Shoreline Fruit is the largest tart cherry producer in North America operating nearly 7000 acres of cherry orchards right here in Michigan, growing and processing over 40 million pounds of cherries each year. We are a grower owned company built from two families' stories filled with pride and hard work that continues to grow in its reach of customers here and around the globe. Working at our production facility, you will be joining the team that processes the finest cherry products and other dried fruits available anywhere in the world. We are dedicated to the continuous improvement of our products, processes, people, and in becoming a better employer every day.
As a Sanitation Manager, you will lead the development, compliance, training, problem solving, best practices and general technical support in the area of Sanitation across all Shoreline Fruit plants. Work with Operations, Maintenance, Quality and Food Safety, chemical suppliers, and contractors to ensure equipment, processes and the plant environment are suitably designed, maintained, effectively cleaned for food safety and quality and train and mentor sanitation staff across the organization. Responsible for enforcing the policies and procedures surrounding food safety and hygiene. In instances of violations, he/she develops a plan to correct the situation.
Day Shift: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. (flexibility as needed)
Salary and Benefits: We offer good pay, great benefits, and cool incentives

• Starting pay: $60,000
• Health, Dental, Vision insurances and Flexible Spending Accounts available on the first day of employment
• 401K w/company matching available after 6 months
• Two weeks paid-time-off accrual starts at hire date and can be used after 60 days of employment
• Mileage reimbursement

Primary Responsibilities/ Essential Functions:

• • Provide training for individual Sanitation Programs to plant sanitarians and other partners. Mentor and coach sanitation leads and technicians at both manufacturing locations.
  • Work closely with Maintenance, and equipment vendors to ensure that new or modified equipment meets sanitary design and regulatory requirements prior to purchase and installation.
  • Review and analyze data from sanitation audits, pathogen environmental monitoring program, pre-op inspections, site audits, food safety audits (internal, third party, customers, and Regulatory), customer complaints, and other relevant data sources. Utilize that data to respond to trends and take corrective and preventive actions.
  • Direct sanitation efforts to ensure that cleaning requirements for all food contact equipment, packaging and process areas meet or exceed standards.
  • Develop and implementation of a Master Cleaning Schedule - Computer based. Manage all master sanitation cleaning schedules in the packaging, processing, and warehouse areas to meet or exceed standards. Verifies and validates the Master Cleaning Schedule. Provides any necessary training of the Master Cleaning Schedule. This includes the development and implementation of Master Cleaning Schedules at Shoreline Fruit Warehouse location. Develop sanitation documents and assist in the development of plant SSOPs, and sanitation audit documentation.
  • Proactively utilize process Key Performance Indicators (KPI) metrics to prevent problems
  • that could affect product quality and food safety. Investigate sanitation issues, which are resulting in product contamination, reduced shelf-life, or customer complaints or rejection of products. Assist in the identification of root cause and corrective and preventive actions.
  • Work closely with quality management and corporate accounting to have controls in place to monitor the performance of sanitation chemical vendors and pest management contractors to maximize technical expertise, provide full technical support and to drive results while being cost effective.
  • Conduct internal sanitation audits using Safety Culture and work with appropriate partners to address and resolve deficiencies.
  • Provide roof-leak escalation, microbiology indicators, and other relevant food safety programs support.
  • Improve product costs and operational efficiencies through planned annual projects and initiatives while protecting people, product quality and food safety. Partner with Sustainability for relevant water and chemical usage reduction projects.
  • Together with the leadership team, ensure compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer and regulatory requirements.
  • Interprets and communicates sanitation related customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.
  • Establish and Audits CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.
  • Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.
  • Partner with Safety group to ensure alignment between human and food safety for all chemical usage and sanitary applications.
  • Provides ongoing industry engagement through participation in training, best practice documents, and relevant industry groups.

Competences and Skills required:

• Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Ability to coach, develop and engage members of a team to work together to accomplish tasks.
• The ability to speak read and use written communication clearly so others can understand you.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written required. Ability to train and speak effectively before groups of employees of the organization.

Education, Experience:

• Bachelors' in Food Science preferred
• 1-3 years' experience in a management level position in a manufacturing environment. Food plant sanitation preferred.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written required. Ability to train and speak effectively before groups of employees of the organization.
• Ability to effectively plan, organize and prioritize work.
• Must be proficient with the approved chemical list established.
• Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, develops alternative solutions.
• Willingness to make decisions, includes appropriate people in decision making process, supports and explains reasons for decisions.
• guidelines, and reports potentially unsafe conditions
• Capable of trending data, organizing information and writing reports.
• Basic use of Microsoft Office related products including but not limited to Word, Excel and Power Point.

We are located at 10106 U.S. 31 in Williamsburg & 8310 W. Stormer Rd Empire, MI 49630
Shoreline Fruit is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where we all feel we belong .