Sanitation Supervisor at Rise Baking Company, LLC – York, Pennsylvania

Job Purpose

Lead the Sanitation team to achieve full plant compliance with sanitation/cleaning standards, food safety, and personnel safety, maintaining all federal, state, and customer requirements. Provide sanitation support to the plant to help ensure production schedules are met and manufacturing goals are achieved.

Essential Functions

• Manage Sanitation team across all shifts including training, development, scheduling, and performance management
• Develop, implement, and maintain master sanitation schedules, ensuring master sanitation schedules and daily housekeeping requirements are executed effectively, documented, and filed accordingly
• Ensure proper equipment sanitation and efficient startups through an understanding of the manufacturing process and equipment/parts design
• Ensure all areas of the plant are properly sanitized and in good repair
• Work with Quality Assurance and Production to validate/verify allergen cleaning effectiveness
• Work with facility leadership to ensure readiness for upcoming projects; demonstrate good time management in planning work schedules to ensure deadlines are met
• Order and maintain inventory for Sanitation department materials; manage inventory to keep within budget
• Manage chemical control within the Sanitation department, working with chemical provider
• Ensure proper training is completed and documented for the Sanitation team
• Continually train, monitor and enforce compliance to safety program including Lock Out Tag Out, chemical safety, chemical SDS, etc.; monitor department adherence to required PPEs
• Create, update, and audit sanitation program and all SSOPs to ensure compliance with FDA and GFSI requirements
• Assist with updating quality systems relating to sanitation, environmental safety, food safety, and quality controls
• Actively participate in food safety and plant audits, company audits, and 2nd and 3rd party audits
• Provide pest control support, working with pest control provider to ensure corrective actions are closed out in a timely manner
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement, foster a sense of team responsibility for achieving goals and supporting plant metrics, and lead the department by example
• Support food safety program, quality standards, and legality of products manufactured in the facility
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Qualifications (Education, Experience, Competencies)

• Bachelor of Science degree preferred and/or 2 years of experience in implementing sanitation programs
• 2+ years of supervisory experience preferred
• GFSI, FDA, and State Department of Agriculture experience preferred
• HACCP and PCQI certification preferred
• Experience developing and managing to a budget preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Office
• Strong leadership, team-building, and coaching skills with an intense desire to drive positive change, develop interdepartmental relationships, and deliver results
• Strong decision-making skills with the ability to think quickly and handle frequent change
• Ability to establish rapport quickly, communicating with ease, skill, and conviction
• Continuous improvement mind-set with the ability to lead and support multiple projects