Sanitation Director

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a strategic sanitation program, policies, plans and processes to ensure sanitary performance meets Mondelez standards.
• Support Manufacturing facilities, process engineering, environmental and Maintenance personnel in addressing sanitary design issues through a risk‑based prioritization of capital projects related to sanitation and Food Safety, addressing main risks including allergens, microbiology and chemicals.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to Operations Quality and Manufacturing facilities in areas of sanitation.
• Support R+I and Quality in the innovation / renovation process by defining the correct validation and sanitation protocols.
• Conduct periodic sanitation audits against the consistent application and execution of procedures and related sanitation practices.
• Implement Danone corporate standards & specifications for sanitation and cleaning.
• Develop and support plant sanitation operating procedures.
• Interface with learning and development and plants to deliver sanitation program training for example Neptune, creating resource materials and SSOPs.
• Propose and implement improvements to increase the effectiveness of equipment and to reduce quality and food‑safety risks.
• Participate in focus improvement teams for finished goods loss reduction and improving equipment and sanitation effectiveness.
• Leverage chemical vendor and other internal/external expertise to implement effective sanitation programs including but not limited to, design and testing of new improved sanitation methods, best‑practice sharing between plants, sanitation compliance & practices and identification of operational improvement opportunities.
• Participate in quality / food safety incident investigations and foster a continuous improvement culture as it pertains to effective sanitary systems in all facilities.
• Act as an expert in cleaning parameters and related quality & food‑safety risks for Manufacturing HACCP teams.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Food Technology knowledge
• Food Safety knowledge
• Microbiology and allergen knowledge
• Minimum of 5 years of food plant operational experience
• Quality tools including RCA/CAPA and continuous improvement
• Thorough knowledge and experience with diverse sanitizing applications