Sanitation Manager

Job Category:

Quality

Job Family:

Enterprise Quality and Food Safety

Job Description:

As the Sanitation Team Leader (Manager) you will be responsible for leading the development, compliance, training, problem solving, best practices and technical support in the area of food safety and sanitation at the designated plant.

You will work with operations, technology groups, chemical suppliers and contractors to ensure equipment, processes and the plant environment is suitably designed, maintained, and cleaned and monitored for food safety.

What you’ll do:


* Direct and train Plant Sanitarians, Sanitation Partners, and Janitorial Partners. 


* Interface with plant leaders as well as Enterprise Quality to develop qualified teams which effectively and efficiently provide a sanitary operating environment.     


* Assist in the development of SSOP's, MSS, CIP processes and related SOP's in all departments.

Perform troubleshooting and provide assistance with CIP programming validation


* Review and analyze data in EQMS/eAM from pathogen monitoring, MSS, Pre-Op inspections, food safety audits (internal, third party, customer, and Regulatory), customer complaints as well as other sources, and utilize this data to identify trends and take CAPA -corrective/preventive actions.


* Proactively utilize process metrics and experience to prevent problems that could affect product quality and safety.


* Investigate potential sanitation issues, which may result in product contamination, reduced shelf-life, or customer complaints or rejection of products.

Assist in the identification of root cause and corrective actions.


* Work closely with Engineering, Enterprise Quality and equipment vendors to assure that new or modified equipment meets sanitary design and regulatory requirements prior to purchase and installation.


* Validate that equipment modifications or new equipment can effectively be cleaned and sanitized to a microbial level.


* Work closely with sanitation chemical providers and Pest Management contractors to maximize technical expertise and to drive results while being cost effective.


* Lead plant sanitation verification and auditing process including Environmental Monitoring.

Work with appropriate Partners to address and resolve deficiencies.


* Lead plant projects resulting in more effective execution of sanitation and monitoring processes as well as cost savings initiatives.

What you need to succeed:


* Bachelor’s degree in food science and/or dairy science.


* 2+ years’ experience in sanitation, plant production, quality, and or maintenance leadership.


* Basic Microbiology, excellent written and oral communication skills, technical knowledge of COP and CIP, cleaning and sanitizing chemicals, sanitary design of food processing equipment, auditing experience, computer and process excellence tools. 


* Desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities.
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