Lead the Team That Creates the World’s Best Paintballs!
At Kore Outdoor, we’re passionate about producing high-performance paintballs used by players around the globe. As our Production Supervisor – Encapsulation, you’ll lead the team responsible for one of the most critical stages of our manufacturing process. You’ll coach employees, oversee daily production, ensure exceptional quality, and create a positive, safety-focused work environment where people can do their best work.
If you’re a hands-on leader who enjoys developing people, solving problems, improving processes, and driving results, we’d love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do
As the Production Supervisor – Encapsulation, you’ll provide leadership for a team of Encapsulation Machine Operators while ensuring production schedules, quality standards, and safety expectations are consistently achieved.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of production employees while fostering a positive, respectful, and accountable work environment.
- Oversee daily production activities to ensure production schedules, quality standards, and efficiency goals are achieved.
- Monitor production performance, equipment utilization, labor efficiency, waste, and downtime, implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Ensure operators are following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), quality standards, and safety procedures.
- Provide hands-on support to the production team by troubleshooting production issues and assisting with machine adjustments when necessary.
- Coordinate production changeovers, cleaning, sanitation, and equipment start-ups with production and maintenance teams.
- Partner with Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Warehouse, and Planning departments to minimize downtime and maximize production efficiency.
- Monitor staffing levels and coordinate daily work assignments to meet production demands.
- Assist in training new employees and provide ongoing coaching and performance feedback to existing team members.
- Complete production reports, shift summaries, attendance documentation, performance discussions, and other required records accurately and on time.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and actively participate in process improvement initiatives.
- Promote and model a strong safety culture by ensuring compliance with all company policies and regulatory requirements.
What It’s Like to Work Here
This isn’t a job where you’ll spend your day behind a desk.
You’ll be on the production floor, working alongside your team, monitoring operations, solving problems, coaching employees, and helping ensure every batch meets our quality expectations.
You’ll be part of a leadership team that values:
- Safety First
- Respect and Accountability
- Teamwork and Communication
- Continuous Improvement
- Quality Without Compromise
- Leadership Through Example
Our production environment is climate-controlled to protect product quality, with temperatures maintained around 20°C, making it comfortable year-round.
What to Expect
- A fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Leading and supporting production employees throughout the shift
- Frequent walking throughout the production floor
- Standing for extended periods
- Occasional climbing of small ladders and maneuvering around equipment
- Responding quickly to production and quality issues
- Casual dress environment with Kore Outdoor apparel provided
- Required use of safety footwear and applicable personal protective equipment
Shift Information
Enjoy a schedule that provides more days off each month than a traditional Monday-Friday position.
12-Hour Rotating Shifts
- Day Shift: 6:50 AM – 6:50 PM
- Sunday to Tuesday and every second Wednesday
- 30-minute unpaid meal break
- Two paid 20-minute breaks each shift
What We’re Looking For
Successful candidates will have:
- Previous supervisory or team leadership experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong leadership, coaching, and employee development skills
- Excellent communication and conflict resolution abilities
- A commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- The ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment
- Mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and production reporting systems
- The ability to motivate teams while maintaining accountability
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement initiatives is considered an asset
- Bilingualism – French and English (Functional proficiency in French and English is required. This position supervises a multilingual workforce and requires frequent verbal and written communication with employees who communicate in either French or English. Bilingual communication is necessary to ensure workplace safety, effective training, operational efficiency, and employee engagement.)
Why Join Kore Outdoor?
In addition to helping create exciting products enjoyed by paintball enthusiasts worldwide, you’ll enjoy a competitive benefits package designed to support you and your family.
Benefits & Perks
- Extended health, dental, and life insurance
- Registered Retirement Savings Program (RRSP)
- Paid time off
- Casual dress environment
- On-site parking
- Company-provided apparel
- Leadership development and advancement opportunities
- A collaborative leadership team committed to continuous improvement
- The opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our people, products, and performance
Lead a Team That Makes a Difference
At Kore Outdoor, our supervisors do more than manage production—they develop people, solve challenges, improve processes, and help create products trusted by paintball players around the world.
If you’re ready to lead by example and build a high-performing team, we’d love to hear from you.
