What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sanitation Supervisor position at Kerry?
Requisition ID 40664
Position Type (US)Full Time
Career Function Quality
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Posting Type DNI
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About the role
SUMMARY: Responsibility for plant and production equipment cleaning, chemical handling, pest control, buildings and grounds inspections and upkeep, raw material inspection, as well as training, compliance, and record keeping. Ensure upkeep and following of the Master Sanitation schedule.
Key responsibilities
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, Other duties may be assigned.
- Reviewing existing sanitation programs, recommend, develop, and implement new or improved programs.
- Inspect plants and warehouses to ensure compliance with internal sanitation and safety procedures and programs and to comply with state and federal laws.
- Oversees all sanitation training programs to ensure they are understood and completed by sanitation personnel and production operators in a safe and efficient manner.
- Assure compliance to all federally mandated and local regulations by the production facility to assure food safety for consumers. Maintains master cleaning schedule for plant meeting GMP and Kerry guidelines.
- Maintains and writes detailed clean up procedures and SSOPs for all plant equipment.
- Audit clean up (monthly and product changeovers). Requires identification of equipment to be cleaned, phasing of cleaning, and number of individuals required to clean, etc.).
- Assists in Monthly Plant inspection process Routinely interfaces with vendors for cost savings, ordering departmental supplies, and arranging special services in plant (pesticide applications, contracted cleaning and painting, carpet cleaning, new dust collection filter technologies, etc).
- Responsible for sanitation of plant, warehouse, and plant ground.
- Coordinate hygienic zoning, safety shoes, uniforms, and pest control program for plant.
- Involved in Customer Audits and follow-up on corrective actions.
Qualifications and skills
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science related area (preferred)
- Supervisory experience in a food-manufacturing environment
- Sanitation or Quality related experience in a food-manufacturing environment
- Knowledge and experience with pest control
- Experience with CIP/chemical recirculation cleaning.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) and product labeling for chemicals used in performing cleaning tasks. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Ability to develop and write effective cleaning procedures for food manufacturing equipment.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: None required.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, or use a sense of smell. The employee uses ladders. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus. The employee must know plant color codes for disposing of trash and recyclable.
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 duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; heights; and fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, and vibration. Noise level in the work environment is adjusted with hearing protection.
Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
