What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sanitation Manager position at STELLA & CHEWY'S LLC?
Description
The Sanitation Manager is responsible for planning, organizing and controlling sanitation to ensure timely and adequate cleaning according to specifications within budget and to standard.
Essential Functions include the following.
- Ensure proper Good Manufacturing Practices and safety procedures are followed by all sanitation employees
- Plan, implement and control sanitation schedule for the job, make adjustments as needed to both material and human resources to complete the job and meet targets.
- Make decisions about appropriate equipment use, maintenance, modification and procurement.
- Establish and implement standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for sanitation operations and ensure that they are adhered to.
- Set quality standards, implement and enforce quality control and tracking programs to meet quality objectives.
- Build critical KPI’s and manage the team to drive continuous improvement.
- Analyze KPI’s to detect and correct problems.
- Determine and implement improvements to the sanitation process.
- Prepare and maintain sanitation reports.
- Monitor and review the performance of staff and coach for improvement.
- Estimate sanitation costs, establish and manage budgets, and implement cost control programs as necessary.
- Ensure efficient collaboration and co-ordination between relevant departments including procurement, distribution and management
- Work with Quality Assurance to insure Pre-Operational Inspection issues are addressed
- Develop/validate cleaning procedures
- Set up and implement Master Sanitation Schedule
- Order and monitor cleaning supplies to ensure quality, safety and cost effectiveness
- Monitor and record chemical usage
- Ensure compliance with industry standards
- Supervise the sanitation staff to ensure thorough understanding and application of sanitation and safety requirements including but not limited to training and development
- Communicating with other departments to prioritize the sanitation schedule.
- Complete employee reviews for sanitation employees
Requirements
- Associate degree
- 5 years relevant work experience, ideally in the food or pet food industry or a combination of education and experience.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred.
- Excellent knowledge of sanitary design, sanitation and pest management in food processing.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Excellent understanding of food safety.
- Excellent understanding of microbiological organisms and their impact on process, design, sanitary design and sanitation.
- Previous experience with government regulatory requirements in the processing of food.
- Strong planning and organizational skills required
- Strong continuous improvement mindset
- Management skills: demonstrate leadership by influencing others in implementing sanitation programs through effective communication, individual technical knowledge, and training
- The person in this position is committed to assuring that Stella & Chewy’s, LLC produces safe, legal and wholesome pet food products that meet our consumer’s expectations.
