Sanitation Manager, Snack Food Mfg.

Shearer's is a leading contract manufacturer and private label supplier in the snack industry in North America. Headquartered in Massillon, Ohio, Shearer's has 17 state-of-the-art, geographically diverse manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,  Virginia, Iowa, Ontario and Alberta, Canada, including one of the industry's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum LEED certified facilities in Massillon, Ohio. The Company is known for producing the highest quality snacks in assorted flavors and sizes, including kettle cooked potato chips, traditional potato chips, tortilla chips, cheese curls and other extruded snacks, and corn chips, as well as cookies, crackers, and wafers.

 

Sanitation Manager

Location: Perham, Minnesota 

Work Schedule: Hours are variable.  Some weekend coverage will be required.

 

Overview, Essential Duties, and Responsibilities:  

Overview

Your role as Sanitation Manager is accountable for leading the safe and efficient cleaning and sanitation of the food manufacturing equipment and the surrounding environment in accordance with all Company, Customer, Certification and Regulatory requirements. You will be responsible for establishing a local cleaning and sanitation program inclusive with goals and metrics, employee training & development, defined strategies, procedures, safety, risk management, continuous improvement plans, verification, and validation protocols.  Reporting to the Plant Site Director, the Sanitation Manager collaborates with other areas of the operation and external vendors to implement the facility Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Chemical Programs, and daily operational cleaning. This position manages dedicated and, in some locations, voluntary sanitation personnel from all shifts of the operation. The role supports facility compliance and sanitation records verification.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

Implement a cleaning and sanitation program that creates a safe environment suitable for the manufacture of human food and a sustainable culture of sanitation proactively supporting production.

The Foundation:

• Define the sanitation organization and responsibilities for the site.
• Establish employee goals and leadership development strategies.
• Conduct risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure the policies and procedures are up to date and communicated to the organization.
• Train employees to build capability and knowledge in sanitation techniques, work safety procedures, IPM, and teamwork.
• Build a sustainable culture of safety within the organization.
• Develop sanitation goals and key performance metrics for continuous improvement and to align with key operational targets. 
• Develop checklists and other forms to record effectiveness checks and key performance data.
• Develop operational (daily) cleaning schedules, MSS, and IPM schedules and monitor results of these programs.
• Plan, manage and modify sanitation personnel schedules, assignments, and cleaning sequences to meet performance standards and MSS requirements.
• Coach team members in the principles of effective wet and dry sanitation.

Proactive Sanitation:

• Active in review of projects for hygienic design and environmental risks.
• Lead the risk assessments in major construction projects in the plant.
• Active in the Plant Environmental Monitoring program, collaboratively monitoring the environment for pathogens and taking the necessary actions to prevent food contamination.
• Lead initiatives to be more efficient in water usage, chemical usage, unplanned downtime, and labor.
• Collaborate with maintenance to develop and improve building and fabric conditions, equipment maintenance work, and reliability.
• Develop strategies for innovative cleaning solutions.

Sanitation Reliability:

• Collaborate with the plant leaders to implement Change Management procedures for procedures, chemicals, equipment, and infrastructure modifications.
• Develop an internal auditing program for sanitation, pest control effectiveness.
• Implement verification and validation programs for sanitation and IPM.

Perform additional duties as assigned that may include but not be limited to:

• Serve as the facility primary contact and support for external resources such as chemical vendors, IPM contractors and waste collectors.
• Serve as department back up for PCQI and SQF Practitioner in absence of Quality Manager.
• Support policy compliance, procedure execution and records collection to ensure consistently succes