Sanitation Expert

The role of the Food Safety Specialist is to drive and implement holistic plant sanitation programs, policies, and procedures for manufacturing operations, warehouse, and grounds. This includes ensuring compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations, as well as food safety policies and procedures.

• This position will work under the direct supervision of the Food Safety Manager.
• Key responsibilities include driving and implementing plant sanitation programs, collaborating with facility supervisors and site cleaning staff, and evaluating facility sanitary conditions.

1. Driving and implementing holistic plant sanitation programs, policies, and procedures for plant, warehouse, and grounds; assuring compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and all food safety policies and procedures.
2. Acting as sanitation support in the process of assessing and mitigating safety risk associated with construction and major maintenance.
3. Collaborate/Coordinate with Facility Supervisor, Operations Leadership, Operations Associates and Site Cleaning staff to achieve desired Environmental Monitoring performance and Pest Control performance.
4. Evaluating facility sanitary conditions, assessing risk based on food safety and public health principles, prioritizing corrective actions, and verifying sanitation activities and validation testing.
5. Evaluating monthly environmental samples for monitoring of pathogenic organisms in plant, trending the results and developing corrective actions.
6. Conformance to master cleaning schedule and applicable cGMP guidelines, best practices and requirements.
7. Assist in developing and implementing all sanitation related training for sanitation and plant employees as needed.
8. Ensures all safety requirements related to sanitation are met including proper chemical storage, MSDS, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and procedures.
9. Maintaining and writing detailed cleanup procedures and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures for all plant equipment, driving towards reduced water and air usage.

The ideal candidate will have a BSc in plant quality/food safety/sanitation with a minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role with demonstrated leadership skills (direct or cross functional leadership).

Certification as a Sanitarian and Pesticide Application is an advantage for this role.

• Understanding and application of microbiological principles with in-depth food borne pathogen knowledge.
• Knowledge of HACCP, Sanitation principles and Food Safety Preventive Controls (FSPC).
• Understanding of the appropriate wet cleaning and dry cleaning methodology.
• Experience in successfully addressing environmental sanitation challenges in areas such as drains, floors, walls, roofs, and equipment.
• Proven leadership capabilities.
• Project planning & execution experiences.
• Process control knowledge.
• Proven plant financial understanding.
• Experience with working on Continuous Improvement Projects.
• Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.