Doris Eghan

Over 10 years of experience working in a fast-paced, high volume Food Manufacturing environment as a Production Supervisor, Production Planner, Scheduler, and Supply Chain Manager. Proving excellent customer service and strong ability to multi-task to ensure company goals are achieved.

Production planning / Supply Chain - Amir Quality Meat - Brampton Ontario

(2025-05)

• Assess and determine the facility’s requirements for raw materials, equipment, and labor to support production goals and meet customer demand.
• Develop a feasible daily and weekly production plan by, factoring in customer requirements, available processing capacity, labor, and materials while adhering to product sequencing requirements and optimizing production costs.
• Create and issue work orders to initiate and track production activities, ensuring clarity in production goals and resource allocation.
• Review the production schedule daily, weekly, and monthly to confirm it aligns with business priorities and operational requirements.
• Track and compare actual yield with the targets outlined in the production plan to ensure planning accuracy.
• Analyze variances to identify trends or issues affecting production efficiency and adjust plans to improve yield forecasts and resource utilization.
• Lead weekly meetings to communicate any updates in production schedules, resources, or processes to the team, ensuring everyone is aligned and following best practices.
• Monitor and manage inventory levels for fresh, dry ingredients, and packaging by tracking short-dated products, setting inventory caps, rotating stock, and maintaining real-time visibility on aged and work-in-progress (WIP) items to minimize waste and optimize usage.
• Collaborate with quality control, procurement, sales, logistics, and other departments as needed to maintain efficient workflows.
• Analyze production gaps and utilize PSL (Plant Service Level) reports to provide explanations and recommended actions to the relevant departments.
• Oversee investigations and resolutions related to inventory discrepancies in raw materials and finished products.
• Prepare performance reports, monitor production status, and address any issues impacting production goals.

Supply Chain Manager / Production planning / Scheduling - Embassy Ingredients - Brampton Ontario

(2019-10 - 2025-05)

• Lead and supervise a team of Production planners, schedulers, and operations admin. By organizing, managing, motivating, and challenging the team to work as a team to exceed expectations.
• Lead weekly operations / planning meetings with key players of all cross functional departments to ensure production and planning are aligned, weekly results reviewed, suggestions for improvements discussed, and supply chain interruptions reviewed.
• Producing, maintaining, and executing a valid master production schedule daily and weekly across all departments.
• Ensuring that there is an alignment with customer demand forecasts, customer orders, resources, and capacity constraints all departments by coordinating with key cross functional teams.
• Directly influence daily production requirements for all departments through daily analysis of rush / emergency customer releases to maintain schedule adherence and service levels.
• Review BOM's for existing Manufacturing orders to ensure raw materials are in house and inactive items are removed from BOM’s.
• Monitoring Sales history for finished goods on an ongoing basis and adjusting safety stock, and aging inventories.
• Performing Lean Manufacturing by taking care of the minimum levels of inventory
• Enter work orders and release / schedule work orders as required.
• Investigate and determine root cause of raw material and finish good variances.
• Adjust inventory levels when inventory discrepancies occur and communicate those issues to appropriate department.
• Adjust /modify schedules to accommodate rework, and breakdowns.
• Monitor production to ensure completion of the schedule and close work orders as they are completed.
• Ensure all orders are produced within 5 business days of order entry.
• Ensure all raw materials are in-house for production.
• Create, issue and monitor purchase orders, based on production requirements to ensure timely delivery and maximize freshness of raw materials.
• Be the primary point of contact with the vendor for managing day-to-day activities, including issuing purchasing orders; managing inventory levels; and resolving issues.
• Plan procurement to effectively avoid costly delays and lost sales opportunities.

Production Supervisor - Golden boy foods Ltd - Brampton Ontario

(2014-04 - 2019-09)

• Leads and supervises operations for a high-speed production manufacturing line of 20 to 25 employees.
• Ability to organize, manage, motivate, and challenge a production team to exceed expectations.
• Adhere to and enforce strict company policies and procedures.
• Responsible for development and implementation of operating procedures and continuous improvement programs.
• Engage operations personnel to ensure successful program adoption and sustainability of SQF, GMP's protocols. Part of a management team to successfully pass the SQF 3 audit for Global Food Safety.
• Conducted in-house audits with the quality department on safety, food safety, good housekeeping, and GMP’s and Company policy.
• Established 5's programs which improved line efficiencies and reduced packaging material shortages to zero.
• Implemented SMED projects which reduced changeovers from 3-5 hours to 1-2 hours.
• Maintained proper material usages and investigated any discrepancies. Following all raw material usages, investigated variances as required.
• Managed and control labor for production employees by Approving employee time for payroll.

Production planner / scheduler - Golden boy foods Ltd - Brampton Ontario

(2013-05 - 2014-04)

• Improved time delivery by 20% working with team members to drive process changes in demand management and production activity control.
• Assisted sales and account directors to forecast production and inventory requirements, assessed risk, and purchased materials.
• Created production work orders from company software systems verify validity of work orders to ensure no product is produced that is not truly needed.
• Participated in new project launch meetings on all new products and follow from conception to completion.
• Communicated all information regarding purchase orders to customers and sales team daily, inventory levels, lead times, pricing, shipping information, material requirements, etc.
• Enter orders into the company computer system and verify inventory levels to ensure the due date can be met.
• Effectively balanced time/cost management to achieve timely product delivery.
• Coordinated multiple department meetings to ensure customer commitments were met - managing competing interests, customer demands, maintenance, and support needs.
• Coordinated multiple yearly customer-production schedules and handled last-minute customer requests, changing priorities, equipment limitations and delivery dates.
• Produced, distributed, and communicated immediate and long-range production schedules. Reviewed new work to verify it was compatible with equipment and capacity time.
• Worked closely with all production managers to ensure all personnel and material is fully utilized. Work to keep down time to less than 15%, as well as keep all schedules up to date daily.

Operations Admin - Golden boy foods Ltd - Brampton Ontario

(2012-08 - 2013-05)

• Completing production entries, receiving’s, and transfers in QAD in a timely manner
• Implementing workplace organization and providing office support to the Brampton team to ensure sustainability of processes, systems, and policies.
• Ensuring Office Supplies are maintained.
• Maintained inventory accuracy on packaging materials, peanuts, and ingredients.
• Assisting and back-up production planner/WSR supervisor during vacation and maternity leave or time in need
• Complete purchases of manufacturing and packaging supplies to maintain inventory levels.
• Liaise with IT on behalf of the Brampton team to ensure that IT support is maintained.
• Implement and sustain a 5S program in the mfg./pkg supplies area.
• Trained production supervisors on proper reconciliation of end of shift packaging materials

Quality Assurance - Catalent Pharma Solutions - Philadelphia U.S.A

(2007-02 - 2011-04)

• Promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the company
• Ensuring the documentation as per SOP and FDA requirement
• Daily monitoring of Temperature & Humidity of Stability Chambers
• Conducting Internal audits for compliance with Housekeeping, Safety and on-line documentation
• Handling of Planned and Unplanned deviation and Controlled issuing of production batch documentation
• Review, process, and follow-up on all Change Requests and conducted internal inspection and auditing to ensure compliance with good manufacturing practices (GMP) and for safety regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring that ingredient declarations and Allergen information are maintained in a.