What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sanitation Supervisor position at Birchwood Foods?
About the Company - Birchwood Foods is an established family-owned ground beef manufacturing company with over 80 years of industry experience. Birchwood Foods delivers ground beef solutions into foodservice and retail market channels. It operates four meat-processing facilities located in the United States.
About the Role - The Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for the supervision of sanitation crew as they disassemble equipment; clean and sanitize equipment; and reassemble equipment that utilized during daily first and second shift meat production.
Responsibilities
- Assure proper staffing requirements are being met for departmental shifts
- Demonstrate and enforce all safety practices/policies
- Maintain the scheduling and facilitate the safety toolbox chats with staff twice a month
- Conduct coaching sessions with staff as needed
- Prepare and present the department’s daily production report
- Assure efficiencies are met and/or exceeded
- Perform Supervisor’s Accident Investigation as needed
- Manage employee time records
- Responsible for supervisor’s upkeep of new hire training documentation and development
- Assure that all food quality standards are followed
- Verify HACCP and other documents as required by HACCP plan
- Assure that department is running as smooth as possible at all times and eliminate downtime
- Monitor GMP’s and enforcing policies of the company
Qualifications
- 2 years sanitation supervisory experience with food industry background and familiarity with USDA and OSHA is required
- College Degree in Meat/Agriculture Science and/or equivalent experience in the food/meat/sanitation industry preferred
- Experience with Meat Manufacturing Sanitation Processes, CIP Systems, Chemicals, Industrial Equipment Cleaning and Sanitizing preferred
- Strong leadership qualities, responsible, dependable, and organized
- Ability to work in a refrigerated environment