Sanitation Supervisor

Job Category:

Manufacturing/Operations

Job Family:

Plant Production

Job Description:

Plant sanitation hands-on leader, expert and advocate.

Deploy, monitor and enhance sanitation programs to assure processes are effective and meet company standards.

Lead sanitation crews to include the coordination of CIP and manual cleaning activities, partner training, inspection and continuous process improvement efforts.  

What you’ll do:


* Lead plant sanitation activities.


* Work with sanitation crews as well as leadership, production, maintenance, quality, other functions to effectively clean/sanitize equipment and plant prior to resuming operation.


* Ensure processes are deployed effectively and efficiently.


* Responsible for crew performance through the use of training, coaching and performance feedback to assure delivery of effective sanitation processes


* Monitor compliance through hands-on monitoring, inspection, swabbing and coaching.


* Maintain and administer plant sanitation records; use as a tool to monitor performance and improve sanitation practices based on results.


* Includes but not limited to pre-operation inspection, equipment swabbing, environmental monitoring processes.


* Administer, maintain and monitor conformance to Master Sanitation Schedule.


* Work closely with production and maintenance partners to establish effective sanitation practices necessary to maintain a food safe environment.


* Coordinate training of sanitation and janitorial partners on required job responsibilities.


* Deploy plant training modules; utilize internal resources and external expertise for partner development.


* Work with internal experts and suppliers to evaluate performance of existing suppliers of cleaning agents and technologies.


* Optimize resources through effective scheduling and coordination of lean but effective sanitation processes.


* Maintain a partner safe work environment through deployment and monitoring of JHA, lock-out/tag out and MSDS training and monitoring processes


* Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.

Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.

Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.

Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:


* High School –GED in A technical degree in Food, Dairy, Biology, Chemistry or related field.

Is preferred, but not required.


* 3-7 years of experience in Food Manufacturing environment. 


* Ability to cover department sanitations to provide support to the process and people.

 Coverage to include nights and some days.


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