Sanitation Team Lead 2nd Shift in Oakland, Mississippi at Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.

Under the direction of Sanitation Supervisor, perform in a lead role, to include leading a team of assigned employees to perform duties typical of sanitation.

• Responsible for following all following all food safety policies and safety procedures.
• Effectively lead shift to ensure plant cleanliness, productivity, quality, and safety standards are met.
• Plan and coordinate daily sanitation activities to ensure cleaning schedules are met.
• Ensuring that all equipment is properly cleaned, sanitized and inspected for cleanliness.
• Uses food safety work practices’ ensuring no product is contaminated as consequences of conducting duties of this position.
• Verify the completion of daily sanitation tasks by sanitation associates.
• Ensure pre-operation sanitation inspection runs smoothly
• Take full ownership of assigned area of responsibility
• Maintain active working knowledge of all sanitation and cleaning procedures.
• Ensure proper disassembling and reassembling of machines for cleaning purpose
• Other tasks as assigned.

Education:

• High school diploma or GED

Experience:

• 1 year experience in food, beverage or daily processing/manufacturing environment
• GMP trained

General Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Ethical - Ability to demonstrate, conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Friendly - Ability to exhibit a cheerful demeanor toward others.
• Patience - Ability to act calmly under stress and strain, and of not being hasty or impetuous.
• Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
• Responsible - Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.
• Team Builder - Ability to convince a group of people to work toward a goal skills.
• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Communication - Ability to communicate effectively with others oral and written