections according to daily specifications.
- Placing product into container/can for weighing.
Requirements:
- Must be physically capable of standing, and/or walking for extended periods of time.
- Must be physically capable of packing by hand (if required).
- Must be capable of inspecting fish product (raw or processed) for defects.
- Must be capable of following company policies and ensuring product conforms to standards.
- Must be capable of handling raw fish product for processing.
- Must be capable of cutting (manually or with company equipment) fish into designated selections for daily production requirements.
Working Conditions & Physical Capacities:
This position can be physically demanding at times, with a combination of standing and/or walking for periods of time during the assigned shift on cement floors. Additionally, the use of Company cutting machines, in addition to manually cutting/trimming equipment, require workers to be vigilant with clear eyesight (you must be able to clearly see what you are doing, and what is around you, at all times). Excessive noise may be experienced during periods of high production (depending on location within the facility), as well as cold/hot temperatures above the normal level (depending on location within the facility).
Company Benefits:
- Our 4-year Collective Agreement is in place to provide annual wage increases of 4%, 3%, 2%, & 2% over the next 4 years (2022 – 2025).
- Overtime rates of 1.5x after 40 hours worked in a single week.
- Employees are paid on a weekly basis.
- Shift premium of an extra $0.75/hour after 3pm (Shift start time of 3pm or later).
- Shift premium of an extra $1.00/hour after 11pm (Shift start time 11pm or later).
- Twelve Company Paid Holidays each year.
- Vacation Entitlement that increases with each year of service.
- A Benefits Plan that allows employees to maintain all medical benefits during lay-off period(s).
- Various work scheduling options (days, afternoons, and evenings).
- Most positions within the facility are Monday – Friday (day shift) with the occasional weekend and overtime.
- On the Job training.
- Company Sponsored Pension.
- Comprehensive Benefit Package (Available upon Completion of Probationary Period).
Please feel free to send along a resume, or application, to any of the following places:
By Mail:
Human Resources, Connors Bros., A Division Of Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp.
180 Brunswick Street, Blacks Harbour, N.B. E5H 1G6
By Website:
By clicking on the above “Apply” link.
Hourly Fish Plant Workers – NOC 94142
Purpose:
These positions listed under NOC Code 94142 are hourly paid positions in various departments throughout the facility. These positions are related to positions such as Machine Operators, Quality Control (QC) Inspectors, and Fish Trimmers that exist within the Blacks Harbour Facility.
These positions are responsible for setting up, and operating, machines to clean, cut, cook, smoke, or otherwise process the fish according to daily production requirements. They may also be responsible for setting up, and operating, machines to can, box, or otherwise package the fish product according to order/shipment requirements.
These positions can be responsible for accurately recording any necessary production information, such as the quality, quantity, weight, date, and the type of product packaged. They may also be responsible for manually checking the raw, canned, and/or packaged fish product for defects and ensuring all product conform to Company standards.
Lastly, these positions can be responsible for checking the raw fish product to determine optimal number, and size, of fish selections, in addition to cutting the product to these specifications before placing product in container/cans for weighing.
Duties:
- Setting up, and operating, machines to clean, cut, cook, smoke, or otherwise process fish as per daily requirements.
- Setting up, and operating, machines to can, box, or otherwise package processed fish product.
- Recording product information when necessary, such as:
- Quality of product,
- Quantity of product produced (or incoming),
- Weight of product,
- Date processed/packaged,
- Type of product.
- Manually checking raw, canned, or packaged fish products for defects.
- Ensuring each product checked conforms to Company standards.
- Determining optimal number, and size, of fish selections.
- Cut sections according to daily specifications.
- Placing product into container/can for weighing.
Requirements:
- Must be physically capable of standing, and/or walking for extended periods of time.
- Must be capable of operating various machines to clean, cut, cook, smoke, or otherwise process fish (training provided).
- Must be capable of operating various machines to can, box, or otherwise package processed fish products (training provided).
- Must be able to record necessary information in company logs (either by hand or with computerized equipment).
- Must be capable of inspecting fish product (raw, canned, or packaged) for defects.
- Must be capable of following company policies and ensuring product conforms to standards.
- Must be capable of handling raw fish product for processing.
- Must be capable of cutting (manually or with company equipment) fish into designated selections for daily production requirements.
Working Conditions & Physical Capacities:
This position can be physically demanding at times, with any combination of standing, sitting, walking, crouching, and/or squatting for periods of time during the assigned shift on cement floors. Additionally, operation of company machines may require some pushing, pulling, and/or lifting of weights upwards of 50 lbs. frequently during the assigned shift. Excessive noise may be experienced during periods of high production (depending on location within the facility), as well as cold/hot temperatures above the normal level (depending on location within the facility).
Company Benefits:
- Our 4-year Collective Agreement is in place to provide annual wage increases of 4%, 3%, 2%, & 2% over the next 4 years (2022 – 2025).
- Overtime rates of 1.5x after 40 hours worked in a single week.
- Employees are paid on a weekly basis.
- Shift premium of an extra $0.75/hour after 3pm (Shift start time of 3pm or later).
- Shift premium of an extra $1.00/hour after 11pm (Shift start time 11pm or later).
- Twelve Company Paid Holidays each year.
- Vacation Entitlement that increases with each year of service.
- A Benefits Plan that allows employees to maintain all medical benefits during lay-off period(s).
- Various work scheduling options (days, afternoons, and evenings).
- Most positions within the facility are Monday – Friday (day shift) with the occasional weekend and overtime.
- On the Job training.
- Company Sponsored Pension.
- Comprehensive Benefit Package (Available upon Completion of Probationary Period).
Please feel free to send along a resume, or application, to any of the following places:
By Mail:
Human Resources, Connors Bros., A Division Of Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp.
180 Brunswick Street, Blacks Harbour, N.B. E5H 1G6
By Website:
By clicking on the above “Apply” link.
Canning Fish Plant Workers – NOC 95107
Purpose:
The positions listed under NOC Code 95107 are hourly paid positions in various departments throughout the facility. These positions are Heavy Labor positions so applicants can be expected to perform duties related to any and all heavy labor duties.
These positions can be responsible for unloading incoming fish from our fishing vessels as well as transporting the unloaded fish into our processing area for work. They may also be responsible for transporting both our canned goods, and company supplies, throughout the facility (our Plant/Processing areas in addition to our Warehouse areas) manually or through the use of powered equipment (lift trucks or hand lifts).
They can also be tasked with manually handling our frozen fish products, and manually handling our fresh fish products for freezing (for later production requirements). They can be tasked with sorting incoming fish by size, weight, and final destination according to daily production requirements. These positions can be responsible for weighing our canned products to ensure the proper weight specifications are met each day. These positions can be responsible for weighing, recording each weight, and packing our fish in ice. Lastly, these positions can be tasked with measuring, and dumping, ingredients into the hoppers of our mixing & grinding machines.
Duties:
- Unloading fish from fishing vessels.
- Transporting unloaded fish to processing work areas.
- Transporting canned goods and company supplies throughout the facility.
- Manually handling frozen fish for processing.
- Manually handling fresh fish for freezing.
- Sorting incoming fish by production requirements (size, weight, location).
- Weighing canned goods to ensure weight requirements/specifications are met.
- Weighing, recording, and packing fish into ice.
Requirements:
- Must be physically capable of heavy labor.
- Must be physically capable of lifting weights upwards of 50 lbs. frequently.
- Must be physically capable of bending, crouching, and/or squatting frequently.
- Must be physically capable of standing and/or walking for extended periods of time.
- Must be physically capable of pushing and/or pulling with a hand lift.
- Must be physically capable of holding, lifting, and/or pushing fish products (both frozen and fresh).
- Must be able to sort fish by daily specifications (weight, size, etc.).
- Must be able to operate a company weight scale.
- Must be able to record all documented weights in company logs (either by hand or with computerized equipment).
Working Conditions & Physical Capacities:
This position can be physically demanding at times, with any combination of standing, sitting, walking, crouching, and/or squatting for periods of time during the assigned shift on cement floors. Additionally, lifting, pulling, and/or pushing weights upwards of 50 lbs. frequently during the duration of the shift can be expected. Excessive noise may be experienced during periods of high production (depending on location within the facility), as well as cold/hot temperatures above the normal level (depending on location within the facility).
Company Benefits:
- Our 4-year Collective Agreement is in place to provide annual wage increases of 4%, 3%, 2%, & 2% over the next 4 years (2022 – 2025).
- Overtime rates of 1.5x after 40 hours worked in a single week.
- Employees are paid on a weekly basis.
- Shift premium of an extra $0.75/hour after 3pm (Shift start time of 3pm or later).
- Shift premium of an extra $1.00/hour after 11pm (Shift start time 11pm or later).
- Twelve Company Paid Holidays each year.
- Vacation Entitlement that increases with each year of service.
- A Benefits Plan that allows employees to maintain all medical benefits during lay-off period(s).
- Various work scheduling options (days, afternoons, and evenings).
- Most positions within the facility are Monday – Friday (day shift) with the occasional weekend and overtime.
- On the Job training.
- Company Sponsored Pension.
- Comprehensive Benefit Package (Available upon Completion of Probationary Period).
Please feel free to send along a resume, or application, to any of the following places:
By Mail:
Human Resources, Connors Bros., A Division Of Clover Leaf Seafoods Corp.
180 Brunswick Street, Blacks Harbour, N.B. E5H 1G6
By Website:
By clicking on the above “Apply” link.