Supervisor, Sanitation - 1st shift

Position Summary

The Sanitation Supervisor reports to the Quality Assurance Manager and is based out of our Seabrook, NJ location. This individual supervises all sanitation operations, food safety, and plant quality procedures to ensure a safe, efficient, productive, and positive work environment. This person consistently directs, coaches, trains, and gives performance feedback to sanitation employees. All procedures and practices used are grounded in standards, regulations, and laws addressing occupational safety (OSHA) and food safety and food quality (FDA) in addition to environmental safety (EPA) in accordance with Safe Quality Food (SQF) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

The Sanitation Supervisor reports to the Quality Assurance Manager and is based out of our Seabrook, NJ location. This individual supervises all sanitation operations, food safety, and plant quality procedures to ensure a safe, efficient, productive, and positive work environment. This person consistently directs, coaches, trains, and gives performance feedback to sanitation employees. All procedures and practices used are grounded in standards, regulations, and laws addressing occupational safety (OSHA) and food safety and food quality (FDA) in addition to environmental safety (EPA) in accordance with Safe Quality Food (SQF) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Develop and monitor a cleaning routine plan for daily, weekly, and monthly sanitation (Master Cleaning Schedule) in all parts of the plant
• Develop and implement all sanitation-related procedures and audits to make sure procedures are followed
• Manages schedules to support CIPs
• Ensures compliance with cleaning routine plan by utilizing routine observation, monthly walk-through inspections, reporting and distribution, and tracking of open and closed sanitation work orders
• Provide shift-focused supervision to the sanitation employees
• Communicate routinely with employees to ensure that they all understand the day's sanitation schedule, key issues, and challenges
• Manage all cleaning and basic repair activities in accordance with the standards, regulations, and laws governing food safety, food quality, and environmental safety regulations and monitor and accurately document all work done
• Ensures that all standards for food safety and food quality are met and exceeded
• Keeps work environment clean, safe and positive
• Identifies problems or bottlenecks in sanitation processes and resolves issues
• Assure the implementation of all identified food quality and food safety standards, laws, good manufacturing practices, training and continuous improvement
• Identify and document the skills, performance opportunities, learning needs, time, and attendance of each sanitation associate and teach routinely
• Assure all sanitation associates are consistently trained in all required standards and expectations, including temporary employees
• Manage chemical Inventory and employee chemical training
• Manage facility Pest Control Program
• Manage Facility Color Coding Program
• Manage Facility Glass and Brittle Plastic Procedures
• Complete Quarterly trend reports for Programs managed by Sanitation Supervisor
• Participate in external and internal Audits
• Conduct PIT training
• Conduct LOTO training for Sanitation Employees
• Manage and Organize Sanitation Supplies and work areas
• Adhere to and promote a culture of food safety and quality
• This role will be required to taste test products as needed, up to a couple of ounces per test.
• Other duties as assigned

• Manage employees
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe, secure, and legal work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Communicates job expectations; planning, monitoring, and assessing job results; coaching, and counseling employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, procedures, and productivity standards.
• Establishes strategic goals; identifies and evaluates trends; chooses a course of action; defines objectives; evaluates outcomes.

• Associate's degree (A.A.) from a two-year college in food science or related discipline.
• HAACP highly…