Production Assistant

Wholesome Kids Catering is a leading provider of nutritious, delicious, and thoughtfully prepared meals and snacks for childcare centres and schools. Our team is committed to food safety, exceptional service, and creating healthy meals that children love.

Join Wholesome Kids Catering and become part of One Team One Dream as we deliver healthy food and exceptional service—one meal at a time!

Position Title:

Production Associate (PA) Nights - Markham

Reports To:

Production Supervisor

Direct Reports:
None

Available

Shifts:

9:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m.

Vacation:
Two weeks of vacation per year plus five paid Wellness Days

Flexibility may be required to support operational needs, training, production demands, audits, special projects, and coverage across shifts.

As a Production Associate, you will contribute to the daily production of thousands of nutritious meals and snacks in a fast-paced, high-volume food manufacturing and commissary kitchen environment.

You will work collaboratively with Production Leads, Supervisors, and fellow team members to ensure products are prepared, assembled, packaged, labelled, staged, and distributed safely and efficiently. You will help ensure that every product meets Wholesome Kids Catering’s food safety, quality, accuracy, and customer service standards before it leaves our facility.

Production Operations

• Assemble meals, snacks, and meal components according to daily production schedules, work instructions, production plans, recipes, and customer specifications.
• Accurately count, portion, weigh, sort, assemble, label, and package products while maintaining established quality and quantity standards.
• Verify product quantities, production labels, packaging materials, route information, and customer orders to ensure accuracy before distribution.
• Pack meals and snacks efficiently while maintaining product quality, presentation, packaging integrity, and temperature-control standards.
• Organize and stage completed products for shipping according to route schedules, customer requirements, and delivery timelines.
• Replenish ingredients, labels, packaging materials, containers, and other supplies to support a continuous and efficient production workflow.
• Safely transport products, ingredient bins, rolling racks, carts, pallets, and production materials throughout the facility.
• Rotate between production areas and workstations based on daily schedules, operational requirements, and production priorities.
• Assist with inventory movement, product transfers, and stock replenishment while maintaining product traceability and inventory accuracy.
• Process returned products according to company procedures, document discrepancies, and elevate concerns when required.
• Maintain accurate production records, counts, labels, checklists, and other required documentation.
• Consistently work toward daily production targets while maintaining exceptional quality, accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail.

Food Safety, Quality and Compliance

• Follow all Standard Operating Procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP requirements, allergen-control procedures, and company food safety policies.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness, personal hygiene, sanitation, and safe food handling throughout all production activities.
• Verify that products meet company requirements for appearance, portion size, weight, packaging, labelling, quality, temperature, and order accuracy.
• Recognize and immediately report quality concerns, product defects, packaging issues, contamination risks, equipment malfunctions, shortages, and production delays.
• Follow colour-coding, utensil-control, handwashing, glove-changing, and sanitation requirements when moving between products…