Sanitation Manager

Sanitation Manager3rdshiftAustin, MNSALARY RANGE:$85,000 - 95,000The Sanitation Manager is responsible for management of sanitation operations and staff, ensuring appropriate sanitation standards are met for SQF and regulatory compliance.REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:Bachelor s degree in food science or a similar field preferred;Minimum seven (7) years direct experience and working knowledge in Sanitation Management within the food industry;Sanitize in accordance with SOP s, HACCP, GMP, EPA, and OSHA requirements and product specifications;Organized and attentive to detail;Experience managing and developing staff;Able to independently translate overall direction and strategy into functional strategy and work plans;Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communicator across organizational levels and functions in this collaborative work environment;Develops solutions with creativity and innovative approaches;Work is performed with no immediate direction;Independently stablish actionable recommendations, strategies, and solutions based on high-level/undefined/changing business requirements;Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly fluid company environment with minimal direction and able to adjust workload based upon changing priorities;DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:Assist in the planning, supervising, and administration of sanitation programs, policies and practices designed to ensure cleanliness and regulatory compliance;Monitor, verify and validate equipment cleaning methods including recommendations to meet plant sanitation and microbiological objectives;Address sanitation requirements using Master Cleaning Schedules (MCS) and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP);Oversee and direct activities related to pest control including monitoring, recordkeeping, exclusion practices and treatment programs;Direct supervise and manage all employees engaged in cleaning and sanitation to assure effective, efficient cleaning of the facility during and after processing hours;Establish a time expectation for each area to be properly cleaned. Keep personnel to those times unless you deem more time is needed. Manage sanitation overtime and provide reasons for the overtime;Manage interviewing, hiring, terminations, employee relations, employee retention and advises management on personnel matters;Oversee employees to make certain employees are performing the job duties listed on their job description and using the correct tools for the job;Cross train employees to ensure staff can fill in or back up when needed;Responsible for the operation and staffing of the equipment washroom during and after production hours;Assure Sanitors clean both internally and externally following documented SOP's for all production equipment daily;Perform documented audits of Sanitors to verify they are following documented SOP's. Retrain when necessary;Order and select cleaning chemicals and equipment. Order shop supplies; cleaning chemicals, towels, floor cleaning chemicals, PPE, and any miscellaneous cleaning items;Monitor and adjust all cleaning chemicals when necessary. Monitor chemical usage and document;Perform other required tasks as assigned.Ability to manage third party vendors;Ability to work weekends.