Sanitation Supervisor- Nights

What You Will Do

Supervise and maintain cleanliness and health standards at our food production facilities. As a sanitation supervisor you will develop and implement the company’s sanitation policies, oversee all sanitation operators, perform regular inspections, and maintain budgets and inventory for the sanitation staff.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Supervise over plant sanitation and front sanitation staff by actively supervising production floor during shift time
• Ensure proper procedures are in place and being followed for employee safety, food safety, and plant cleanliness
• Work with plant management and other supervisory staff to maximize plant cleanliness and efficiency of line turn around
• Provide supervision of assigned employees through scheduling and daily activities, ensuring effective selection, retention, feedback, disciplinary action and performance management
• Support the development, implementation, review and maintenance of the master sanitation program, environmental cleaning program, and charm program
• Implement and maintain SSOP’s ensuring compliance with Company standards as stated in the QA & SQF Manual, company directives, and company safety
• Validate SSOPs and sanitation programs annually or when changes occur to fit SQF compliance
• Periodically audit sanitation processes to ensure compliance with SSOPs, safety, GMP’s, and Quality
• Collaborate with QA staff to troubleshoot and analyze sanitation-related issues, concerns, or GMP audit findings
• Recommend measures to continuously improve sanitation methods, equipment performance, and quality of products produced and distributed by the plant
• Manage relationships with outside vendors such as the plant chemical supplier
• Coordinate training to the sanitation team members and other company employees regarding sanitation standards, GMP’s, SSOP’s, Safety, Food Safety, SQF, and team objectives
• Manage inventory and order of all cleaning and sanitation chemicals, tools, and PPE.
• Maintain up to date records on Programs, inventory, and titrations
• Other duties as assigned

What You Will Bring

• High School Diploma/GED; College degree preferred
• 3 years minimum experience working in Manufacturing/Sanitation, preferably in food or pet food
• Sound knowledge of safety, food safety and sanitation program requirements for the food industry
• Familiar with food manufacturing, sanitation, and/or microbiology
• Ability to adapt to changing organizational and operational needs; ability to lead others through change
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and computer-based applications
• Basic knowledge of food processing including sanitation
• Project Management skills (must be capable of handling multiple projects)
• Basic knowledge of FDA/SQF regulations
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Sound ethics
• Team management skills
• Able to work in production areas under hot, humid and/or refrigerated conditions
• Able to work varied days/shifts to support business needs. Typically a nights 12 hour shift
• Lift and perform physical labor during plant tests or product start-ups
• Work extended hours to complete tasks/special projects
• Occasional travel

What We Offer

At Freshpet, we offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package, including medical, dental and vision insurance, basic and optional life insurance, short- and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts, and a 401(k) plan with company match, paid parental leave, pet insurance, tuition assistance, a generous PTO plan and so much more!

Our Commitment to a Diverse Workforce:

At Freshpet, we embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, sex, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Freshpet aims to foster, cultivate, and preserve a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our employees are our most valuable assets. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well. Freshpet is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Disclaimers

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Freshpet is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Freshpet via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Freshpet. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Freshpet as a result of the referral or through other means.