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What they do

Saputo processes milk into cheese, dairy products, and ingredients. Its postings call it a top 10 global dairy processor and say it brings good to the table by making high-quality products, investing in its people, and supporting communities. The company is based in Montreal. Its plants and distribution centres run across Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

What they value

• Contributions that matter, which is the phrase every posting uses for the work.
• An inclusive and growth-driven workplace, stated in the opening of each posting.
• Hands-on trade skill, because plant maintenance is the largest kind of role.
• Food industry standards, named in postings as 3A standards for dairy.
• Cross-functional planning between sales, operations, finance, and supply.

Where they hire

Of 280 postings, the United States holds 166 and Canada 78. Australia holds 18 and the United Kingdom 17. Canadian sites include Saint-Laurent and Georgetown, plus distribution centres at Vaughan, Orangeville, Tavistock, and St Marys. American sites include Las Cruces and Gustine. Alberta holds Edmonton and Calgary. No posting is remote.

Teams and roles

This is a manufacturing company, and the board shows it: nearly two thirds of the postings are plant work.

• Manufacturing and operations: 166 postings, by far the largest group. These include maintenance mechanics, plant operators, and production supervisors.
• Supply chain: 40 postings, including demand planning for a whole division.
• Quality: 15 postings, which matter in food production.
• Information technology: 13 postings, such as enterprise analytics architects.
• Human resources: 10 postings. Finance holds nine.
• Sales, research and development, and marketing: five postings each.
• Engineering: four postings.
• Retail stores and corporate affairs: two postings each.
• Single postings: strategic business development, legal, and customer service.

What they look for

Maintenance postings list the equipment and the techniques rather than a degree. The maintenance mechanic posting asks you to diagnose machinery faults and repair pumps, motors, gearboxes, and valves, to work on hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, to troubleshoot programmable logic controllers, and to replace instrumentation such as level sensors and proximity sensors. It also asks for welding with wire feed, stick, or TIG, machining on a mill or lathe, welding and polishing stainless steel to the dairy industry's 3A standard, electrical troubleshooting, and operating forklifts and aerial platforms. Planning postings are the opposite and ask for judgment across teams: the senior demand planning manager posting asks you to balance customer needs, commercial opportunities, operational limits, and financial commitments, and to improve forecast accuracy with sales, operations, finance, and supply planning.