Team Leader Sanitation

Title: Team Leader Sanitation

               

Location: Quincy, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Responsible for sanitation requirements of machinery, equipment, and facilities. Develops and maintains plant sanitation programs and procedures. Collaborates with engineers, suppliers, contractors and plant partners to ensure a clean and sterile facility. Assures compliance with regulatory agencies in regard to sanitation requirements and the use of cleaning and exterminating agents. Responsible for managing and owning various functions of the business and creating an engaged and team-oriented work force in order to improve sanitation results.

Job Description

• Plan, organize, execute, train, and monitor plant sanitation crew, processes, and methods
• Interpret, follow, implement and train employees on sanitation & corporate procedures
• Plan and execute daily, weekly, and periodic plant wide cleaning and sanitation activity – coordinate with production and maintenance
• Develop and maintains the plant Master Cleaning Schedule (MCS), the Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) per USDA regulations, the Plant Improvement Plan (PIP), and Environmental Swabbing Program
• Work with management for constant improvement of sanitation processes
• Conduct periodic plant inspections and audits, tracking progress of corrective actions
• Responsible for reporting any food safety issues to supervision.
• Works with pest control to manage and communicate gaps/deviations in program
• Ability to work off shifts and weekends if needed based on plant clean-up activities
• Follow required record keeping & training guidelines per audit standards
• Facilitate tour prep & audit prep clean-up activities for the facility 

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required, Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Complete understanding of Food Safety Guidelines/Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and safe practices and procedures
• Complete understanding of HACCP Plans
• Understanding of government regulations (FDA, USDA)
• Understanding of Clean In Place (CIP) and Clean Out Place (COP) systems
• Familiar with Fundamentals of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to read, write and speak fluent English
• Large organization/corporate experience
• Ability to prioritize and manage tasks
• Proficient computer skills
• Ability to read measurements
• Microbial knowledge is recommended
• Minimum of 3 years related experience

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Emp