Sanitation/Production Manager (3rd Shift)

The 3rd Shift Production / Sanitation Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the housekeeping and sanitation of food contact areas and manufacturing equipment to ensure compliance with required cleanliness standards. This role directs the plant's production activities on a 3rd shift, ensuring the achievement of quality, quantity, and timely production goals in a safe and efficient manner. The manager is accountable for maintaining quality and safety while meeting established objectives.

• Coordinate the shift’s production and material handling activities through the supervision of employees to ensure timely, cost-effective, and safe accomplishment of production objectives.
• Review and manage budgets for the production area.
• Control manpower and labor costs in production-related areas through effective scheduling and utilization of personnel.
• Maintain shift performance in scheduling, production, quality, and safety standards.
• Control and minimize overtime labor costs, maintenance/repair costs, downtime, and product re-work.
• Ensure timely and accurate production reporting.
• Collaborate with other department managers and supervisors to ensure proper material handling, maintenance, accounting, and inventory control activities and procedures.
• Maintain company standards for cleanliness, productivity, and maintenance in the production and material handling areas.
• Coordinate shift activities through planning and communication with employees to achieve sanitation objectives.
• Develop and manage plans and budgets for the sanitation area.
• Develop and implement a master sanitation schedule/program for all processing and packaging equipment and storage vessels in compliance with company and FDA standards.
• Monitor CIP (Clean-In-Place) of equipment to ensure proper operation by shift personnel.
• Oversee the storage and use of cleaning chemicals within the warehouse to prevent unauthorized access or use.
• Control and minimize overtime labor and maintenance costs.
• Monitor the usage of all cleaning/sanitizing chemicals and agents to ensure compliance with safety requirements.
• Maintain a close working relationship with QA and respond immediately to deviations from standards.
• Coordinate with department managers and shift supervisors to ensure a trouble-free shift start-up.
• Ensure compliance with quality, food safety, and HAACP support programs, as well as conformity to all company, customer, and government standards.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local laws and company policies.
• Provide training, direction, development, evaluation, coaching, and leadership to employees.
• Maintain good employee, corporate, and community relations and a working relationship with the labor union.

• 3-5 years of supervisory experience in a union manufacturing environment, preferably in the food-related industry.
• Associate's degree in business or equivalent experience/training in CIP systems and chemical usage. Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred.
• Working knowledge of sanitation equipment, methods, and chemicals.
• 2-3 years of production experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the food-related industry.
• Working knowledge of scheduling and production processes.

Works in a manufacturing environment where the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend and occasionally lift while moving about the facility. The employee is regularly exposed to fumes, odors, dust, oil, slippery floors and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the plant is loud. Earplugs, safety glasses, hairnets, beardnets (if facial hair exists) and steel toed / slip-resistant shoes are required in the plant in accordance with company GMP and safety standards.