Sanitation Lead - 2nd Shift

Menasha Corporation•Alsip, IL
•Onsite

About The Position

The Sanitation Lead directs daily cleaning operations, manages sanitation crews, and ensures compliance with food safety laws to prevent contamination. This role is responsible for enforcing and ensuring compliance with established food safety, sanitation, and hygiene policies and procedures. The Sanitation Lead will inspect manufacturing equipment to ensure compliance with established sanitation, hygiene, and food safety standards, and manage and oversee cleaning and sanitation operations in the facility to ensure proper execution of sanitation activities. They will maintain the master sanitation schedule, train sanitation workers on an ongoing basis, and document all training processes and procedures properly. Additionally, the Sanitation Lead will monitor the mixing and use of chemicals to prevent misuse and hazards, coordinate and execute cleaning with the sanitation and maintenance teams, and keep detailed records of all sanitation-related activities and issues. Comprehensive evaluations of sanitation processes and practices will be conducted to identify opportunities for improvement, with recommendations provided to the Quality Supervisor. The role also involves maintaining audit readiness to ensure sanitation practices meet established SQF and customer requirements.

Requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent
  • Minimum of 2 years of related experience or training in warehouse or production sanitation
  • Safety sensitive position - ability to work in a constant state of alertness and a safe manner
  • Ability to work overtime and weekends as required based upon the needs of the business
  • Ability to work on a rotating shift as needed
  • Ability to effectively work in teams
  • Ability to work in a production-based environment with moving equipment and people
  • Ability to interact and communicate effectively with a wide variety of roles
  • Ability to lead / supervise groups of associates
  • Understand quality standards, methods and reporting as required
  • Good communicator, team player and multi-tasking skills
  • Plan in advance for upcoming tasks in your area
  • Interpret instructions both oral and written
  • Produce at a high level through your staff
  • Work with plant management for required results
  • Process information and merchandise through computer system
  • Prolonged standing, walking, bending climbing ladders, and lifting up to 30-50 pounds
  • Conduct their work in a manner that complies with all legal standards and meets customer expectations.
  • Maintain quality standards by establishing, enforcing and adhering to organizational standards set forth in published policies, procedures and processes.

Responsibilities

  • Enforce and ensure compliance with established food safety, sanitation, and hygiene policies and procedures.
  • Inspect manufacturing equipment to ensure compliance with established sanitation, hygiene, and food safety standards.
  • Manage and oversee cleaning and sanitation operations in the facility to ensure proper execution of sanitation activities.
  • Maintain the master sanitation schedule.
  • Train sanitation workers on an ongoing basis and document all training processes and procedures properly.
  • Monitor the mixing and use of chemicals to prevent misuse and hazards to personnel and property.
  • Coordinate and execute cleaning or area cleaning with team of sanitation and maintenance.
  • Keeps detailed records of all sanitation-related activities and issues, such as inspections and violations, also noting how and when each situation was resolved.
  • Conduct comprehensive evaluations of sanitation processes and practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and provide recommendations to the Quality Supervisor regarding necessary enhancements or modifications.
  • Maintain audit readiness and ensure sanitation practices meet established SQF and customer requirements to support successful audit outcomes and passing scores.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • basic term life, AD&D, Short- and Long-term disability
  • EAP
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • PTO
  • paid holidays
  • annual incentive plan
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