Sanitation Supervisor

POSITION SUMMARY

This position ensures the overall warehouse has been cleaned and sanitized per the Sanitation Master Schedule.  This will be accomplished by ensuring established procedures are followed, executed, and verified for completeness.  This position will direct and oversee the sanitation employees in their daily tasks and address any areas of concern.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate the job tasks prior to shift start for each sanitation area of responsibility
• Assign these job tasks to each sanitation employee utilizing the Sanitation Job Task Sheet
• Conduct a pre-shift meeting with all sanitation employees on a daily basis
• Inspect, evaluate and critique as needed all assigned job tasks throughout the shift
• Inspect the facility for areas of missed opportunities or areas of improvement with sanitation and make adjustments as needed to the Sanitation Job Task Sheet.
• Meet with sanitation employees at the end of last break for any added assignments, reviews or progress updates.
• Ensure the Sanitation Job Task Sheet is being filled out completely with all completed job tasks, slots deep cleaned, additional assigned tasks with their name and signature on the form.
• Monitor the sweeper and scrubber employees to ensure full coverage of the overall warehouse on each shift and ensure the progress continues from where the previous shift left off.
• Monitor the plastics employee to ensure that all plastic is collected, receptacles replaced and baled properly.
• Monitor the aisles as needed for signs of food safety violations, pest control concerns, and general damage control related to selectors and fork operators.
• Provide feedback to management on areas of opportunity for keeping the warehouse in an ongoing regulatory inspection state.
• Monitor all sanitation employee activities to ensure they are always done safely while properly following all company policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. A reasonable accommodation may be considered according to the ADA if it would not impose an undue hardship on the operations of the business without significant difficulty or expense.  The reasonable accommodation would permit a qualified employee the ability to perform all essential functions of the job within the safety and contractual guidelines of the position.
 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:  One to two years supervisory experience and/or experience working in a grocery warehouse environment; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:  Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY:  Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:  Warehouse mobile equipment 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and taste or smell.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the job duties, the employee is occasionally or frequently exposed to extreme cold in the coolers or freezer and works with and around a variety of warehouse mobile equipment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud.  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.

This position's basic purpose is to use all available resources to assist the Warehouse to continuous growth and financial success.