Join the Team
Basic Grain is hiring across production, maintenance, quality, logistics, procurement, and people operations. If you value safety, consistency, and meaningful work, we would like to hear from you.
We are a grain manufacturing company serving food producers across Canada and North America. Our people keep mill operations safe, efficient, and dependable every shift — from grain receiving and ingredient processing to packaging, quality verification, maintenance, and shipping.
At Basic Grain, careers are built through consistency and trust. We invest in structured onboarding, food-safety training, cross-training across departments, and clear growth paths for employees who want to take on more responsibility over time.
Whether you are an experienced tradesperson, a production professional, a quality specialist, or a candidate moving into grain manufacturing for the first time, we look for people who are reliable, curious, and ready to contribute to a strong team environment.
Most roles are based in Burnaby, British Columbia, with a mix of day, evening, night, and rotating schedules depending on the department.
We hire for dependable performance, team mindset, and attention to detail. In return, we aim to provide a stable, respectful workplace with room to grow.
Essential food production creates dependable demand across receiving, milling, blending, packaging, sanitation, warehouse, and shipping functions.
New hires receive structured onboarding, food safety orientation, equipment-specific instruction, and opportunities to move into lead or supervisory responsibilities.
Our teams operate in a highly disciplined food manufacturing environment with strong procedures for sanitation, documentation, preventive maintenance, and safe material handling.
We hire beyond the production floor too — including procurement, logistics coordination, quality assurance, laboratory support, administration, and human resources.
For qualified candidates applying from outside Canada, Positive LMIA support is available for select roles where local hiring needs remain difficult to fill. This is typically considered for experienced applicants in production, industrial maintenance, raw material handling, and warehouse operations.
Availability depends on the role, your directly relevant experience, English communication ability, and current Government of Canada program requirements and processing timelines. We review each case carefully and only proceed where the role and candidate fit are strong.
If you are applying internationally, highlight your manufacturing background, equipment experience, certifications, shift flexibility, and any food processing or grain handling experience in your application.
Send the materials that help our team assess practical fit quickly and accurately.
Below is a representative list of the roles we are actively hiring for across our grain manufacturing and support teams. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply even if their experience overlaps more than one position.
Operations
Operate grain cleaning, milling, sifting, and ingredient transfer equipment while maintaining tight quality, yield, and sanitation standards.
Packaging
Run bagging, sealing, labelling, and palletizing operations for food-grade grain products in bulk and retail-ready formats.
Operations Leadership
Lead shift performance across production targets, safety, scheduling, quality escalation, and team coordination on the plant floor.
Maintenance
Maintain conveyors, bucket elevators, bagging lines, mixers, motors, and preventive-maintenance programs that keep the facility running reliably.
Maintenance
Support plant reliability through electrical maintenance, troubleshooting, motor controls, sensors, and production equipment diagnostics.
Quality Assurance
Conduct in-process checks, finished-product verification, GMP inspections, and documentation reviews to support SQF-aligned operations.
Sanitation & Food Safety
Lead cleaning schedules, allergen-changeover procedures, sanitation verification, and night-shift readiness for food-safe startup each day.
Warehouse
Move ingredients and finished goods safely across storage, staging, and outbound loading zones while supporting inventory accuracy.
Supply Chain
Coordinate carrier bookings, shipment paperwork, scheduling, customer communication, and warehouse dispatch for outbound orders.
Raw Material Handling
Receive inbound grain, oversee unloading, monitor silo allocation, and support raw material traceability from arrival to production release.
Procurement
Support grower, ingredient, and packaging purchasing activities through vendor coordination, order tracking, document control, and internal follow-up.
Human Resources
Support hiring, onboarding, employee files, scheduling coordination, and internal communication across plant and office teams.
Operations Leadership
Support shift leadership, production reporting, labour coordination, and issue escalation across packaging and milling lines.
Blending
Prepare multi-grain and functional ingredient blends to formula, verify ingredient usage, and maintain batch accuracy through changeovers.
Operations
Stage and weigh dry ingredients for production lots while supporting recipe verification, allergen segregation, and line readiness.
Packaging
Operate packing equipment for flour, bran, and milled ingredients while maintaining fill accuracy, bag integrity, and pallet quality.
Packaging
Support end-of-line packaging by stacking finished product, wrapping outbound pallets, and preparing safe, traceable loads for warehouse transfer.
Maintenance
Execute scheduled inspections, lubrication, parts replacement, and reliability tasks that reduce unplanned downtime across plant assets.
Maintenance
Support sensors, automation interfaces, instrumentation, and troubleshooting for controlled grain movement and packaging equipment.
Utilities
Monitor utility systems that support plant operations, including compressed air, boilers, dust collection, and other critical services.
Quality Assurance
Assist with moisture, physical, and in-process quality testing while supporting sample handling and internal reporting for production release.
Food Safety
Coordinate verification programs, corrective actions, records control, and plant food-safety readiness in support of audits and customer standards.
Warehouse
Maintain lot-level inventory accuracy, perform cycle counts, reconcile transfers, and support traceability between production and warehouse systems.
Receiving
Process inbound paperwork, coordinate deliveries, and support raw material receiving with accurate records and communication.
Yard Operations
Coordinate trailer placement, loading dock movements, and yard readiness to support efficient inbound and outbound operations.
Bulk Loading
Manage tanker, tote, and bulk ingredient loading activities while maintaining correct lot control, sanitation, and outbound documentation.
Procurement
Source and manage bags, liners, labels, corrugate, and related packaging inputs to support production continuity and inventory levels.
Planning
Build production schedules that balance line capacity, raw material availability, customer orders, and changeover efficiency.
Customer Service
Coordinate customer requests, order updates, shipment communication, and internal follow-through between sales, logistics, and operations.
Administration
Support front-office administration, record management, scheduling, visitor coordination, and general plant-office communications.
Health & Safety
Coordinate plant safety initiatives, incident follow-up, training support, and compliance activities across manufacturing and warehouse operations.
Continuous Improvement
Partner with production and maintenance teams to reduce waste, improve uptime, and strengthen standard work across plant operations.
Sanitation & Food Safety
Complete scheduled plant sanitation tasks that protect product integrity and keep production equipment ready for food-safe startup.
Maintenance Planning
Plan work orders, parts readiness, contractor coordination, and maintenance scheduling to support uptime and shutdown execution.
Supply Chain
Support production and inventory planning through reporting, demand review, data analysis, and service-level tracking.
Finance & Administration
Process vendor invoices, reconcile receiving-related paperwork, and support timely payment control for plant and office purchases.
Logistics Documentation
Prepare and control export and cross-border documentation for shipments moving to customers and partners across North America.
Operations
Support formulation execution, ingredient staging, and lot verification for custom grain and seed blends produced to customer specification.
We try to keep the process practical and respectful of your time while making sure the role, shift, and environment are the right fit for both sides.
Our HR team reviews resumes for role fit, shift availability, location, and directly relevant manufacturing or support experience.
Selected candidates are contacted for a short screening conversation focused on experience, schedule, and career goals.
Candidates meet with the relevant manager or department lead to discuss the role, expectations, and work environment.
Successful candidates move into offer review, documentation, and structured onboarding including safety and food-safety orientation.