Senior Sanitation Supervisor

Empowers team members: Will empower team members through leadership and supervision, training, and feedback opportunities, to meet and exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety. Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments.

Ensures compliance of company policies and procedures: Safety regulations, GMPs, SOPs, SSOPs, HACCP and SQF.

Coordinates and guides team members: Will provide training on a variety of situations including startups, shutdowns, preoperational inspections, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.

Sr. Sanitation Supervisor - Provides back-up support: Fills in for the sanitation manager during absences and for sanitation supervisors as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Sr. Sanitation Supervisor: Demonstrated six years supervisory or leadership skills in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team OR a bachelors degree and three years of supervisory or leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team.
• Sanitation Supervisor: Demonstrated three years supervisory or leadership skills in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team OR a bachelors degree with a prior Food Science (or closely related) internship.
• Demonstrated expertise and competence in sanitation/production processes; ability to supervise multiple departments/processes at once.
• Working knowledge of industrial sanitation chemicals usage and applications.
• Working knowledge of USDA regulations, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), sanitation processes/procedures and HACCP.
• Demonstrated mechanical and spatial aptitude, including the ability to disassemble and reassemble equipment and the ability to formulate and understand complex mathematical equations.
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations.