Sanitation & Quality Supervisor

Requisition Information

Requisition

Position Type: (US)
Full Time

Workplace Arrangement:

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

Kerry is seeking a Sanitation / Quality Supervisor for its Vinton, Iowa facility.

• Oversee the Plant's sanitation and janitorial programs, processes, and systems to ensure that the plant performance meets and/or exceeds company-wide expectations.
• Responsible for supervising all activities in the plant with potential for weekend shifts. This includes the safety of all employees and contractors in the building. May be asked to assist maintenance and production with coordinating projects.
• Supervise a crew of 2‑4 sanitizers.
• Responsible for supervising, training, and directing the work of the sanitation staff. This also includes hiring, administering discipline and providing feedback to them.
• Coordinate with the heads of Production and Quality to assure proper follow up on all customer and regulatory issues (complaints, audits, and requests for information).
• Assure plant level preparedness for customer and regulatory inspections.
• Lead, teach and motivate all plant employees in pursuit of sanitation excellence and plant safety.
• Drive problem‑solving initiatives; utilize root cause analysis and preventative actions with respect to sanitation and food safety/quality related issues.
• Support and enforce cGMPs, food safety procedures and company policies.
• Support production management in troubleshooting plant sanitation deficiencies and in identifying root cause and eliminating sanitation issues.
• Responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and updating documents, forms, and logs in relation to cleaning/sanitation functions.
• Monitor and maintain inventory levels of sanitation supplies, including ordering and replenishing.
• Maintain and log on all sanitation on Master Cleaning Schedules.
• Utilizes powered cleaning equipment that may include lift truck, scissors lift, power washer, foam applicators, and various non‑mechanized equipment.
• Follows safety rules including but not limited to safe lifting, lock out/tag out wearing proper PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), following LSA Data Sheets, proper disassembly and reassembly of equipment.
• Participates in all necessary safety training, team development programs, and plant initiatives.
• Creates/Updates Standard Operating Procedures.
• Support the plant Food Safety & Quality System to produce safe quality food, acting as SQF Practitioner and PCQI back‑up.
• Perform and/or participate in internal audits while ensuring compliance to internal food safety and quality policies and applicable local regulations through the audits, observations, process reviews, and development of corrective actions with site management.
• Support facility during inspections, customer and 3rd party audits, communications, commercialisations, and other interactions with regulatory agencies or customers.
• Provide technical assistance to quality assurance and operations.
• In conjunction with the Quality Manager, update and support food safety programs and food safety systems: HACCP/Preventive Controls, sanitation, line clean verifications and validations, pest control, and environmental monitoring program. Maintain the quality systems for the plant. Ensure work instructions, SSOPs, procedures and other pertinent documentation is up to date. Recommend revisions to plant work instructions as needed.
• Completion of required reporting on key performance indicators.
• Participate in quality complaint investigations.
• Verify corrective action completion and continued conformance.
• Other duties relating to facility operation, food safety/quality and sanitation, as assigned.