Senior Sanitation Lead
About The Position
The Senior Lead Sanitation Tech is responsible for leading all sanitation activities within the facility to ensure compliance with food safety, quality, and regulatory standards. This position provides leadership and direction to the sanitation team, oversees daily sanitation operations, develops employees, and partners with plant leadership to maintain a clean, safe, and audit-ready production environment. The Senior Lead Sanitation Tech is responsible for staffing, training, performance management, sanitation program execution, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with all food safety and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements. This position reports directly to the FSQA Manager.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years sanitation experience in the food industry.
- Minimum 3 years in a lead or supervisory role in manufacturing.
- Knowledge of Safety, HACCP, GMPs, OSHA, BRC and FSSC requirements.
- General knowledge of food manufacturing equipment.
- Experience using Microsoft Office and computers.
- Knowledge of chemical handling and PPE.
- Mechanically inclined.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Perform dry cleaning and general cleaning and sanitation responsibilities as assigned throughout the plant.
- Inspect, promote and maintain adherence to food safety cleanliness in the handling of product, ingredients and finished goods using proper work procedures and compliance with Food Safety Standards as defined by the FDA, BRC, Preventive Controls, FSSC 22000, HACCP and prerequisite programs under the direction of the FSQA Manager.
- Review machinery swab results with the Quality Assurance Manager and Lab Supervisor to verify sanitation effectiveness.
- Understand and use chemical or non-chemical pest control systems.
- Ensure chemical containers are properly marked, tagged, stored and inventoried.
- Maintain neat and accurate sanitation records.
- Actively participate as a member of the Food Safety Committee.
- Perform internal audits and support corrective actions.
- Provide daily leadership, direction, coaching, and accountability for Sanitation Technicians and Lead Sanitation Technicians.
- Create, update, maintain and implement SSOPs and the Master Sanitation Schedule.
- Responsible for post-clean assessments and sanitation verification.
- Partner with plant leadership to verify and validate sanitation effectiveness and continually improve sanitary conditions.
- Ensure sanitation employees are properly trained and competent.
- Partner with Human Resources to recruit, interview, onboard and maintain appropriate staffing levels utilizing direct hires and temporary staffing agencies.
- Conduct performance evaluations, provide coaching and development, recognize performance, and administer corrective action in accordance with company policy.
- Perform additional projects assigned by the FSQA Manager.
- Follow and hold others accountable for all GMPs and company policies.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Complete safety documentation and report deviations.
- Participate in mandatory safety training.
- Report all safety issues, near misses and injuries.
- Complete quality and food safety documentation.
- Participate in required food safety training.
- Preserve the integrity of the BRC/FSSC food safety system.
- Report food safety and quality concerns immediately.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
