
Sanitation Manager
- Florida Columbia, SC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and implement strategic sanitation programs and procedures ensuring the highest levels of sanitary performance that meets or exceed required company, regulatory and customer standards.
- Manage In House and/or 3rd party sanitation employees to ensure safe work practices including PPEs, chemical handling, times/temperatures, lock out tag out procedures
- Partner with the Director of Food Safety and Product Quality to develop methods and techniques to verify and validate the effectiveness of all sanitation initiatives
- Ensure compliance with daily cleaning requirements and Master Sanitation Schedule
- Develop and implement equipment and infrastructure sanitary design expectations and procedures working in conjunction with a cross-functional team of internal and external partners
- Investigate and follow up on all sanitation issues which could result in contamination, reduction of shelf-life, customer complaints and rejection of products
- Conduct inspections, and verification of all equipment to be cleaned and sanitized (i.e. pumps, valves, systems)
- Develop KPI's to measure sanitation goals and effectiveness
- Evaluate, recommend and implement measures to improve facility sanitation procedures and methods, production equipment cleanup practices
- Work closely with the chemical suppliers to ensure proper chemicals are in use to achieve sanitation results while maintaining the budget goals
- Ensure resources are in place to adequately support quality and business needs
- Sanitation experience within the food manufacturing industry
- Working with FDA and USDA experience required Ability to prioritize duties in a changing environment to satisfy business objectives
- Ability to communicate well in both written and verbal form, in both small team and large public venues
- Effective presentation, and public speaking skills
- Experience in Environmental Monitoring and pathogen testing protocols
- Strong computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science or related field preferred
- 5+ years of managerial experience with sanitation programs required
- 4+ years' experience in quality assurance or process control with 2 to 4 years as a manager
- Agriculture or specific produce experience is preferred
- HACCP Certified
- Experience with Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)- PCQI Certification
- Certification in Quality disciplines (i.e. ASQ CQE, CQA, etc.) preferred