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Work for a dynamic and exciting company and enjoy the challenges of working on a variety of equipment in a fast-paced environment.
Progressive and Committed
Over 600 employees in the five manufacturing facilities across Canada. We’re progressive and are committed to safety and employee well-being.
Top-Notch Benefits
Providing a competitive wage and benefit package, including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, as well as a company pension plan.
Wellness Incentives
Offering fitness incentives, wellness programs, signing bonus, retention bonus, and employee referral programs, and a friendly work environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Canada Job Openings
Quality Assurance and Process Control Manager
Langley, BC
VP of Operations West
Overview
This full-time position plays a key leadership role in driving quality standards, food safety compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the manufacturing process. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing organization that values operational excellence and professional development.
- Lead internal and external quality initiatives to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction; investigate and resolve quality-related concerns and complaints.
- Supervise inspection and testing activities to maintain high product quality standards.
- Analyze statistical data and product specifications to establish quality standards and reliability expectations.
- Provide technical and statistical support to Production and Operations teams.
- Develop, document and maintain quality control standards and continuous improvement objectives.
- Partner with Operations Managers to align production processes with quality objectives while minimizing costs.
- Establish and implement inspection criteria, procedures and testing protocols.
- Oversee quality control activities throughout the production cycle.
- Investigate root causes of quality issues and implement corrective actions; communicate findings to Sales, customers and operational stakeholders.
- Apply Total Quality Management tools and methodologies to reporting and analysis processes.
- Oversee and maintain the GMP/GFSI systems and Food Safety Program.
- Control and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Collaborate with vendors to ensure quality of purchased materials and components.
- Lead environmental testing functions and applications as required.
- Actively participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
- Develop and deliver quality control training programs for employees
Pricing Analyst
Rexdale, ON
Overview
We are looking for a Pricing Analyst to join our team and play a central role in managing and optimizing pricing across our diverse product lines. This position is responsible for maintaining, reviewing, and analyzing customer prices, trade programs, and margins for our Canadian, US and other international markets.
If you love working with data, collaborating across departments, and seeing the direct impact of your work on profitability, this role will put you at the heart of our decision-making.
- Pricing & Analysis
- Review incoming pricing requests from Sales for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with policy.
- Analyze historical sales, current pricing, budgets, and forecasts to evaluate the impact of proposed changes on customers, markets, and profitability.
- Conduct what-if analysis, break-even studies, ROI calculations, and margin impact assessments.
- Provide well-supported recommendations or highlight risks for the Pricing Committee.
- Decision Support & Collaboration
- Build and present clear, data-driven pricing packages for review by Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Plant Operations, and Executives.
- Partner with internal teams to review and develop customer pricing contracts and supply agreements.
- Support external financial audits, deductions management, and tax implications of international sales opportunities (in collaboration with external advisors).
- Support small- and large-scale customer pricing audits and contribute to ongoing governance improvements.
- Systems & Data Management
- Use ERP (Ross) and Power BI to work with large, complex data sets.
- Maintain pricing databases and tools (excel tracking files); ensure approved pricing is loaded into ERP and updated accurately.
- Generate pricing documentation for Sales and Customer Care and manage overrides as needed.
- Monitor expiring pricing and coordinate renewals with Sales.
Plant Cost Accountant
Rexdale, ON
Director of Finance Operations
Overview
We are seeking a Plant Cost Accountant to join our finance team. Reporting to the Director of Finance Operations, the Plant Cost Accountant is responsible for financial activities within the production facility, including cost accounting, inventory valuation, and reporting. This role ensures accurate tracking of production costs, supports operational decisions, and maintains compliance with internal governance and regulatory standards.
- Inventory & Cost Accounting
- Maintain and update standard costs for raw materials, labor, and overhead.
- Prepare variance analysis between actual and standard costs.
- Monitor production expenses and identify gaps with standards rates.
- Oversee inventory accuracy, counts, valuation, and reconciliation. Among others, including monitoring of timely goods received and manufacturing jobs closing.
- Support new product costing.
- Maintain products master data and records, including part codes creations and recipes updates.
- Respond to inventory-related inquiries from operations, sales, and supply chain teams.
- Liaise with the head office to solve inventory related AP concerns.
- Manage and perform month end calculations, accruals, reconciliations and postings.
- Assist in preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for plant operations.
- Budgets and Forecasts
- Prepare standards and variances per part codes and totals by substrate at a plant level.
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Support budgeting and forecasting processes for overheads. - Provide detailed cost reports for plant management and corporate finance.
- Prepare standards and variances per part codes and totals by substrate at a plant level.
- Compliance & Internal Controls
- Ensure adherence to company policies and GAAP standards.
- Assist with internal and external audits.
- Maintain strong internal controls over financial transactions.
- Cross-Plant Collaboration & Best Practices
- Provide cross-plant support for cost accounting activities, to ensure continuity of reporting and controls during absences or periods of increased demand.
- Share best practices and process improvements across plants to support consistent, high-quality cost
accounting and operational reporting. - Contribute to knowledge sharing, documentation, and training efforts to build bench strength and
support long-term capability within Operations Finance.
- Operational Support
- Collaborate with operations and supply chain teams to optimize cost efficiency.
- Provide financial insights for capital projects and operational improvements.
- Support ERP system updates and ensure data integrity.
Industrial Mechanics (Millwrights)
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Maintenance Supervisor
Overview
The incumbent is responsible for the installation, removal, repair, and preventive maintenance of rotating equipment within the manufacturing floor.- Troubleshoots, repairs, replaces, and installs various types of pulp molding machinery, as well as pumps, motors, fans, compressors, shafts, pulleys, hoists, conveyors, and other related rotating equipment.
- Performs preventive maintenance on above referenced equipment
- Performs all duties in accordance with the current Nova Scotia Occupational Health and Safety Act; as well as, Government rules and regulations, and Company Policies
- Â Holds a valid Millwright certificate of qualification recognized by the Nova Scotia Department of Education
- Five years recent and related journeyperson experience in a corrective and preventive maintenance environment
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Accounts Payable Lead
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Manager of Financial Reporting
Overview
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Accounts Payable (AP) Lead to join our Hantsport finance team in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Reporting, this role is responsible for the accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices, ensuring purchase order (PO) compliance, leveraging automation tools, and working closely with plant operations to resolve discrepancies. The AP Specialist will play a key role in driving process efficiency, strengthening internal controls, and supporting overall cash flow management.
- Invoice & Payment Processing
• Accurately process vendor invoices in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Ensure all invoices are properly matched against purchase orders (3-way match: PO, receipt, and invoice).
• Monitor and manage AP automation workflows, identifying and resolving exceptions.
• Prepare and process weekly payment runs (ACH, wire, cheque) in compliance with approval policies. - Vendor & Plant Communication
• Serve as the first point of contact for vendor inquiries on invoice status and payments.
• Collaborate with plant personnel to investigate invoice/PO discrepancies, missing receipts, or price/quantity mismatches.
• Escalate unresolved issues to procurement, plant management, or finance leadership as required. - Compliance & Reporting
• Maintain accurate AP records and supporting documentation for audit and compliance purposes.
• Assist in implementing internal controls and ensuring adherence to company policies. - Continuous Improvement
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives to improve AP accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency.
• Recommend process improvements to enhance visibility of outstanding liabilities and plant-level spend.
• Support finance projects related to vendor terms optimization, working capital, and cash forecasting.
Pricing Analyst
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Overview
We are looking for a Pricing Analyst to join our team and play a central role in managing and optimizing pricing across our diverse product lines. This position is responsible for maintaining, reviewing, and analyzing customer prices, trade programs, and margins for our Canadian, US and other international markets.
If you love working with data, collaborating across departments, and seeing the direct impact of your work on profitability, this role will put you at the heart of our decision-making.
- Pricing & Analysis
- Review incoming pricing requests from Sales for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with policy.
- Analyze historical sales, current pricing, budgets, and forecasts to evaluate the impact of proposed changes on customers, markets, and profitability.
- Conduct what-if analysis, break-even studies, ROI calculations, and margin impact assessments.
- Provide well-supported recommendations or highlight risks for the Pricing Committee.
- Decision Support & Collaboration
- Build and present clear, data-driven pricing packages for review by Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, Plant Operations, and Executives.
- Partner with internal teams to review and develop customer pricing contracts and supply agreements.
- Support external financial audits, deductions management, and tax implications of international sales opportunities (in collaboration with external advisors).
- Support small- and large-scale customer pricing audits and contribute to ongoing governance improvements.
- Systems & Data Management
- Use ERP (Ross) and Power BI to work with large, complex data sets.
- Maintain pricing databases and tools (excel tracking files); ensure approved pricing is loaded into ERP and updated accurately.
- Generate pricing documentation for Sales and Customer Care and manage overrides as needed.
- Monitor expiring pricing and coordinate renewals with Sales.
ERP Support Analyst
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Manager of ERP Systems and Data
Overview
As the ERP Support Analyst, you will provide functional and technical support to end users across key business areas including purchasing, inventory, production, and warehousing. You will be responsible for diagnosing system issues, analyzing data, and occasionally debugging code to identify and resolve problems. Your work will be essential to ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and smooth operation of our ERP system on a daily basis.
- Act as the first point of contact for ERP-related issues and change requests.
- Troubleshoot and resolve user issues across purchasing, inventory, production, warehousing, and related business areas.
- Investigate data and process discrepancies to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
- Debug ERP code or perform light development work (minor edits or adjustments) when required.
- Document issues, resolutions, and best practices to maintain consistency and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with business users, IT, and developers to support problem-solving and small system enhancements.
- Assist with system testing, updates, and process improvements.
- Provide user guidance and training as needed to improve ERP understanding and utilization.
Industrial Energy Manager
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Plant Engineer
Overview
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing energy management services and technical support to CKF’s Nova Scotia operations, working with staff engineering and production teams to promote energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.
- Business Development
- Lead ongoing informal team discovery sessions, identify energy savings opportunities and upcoming projects to develop business cases. Business cases will recommend projects, measures, and incentive programs to the client that align with their objectives.
- Support key stakeholders in energy management planning. Support implementation of energy efficiency projects and influence policy through developing an understanding of the organization’s budgetary, procurement, and production policies related to energy management.
- Deliver presentations and generate reports as required by CFK and EfficiencyOne regarding outlining project status, energy management opportunities, and achievements to date.
- Engineering Data Analysis
- Utilizing available production information and other energy data to track energy usage and identify energy-saving opportunities.
- Supporting the implementation of production controls and equipment changes that result in energy savings through developing an understanding of the mechanical and electrical systems within client facilities.
- Complete technical audits, evaluate energy efficiency technologies, perform feasibility studies.
- Project Management
- Responsible for coordinating and administering EfficiencyOne project documentation, incentive applications, and project development agreements.
- Act as project manager for all energy-related capital projects, including liaison to energy service consultants, contractors, and manufacturers.
- Responsible for supporting the development of energy efficiency projects and initiatives prioritized by plant management.
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please submit your resume and cover letter, clearly articulating how you meet the above-noted qualifications.
Receptionist
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Manager of Financial Accounting
Overview
We are seeking a Receptionist to join our Finance team in Hantsport, NS. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Accounting, the Receptionist serves as the first point of contact for visitors and employees entering the secure office and plant complex. This role is responsible for managing access control, handling incoming calls, coordinating calendars, and supporting administrative tasks to ensure smooth office operations.
- Visitor & Access Management
- Sign in and sign out all visitors, contractors, and employees entering/exiting the secure facility.
- Monitor and manage plant gates to ensure compliance with security protocols.
- Maintain accurate visitor logs and access records.
- Phone & Communication
- Answer and manage the main phone line promptly and professionally.
- Direct calls and provide general information to callers.
- Courier & Mail Handling
- Receive, sort, and distribute incoming mail and packages.
- Coordinate courier pickups and deliveries.
- Calendar & Meeting Room Management
- Schedule and manage meeting rooms and appointments.
- Assist with organizing internal meetings and events.
- Accounts Payable Support
- Process invoices and assist with AP documentation as required.
- Liaise with the finance team to ensure timely payments.
- Petty Cash Management
- Maintain and reconcile petty cash funds in accordance with company policies.
- Track and report petty cash transactions accurately.
- Bank Deposits
- Prepare and process bank deposits for the Windsor location in accordance with company procedures.
- Ensure accuracy and timely completion of deposit documentation and reconciliation.
- Administrative Projects
- Work on projects with various departments as needed.
- Support office initiatives and maintain office supplies.
U.S. Job Openings
Product Development Engineer
Clinton, IA
Engineering Manager
Overview
The product development engineer is responsible for translating customer needs, ideas and requirements into functional prototypes and/or finished products, from concept though manufacturing integration. This position collaborates with internal and external customers to create solutions that can be successfully executed through manufacturing while meeting or exceeding performance and cost targets. The scope will involve creation of 2D or 3D design and electronic model in CAD software, tool fabrication oversight, validation and manufacturing integration.
- Collaborate with customer to define project scope, expectations, and requirements; lead design reviews; and support product validations.
- Interface with Customer, Sales, Manufacturing at two locations and Engineering team members.
- Create 2D/3D product designs, including electronic CAD models in SolidWorks, ensuring that designs align with factory capabilities, capacity and core competencies
- Conduct product design reviews with customers, internally and with suppliers
- Create multi-cavity product design information in SolidWorks to facilitate tool design and fabrication
- Develop & participate in manufacturing process development
- Create manufacturing work instructions and process control documentation
- Work with manufacturing in the realization on continuous improvement projects
- Support problem resolution, determining root cause with effective documentation and countermeasure planning based on engineering disciplines.
- Coordinate/conduct product validation testing including dimensional documentation.
- Participate in new technology investigations
- Coordinate and drive multiple projects per required schedule and budget.
- Establish personal development need and execution schedule for learning.
Production Supervisor, Shift 3
Clinton, IA
Plant Manager
Overview
As a Production Shift Supervisor, you will lead and direct all aspects of production on the assigned shift. Directly, and through subordinate staff, you will be responsible for the safety, training, and development of our production teams. You will serve as a Leadership resource to your Working Team Leads by providing knowledge, experience, motivation, support and advice.
- Oversee departmental personnel by making daily decisions regarding the scheduling of people, equipment and materials to achieve delivery, quality and cost objectives.
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities for production and / or manufacturing in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Plays an active role in hiring, training employees; planning, assigning and directing work. May be involved in appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing and initiating corrective action measures to address complaints and resolve problems.
- Explain and enforce company policies and rules; maintain discipline, morale and harmonious employee relations, administer disciplinary action for rule violations, misconduct, absenteeism, or deficient performance.
- Make recommendations on hiring and developing high potential employees by mentoring and providing training paths.
- Lead weekly department shift meetings with all personnel and daily meetings with WTL’s to stay ahead of ongoing issues & audit their responsibilities.
- Develop and maintain training standards with Leads, Operators, Pulpers and Packers in the areas of safety, quality and productivity.
• Track performance expectations: making sure that daily shift responsibilities are being met and monitored. - Identify production shortfalls early & work with Plant Manager to course correct
- Communicates with cross functional departments as required (Buyer, Maintenance, Customer Service, HR, Engineering, etc.)
- Monitors on-time delivery performance and supports review of quality problems (both customer complaints and internal CARs) with production employees to identify root cause, and implementation of training directives to prevent re-occurrence of the issue.
- Maintains initiatives designed to increase safety awareness with the production department by ensuring safety audits are routinely performed, identifies safety improvements, actively participates in the safety team and is an active resource to the safety program.
- Monitors key performance metrics such as scrap, downtime and throughput, and identifies and implements improvements to drive results.
- Works with Team Leads if safety issues originate in their areas and ensure injury reports are completed correctly.
- Provides training as needed to communicate safety practices and policies.
- Implement and monitor workplace organization by continuously seeking out cost reductions and recommending improvements to procedures, processes, equipment and layout.
Maintenance Technician
El Paso, TX
Maintenance Manager
Overview
Responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the sites business goals and objectives.
- Performs highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and facilities equipment.
- Provides emergency and unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production.
- Performs scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
- Completes maintenance work orders, submitting to manager and/or entering into maintenance software, as required.
- Performs mechanical skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, hvac, troubleshooting and repair of production equipment.
- Understands and troubleshoots and/or replaces or repairs PLC controllers.
- Reads and interprets manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Diagnoses problems, replaces and repairs parts, tests and makes adjustments
- Performs regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and plant facilities.
- Performs a variety of plumbing maintenance and carpentry functions
- Uses a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- Detects faulty operations, defective materials and reports unusual situations to appropriate supervisor.
- Complies with safety regulations and maintains clean and orderly work place.
- Supports employee training and development in total productive/predictive maintenance.
- Updates employees and team on the status of requested maintenance support.
- Completes corrective action reports as required.
- Performs all other duties as assigned or needed.
- IMPORTANT NOTES
- CKF Inc. will request proof of education and perform Criminal Background Checks on potential employees.
- We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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