Careers
Our corporate culture
At Exceldor Cooperative, pride is our watchword.
We work in teams and do our best to ensure the success of not just the industry, but the entire community. At Exceldor Cooperative, we recognize team excellence. It’s important to feel proud and work together to build a better food and environmental future.
Working at Exceldor Cooperative
The benefits of being part of our big family-
Group insurance
Benefit from health coverage that can include prescription drugs, vision care and out‑of‑province emergency care, dental (preventive, basic and children's orthodontics), as well as life disability and accident insurance.
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Social activities
Participate in events throughout the year, such as summer lunches, a holiday‑season party, sports challenges and get-together events. It's a great way for us to strengthen our ties at every workplace.
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Continuous education
We believe in developing our employees' skills. That's why we offer partial or full reimbursement for your continuing education or professional development.
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Pension Plan
Benefit from a pension plan to which the employer contributes. This plan is designed to give you peace of mind in your later years.
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Sick leave
Take advantage of paid sick leave when you need it, so you can focus on your recovery worry‑free.
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Employee assistance program
Enjoy 24/7 access to our Employee and Family Assistance Program. Talk to mental health specialists, get legal and financial advice, and benefit from telemedicine services for you and your family.
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Employee discounts
Take advantage of exclusive discounts at our employee sales, held several times a year. This is a great opportunity to enjoy quality products while saving money!
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Service recognition
Our years of service recognition program highlights your commitment. At each milestone reached, you'll receive a gift, and a celebration will be held to honour these important moments in your career.
“When you work for a cooperative, you create strong bonds with your colleagues.”
Our departments
Our Cooperative’s success depends on the expertise and experience of the employees in every department.They work together every day to make us the Canadian poultry industry’s premier cooperative. We are immensely proud of their commitment and teamwork.
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Procurement
Working within the Exceldor Cooperative Sales team means negotiating shrewdly with our suppliers while maintaining this valuable network of partners. It is about offering the best quality at the best price as soon as possible to guarantee our cooperative’s success.
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Live poultry supply
Live poultry supply is the lifeblood of Exceldor Cooperative. Our team manages farm-to-table supply chain operations going from poultry catching to transportation and ensures that the birds are comfortable at all times.
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Animal welfare
Ensuring animal welfare is fundamental at Exceldor Cooperative. Our team of specialists ensures that birds are treated with respect and dignity from the farm to the plant. We are committed to continuing to develop best practices in the industry and to promote them across the country.
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Communication and marketing
Showcasing Exceldor Cooperative as well as its brands, and products is so exciting! Our Communication and marketing team develops our brand image and implements various strategies and tactics to ensure that we remain a recognized cooperative par excellence in the Canadian poultry industry.
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Finance
Working in Finance at Exceldor Cooperative goes far beyond just accounting! It involves ensuring that financial operations are conducted rigorously and providing decision makers with the right tools so they can make the best decisions for our growth and future.
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Engineering - Processes and continuous improvement
Being part of the engineering team at Exceldor Cooperative is about finding solutions to make our processes even better, optimizing our plants and reducing our carbon footprint, transforming our cooperative with 4.0 industry technologies and robotics, and improving our lives.
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Logistics, transportation and warehousing
Working in the Logistics, warehousing and transportation team at Exceldor Cooperative, means ensuring that our products are transported quickly and stored according to the highest food safety standards while optimizing their circulation to minimize costs and delays for our clients.
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Maintenance
Offering quality products people can be proud to serve, requires efficient, reliable, and safe facilities. Each day, Exceldor Cooperative’s maintenance team plays a key role in helping us push our limits.
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Planning
With over 2 million birds processed every week in all our plants, it is important to be well organized! That is the role of Exceldor Cooperative’s planning team. They have a 360 degree view of all our operations, from the farm to the plant, and from processing to delivery.
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Production
Standing between the farm and the table is the plant. From cutting to trimming, and packaging, our production team at Exceldor Cooperative manages the crucial stages of the productivity and quality of poultry processing. Offering fresh products that people can proudly serve is our daily motivation.
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Quality assurance and control
From farm to table, our quality requirements are aimed at not only meeting but exceeding industry standards. Our promise to clients is to deliver superior quality products each time, with the help of a team devoted to being the very best.
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R&D and Innovation
At Exceldor Cooperative, innovation means testing, imagining, inventing, and launching new products. You’ll be part of an experienced team and work closely with the members of the company's other teams and with our clients. Our team has a modern laboratory and experimental cuisine in which the products that contribute to the company's present and future success are created.
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Human resources
Managing over 3,450 employees across multiple sites takes people who love people! The human resources team at Exceldor Cooperative works to build the organization by recruiting, training and promoting the health, safety and well-being of each of us.
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Customer service
Customer experience is at the core of Exceldor Cooperative. Our experienced Customer service team is tasked with receiving and tracking orders from our restaurant, distribution and retail (groceries and big box stores) clients and always finds the best solutions to satisfy them.
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Information technology
Exceldor Cooperative’s IT infrastructure and support team designs and implements high performance, reliable, and safe technological infrastructure, in the areas of networking, cloud computing or telecommunications to support the operations of all our departments.
The digital shift is crucial for Exceldor Cooperative. Our IT Business solutions team accurately analyzes the needs of our teams and develops innovative and efficient business solutions in information technology, which allow us to go the extra mile for our clients.
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Sales
Being part of the sales team at Exceldor Cooperative means excelling in meeting client needs and offering superior quality service and products to all our clients. It also means maintaining a large network of contacts and being constantly on the lookout for business opportunities to boost growth.
Our events
Share our moments of pride with our family-
Grand Défi Pierre Lavoie, head office – 2018 -
Halloween, head office – 2016 -
Distribution of Christmas turkeys, head office – 2020 -
Sugar shack meals, Saint-Damase – 2018 -
Winner of the Easter contest, Lévis – 2021