Sanitation Supervisor, 3rd Shift

Maker's Pride Talent Acquisition Team•Kentwood, MI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

A Sanitation Supervisor enforces the policies and procedures surrounding food safety and hygiene. This role involves examining manufacturing equipment to ensure proper function and compliance with governmental standards, developing corrective action plans for violations, and consulting with management on compliance issues and process improvements. The position requires maintaining relationships with chemical and pest control vendors, developing and delivering training programs on sanitation practices and company best practices, and keeping detailed records of all sanitation-related activities. The Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for ensuring all Safety, Quality, Continuous Improvement, and Cost expectations are met, driving sustainable improvements across the shift through hands-on leadership and collaboration with plant leadership and employees.

Requirements

Make sound business decisions.
1 or more years of sanitation, food safety or quality supervisory experience in a food or beverage manufacturing environment.
3 or more years of sanitation experience in a food/beverage manufacturing environment.
Results oriented, possess strong interpersonal skills, be a team player as well as an independent worker and have strong and effective verbal and written communication skills.
Possess leadership skills as well as an appropriate amount of technical skills in a high-speed manufacturing environment.
A knowledge of LEAN Manufacturing techniques and related CI tools are required: I.e., Root Cause Analysis, Agile, Kaizen Events, Blitz, Value Stream Mapping, OEE, First Hour Full Power, Labor Analysis, 5S, 7 Forms of Waste, Pit Stop Changeovers, etc.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and have some experience and/or the ability to learn associated corporate enterprise software systems to analyze and track data as well as ensuring the sanitation organization understands key operational information.
Understanding of Master Sanitation Schedules.
GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) knowledge is required.

Nice To Haves

Large scale manufacturing experience a plus.
Bilingual Spanish/English is helpful.
Demonstrated experience training teams is preferred.
Experience with SQF or BRC audit prep and ATP swab experience is a bonus.

Responsibilities

Overseeing the sanitation process
Ensuring that health and safety guidelines are followed, and that continual improvement is made towards an injury-free operation.
Ensure key performance indicators in Sanitation areas are met or exceeded.
Ensuring that the Sanitation process is cost effective, reliable, and meets all associated targets.
Develop and track improvement in the use and efficiency of Sanitation labor resources.
Coordinate set up and implement standard operating procedure for key Sanitation operations.
Ensure that Sanitation does not detract from products are produced on time and are of good quality.
Manage the adherence to prescribed procedures to ensure that quality (relating to sanitation) meets or exceeds planned goals. Work with Quality Manager/Supervisor to ensure that adequate processes are capable and improving.
Ensure that human resources required to accomplish sanitation tasks are available; ensure that material resources (chemicals, tools, etc.) needed are available.
Work with the Maintenance, Quality and Production to ensure sanitation related equipment PM’s (e.g. PEC’s) are completed timely as well as develop a good working relationship between production and maintenance personnel.
Ensure complete compliance to GMP’s and 5S processes.
Work with the Sanitation Manager to estimate labor and operational costs for on-going operation and for new projects.
Track competencies of subordinates and provide leadership and development as required to achieve the objectives.
Monitor the Sanitation processes and adjusting schedules as needed.
Implement and drive continuous improvement activities through implementation of change management process and best practices.
Liaise among different departments, e.g. other departments, corporate resources, other plants, suppliers, etc.
Optimize resource utilization by implementation of an effective Sanitation organization.
Ensure coaching and development of team and other key resources to meet business’s objectives.
Supervise and motivate teams of workers.
Review the performance of subordinates.
Assists with the management of the Master Sanitation Schedule and Action Item Logs.
Responsible for the titration testing of all chemicals needing titrated.
Other duties as identified or assigned by Sanitation Manager.