Sanitation Team Leader- 3rd shift

SUMMARY
To oversee all sanitation operations at our food manufacturing facility related to the processing and packaging equipment disassembled, cleaned, rinsed, sanitized, then reassembled properly for the following production day.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Assist Corporate Director of Sanitation and Plant Sanitation Manager in team compliance for SQF certification.
• Maintaining overall condition of plant ensuring facility is always “audit ready”.
• Supervise all employees for safety adherence, PPE compliance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and plant rules and regulations.
• Ensure cleaning and sanitizing procedures are completed in compliance for daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly per Preventive Maintenance Schedules (PM's). Maintain “Daily Safety Captain Log Program”.
• Understanding the principles of CIP “Re-Use Systems”: Flow, Conductivity, Temperature, and Time; assuring we are adhering to company standards.
• Ability to troubleshoot CIP tank and line circuitry.
• Knowledge and understanding of all types of chemicals used for all applications on CIP and COP related equipment.
• Insure compliance to Ken’s sanitation policies and procedures.
• Daily Administrative duties include reviewing, verifying and approving CIP Charts, Pre-Op/Daily Check List Sheets, and populating Sanitation Schedule & Variance Control Sheets, completing in detail the EOD (end of day) report.
• Ensures compliance with corporate standards and systems to monitor food safety, food safety culture, quality and facility cleanliness
• Commitment to safety begins with management. Managers and frontline supervisors are accountable for creating and maintaining a culture of Safety and assuring a safe work environment.
• Other duties as assigned

FOOD SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure all work is completed in a safe and sanitary manner.
• Follow all Ken’s Foods SQF, Food Defense and GMP policies.
• Report any suspicious activities anywhere in or around the plant.
• Monitor the work area for any possible product contamination issues before, during, and after sanitation activities.
• Assign and work with a team member to perform pre-start up inspections to ensure no product contamination risk exists and the area is in a sanitary condition.
  
  

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Directly manages Foreperson and employees in the Sanitation department. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of this unit. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
This job does not require any specific certificates, licenses, or registrations.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.


ESSENTIAL MENTAL ALERTNESS REQUIREMENTS
• Work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner
• Ability to perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment
• Not mentally or physically impaired from any cause that can adversely affect ability to safely and competently perform the duties of the position
• Ability to take prompt and appropriate response to operating conditions
• Ability to work in an unfatigued state
• Ability to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance
• Ability to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short term memory
• Ability to concentrate
• Ability to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms
• Demonstrated caring, committed and concerned attitude about safety

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.