Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Strictly follows and enforces food safety and quality policies, Good Manufacturing Processes (GMPs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Coordinates with the department managers and Quality Assurance Manager to assure proper follow up on all customer and regulatory issues (complaints, audits, and requests for information).
• Provides leadership and guidance in directing efforts to improve, maintain and validate safety and sanitation practices and procedures.
• She/he examines all equipment to ensure that it works properly and meets all governmental standards. In instances of violations, develops a plan to correct the situation.
• Performs routine audits and sanitation inspection of equipment and recommend maintenance/repair needs for correction to comply with sanitation practices in accordance to state and federal sanitation regulations and company’s standards.
• Confers with management and production personnel on sanitation problems, and recommends changes in equipment, plant layout, lighting, ventilation, or work practices to improve sanitation standards.
• To ensure that the unit is audit ready always and provide support in all audits.
• Continuously verifies/validates sanitation effectiveness and propose better ways to clean/sanitize, maximizing results and minimizing cost.
• Develops training programs related to sanitation law and company best practices and delivers these initiatives to employees in one-on-one and group settings.
• Keeps detailed records of all sanitation related activities and issues, such as inspections and violations, also notating how and when each situation was resolved.
• Reports any potential contamination and suspicious activity to the Quality Assurance manager immediately.
• Administers and supervises porters and third-party cleaning company.
• The sanitation supervisor will work very closely with chemical supply vendors.
• Other duties as assigned.