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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
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Senior Accountant
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Manager of Financial Accounting
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Accountant to join our Finance team in Hantsport, NS. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Accounting. We offer a collaborative, in-person environment with a focus on accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement. This role suits a detail-oriented, analytical professional who takes ownership and seeks to understand the “why” behind the numbers.
- Partner cross-functionally with teams across the organization, gaining exposure to different areas of the business and contributing to key financial insights
- Play a key role in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, helping deliver timely and accurate financial results
- Prepare high-quality financial reports, working papers, and disclosures in accordance with ASPE standards
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors, gaining valuable exposure to audit processes and best practices
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and strengthen internal controls, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives
- Prepare and review account reconciliations, maintain general ledger accuracy, and investigate variances to ensure data integrity
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, supporting a collaborative and growth-oriented environment
- Prepare and review journal entries, including accruals, intercompany eliminations, and fixed assets
Procurement & Supply Chain Analyst
Annapolis Valley
(less than an hour’s drive from Halifax)
Corporate Manager of Procurement & Inventory
Overview
We are seeking a Procurement & Supply Chain Analyst to join our team in Hantsport, NS. This role provides analytical, operational, and project support across Procurement, Logistics, Planning, and Inventory Control. We are looking for a highly analytical and detail-oriented professional who enjoys working with data, solving problems, and collaborating across teams to improve supply chain performance.
- Planning & Inventory Control
- Maintain, analyze, and report on inventory levels, inventory value, warehousing costs, inventory coverage, and slow-moving SKUs.
- Collaborate with Production Scheduling, Sales, and Customer Care to prioritize customer requirements and loads while balancing inventory availability, production capacity, and transportation needs.
- Develop, maintain, and monitor Slow Moving & Obsolete (SLOB) inventory reporting and coordinate action plans with key stakeholders.
- Analyze forecast versus actual sales to identify trends, variances, and potential supply and demand risks.
- Coordinate product movement between production facilities and maintain reorder points to support appropriate inventory levels and customer fill rates.
- Procurement
- Identify opportunities for supplier, specification, purchasing, and material rationalization to reduce costs and improve supply reliability
- Support sourcing and quotation activities by preparing cost comparisons, supplier analyses, and recommendations for Procurement leadership
- Reporting, Data & Market Analysis
- Prepare recurring management reports, analyses, and presentations for Procurement and Supply Chain leadership
- Support cost analyses, business cases, financial evaluations, and other analytical requirements associated with Procurement and Supply Chain initiatives
- Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, systems, reporting, supplier performance, inventory management, freight efficiency, and operational workflows
- Logistics
- Provide backup support for inbound freight coordination, including the transportation of parts, equipment, and machinery.
- Coordinate inbound freight for raw materials, including transportation arrangements, documentation, and customs clearance requirements.
- Provide vacation coverage for outbound freight activities, including freight quoting, shipment tracking, cost analysis, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
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.
Maintenance Technician, Shift 3
Clinton, IA
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.
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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