Plant Sanitation Manager
Battle Creek, MIJobSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Plant Sanitation Manager oversees sanitation programs and processes at the Battle Creek manufacturing facility. The role supervises cleaning and sanitation staff, maintains sanitation schedules and monitoring programs, manages chemical inventory and supplier coordination, and leads allergen and pathogen validation. It also supports hygienic design reviews and audits, resolves sanitation issues, and applies food safety, microbiological, regulatory, and sanitation-process knowledge.
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Plant Sanitation Manager (Battle Creek, MI) - Oversee development and implementation of sanitation programs and processes for the manufacturing facility. - Monitor and supervise cleaning of plant production equipment and facility to ensure compliance with food safety requirements. - Ensure employees adhere to company policies and procedures while maintaining sanitation department efficiencies at or above established standards. - Support commitment to and continual improvement of Food Safety programs. - Develop and maintain the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), Pest Control Program and Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP), and related documentation to verify sanitation effectiveness and control contamination risks. Ensure proper staffing levels to efficiently conduct sanitation activities, including supervision of sanitation staff. - Manage chemical inventory quantities and coordinate with chemical suppliers regarding training and sanitation-related issues. - Lead annual allergen and pathogen validation activities for production lines, including line validation of process changes resulting from equipment modernization. - Support hygienic design reviews of equipment and facility layouts to ensure cleanability and minimize contamination risks during new installations or modifications. - Support internal and external audits by providing documentation and ensuring compliance. Investigate and resolve sanitation-related issues, including non-conformances identified during FDA, SQF, and MDARD audits. - Apply knowledge of HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) principles. Understand and apply basic microbiological principles. - Understand principles behind verification and validation methods and apply experience in application. Utilize in-depth food borne pathogen knowledge and knowledge and experience working with COP (Clean-Out-of-Place) and CIP (Clean-In-Place) operations. - Address environmental sanitation challenges using thorough knowledge and experience with diverse sanitizing applications and knowledge of food laws, Canadian and international standard regulations.
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