Senior Sanitation Supervisor

 Title:  Senior Sanitation Supervisor, 3rd Shift   Req ID: 5118

City, State:  Mocksville, NC

Reports to:  Sanitation Manager 

Classification:  Exempt 

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JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Summary: The Senior Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for the leadership of sanitation team members, procedures, programs, and regulatory requirements, ensuring all plant equipment is clean and safe for production.

 

Essential Functions:

 

• Empowers team members: Will empower team members through leadership and supervision, training, and feedback opportunities, to meet and exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety. Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments. 

 

• Ensures compliance of company policies and procedures: Safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF.

 

• Coordinates and guides team members:  Will provide training on a variety of situations including startups, shutdowns, preoperational inspections, product changeovers, change management concerns and sanitation.

 

• Provides back-up support:  Fills in for the sanitation manager during absences and for sanitation supervisors as needed.

 

Required Qualifications:  

• Demonstrated six years supervisory or leadership skills in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team OR a bachelor’s degree and three years of supervisory or leadership experience in a USDA regulated facility leading a sanitation team.
• Demonstrated expertise and competence in sanitation/production processes; ability to supervise multiple departments/processes at once.
• Working knowledge of industrial sanitation chemicals usage and applications.
• Working knowledge of USDA regulations, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), sanitation processes/procedures and HACCP.
• Demonstrated mechanical and spatial aptitude, including the ability to disassemble and reassemble equipment and the ability to formulate and understand complex mathematical equations.
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a team-focused approach and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations. 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in poultry science, food science, biological sciences, or closely related field
• Prior experience in a poultry facility
• Prior experience with SAP or Infinity
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred
• Competent in Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and Outlook

• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR

 

Supervisory Responsibility: This position assists the Sanitation Manager with the operation of all the Sanitation Team Members at the Mocksville facility.

 

Work Environment:  Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment. 

 

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing at times, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.