Description

Butterball Farms, Inc. is a world-class food manufacturer on a mission to Enrich Lives and has been recognized as a West Michigan and National Best and Brightest Company to work for. With over 60 years in the industry Butterball Farms, Inc. is proud to give back to our employees, communities, and neighbors. We imagine butter differently, have a highly recognizable client list, and are known by our customers for our innovation, reliability, responsiveness, and our value-add approach to business. We are financially sound, rapidly growing, and poised for continued success. 

We are looking to add a Food Plant Sanitarian to our 3rd Shift Team. 

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive Benefits plan- Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD, STD, Critical Illness, Flex Spending, Dependent Care, Accident Insurance!
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid PTO and Holidays
• 401(K) Company Match
• Tuition Reimbursement

Requirements

The Food Plant Sanitarian is responsible for ensuring that our food processing facility meets all sanitary and hygiene standards set forth by regulatory agencies, including the FDA and USDA. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of food safety regulations and best practices, as well as practical experience in implementing sanitation protocols in a manufacturing environment.

Plant sanitation hands-on leader, expert, and advocate. Deploy, monitor, and enhance sanitation programs to assure processes are effective and meet company standards. Lead sanitation crews to include the coordination of CIP and manual cleaning activities, partner training, inspection, and continuous process improvement efforts.

Leadership Responsibilities:

· This position leads multiple direct reports, and multiple indirect reports in the Food Safety and Quality, and Sanitation Departments.

· Responsible for continuous learning and development of our 3rd shift Sanitation and Quality team members. 

· Responsible for daily compliance with Food Safety Standards, and timely completion of work and plant start-up. 

· Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff. 

· Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations. 

· Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy. 

Education and Experience:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science required, Master’s degree in Food Science, preferred. 

· Previous experience in food manufacturing or processing, with a focus on sanitation. 

· Extensive experience with BRC or SQF standards compliance. 

· Knowledge of FDA and USDA regulations pertaining to food safety and sanitation. 

· 3-7 years of experience in Food Manufacturing environment.

· Food Plant sanitation certification; pest and rodent control licenses is a plus.

· Proficient in sanitation procedures and GMP/IAB requirements within a food manufacturing environment.

· Clear understanding of quality, OSHA, FDA and USDA food safety requirements within a manufacturing environment.

· Self-motivated and able to work/manager independently with minimal supervision. 

· Ability to work weekends as needed. 

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

· Lead plant sanitation activities.

· Work with sanitation crews as well as leadership, production, maintenance, quality, other functions to effectively clean and sanitize equipment and the plant prior to resuming operation.

· Plan cleaning schedules and proper allocation of resources (labor, supplies, equipment and time) while preparing and executing successful transitions from sanitation to production. 

· Ensure processes are deployed effectively, efficiently, and safely.

· Responsible for crew performance through the use of training, coaching and performance feedback to assure delivery of effective sanitation processes.

· Monitor compliance through hands-on monitoring, inspection, swabbing and coaching.

· Maintain and administer plant sanitation records; use as a tool to monitor performance and improve sanitation practices based on results.

· Includes but not limited to pre-operation inspection, equipment swabbing, environmental monitoring processes.

· Administer, maintain, and monitor conformance to Master Sanitation Schedule.

· Work closely with production and maintenance partners to establish effective sanitation practices necessary to maintain a food safe environment.

· Coordinate training of sanitation partners on required job responsibilities.

· Assure cleaning procedures are maintained and updated, conducting plant wide and departmental training. 

· Deploy plant training modules; utilize internal resources and external expertise for partner development.

· Work with internal experts and suppliers to evaluate performance of existing suppliers of cleaning agents and technologies.

· Optimize resources through effective scheduling and coordination of lean but effective sanitation processes.

· Maintain a partner safe work environment through deployment and monitoring of JHA, lock-out/tag out and MSDS training and monitoring processes.

· Together with the leadership team, and the Food Safety Team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements. Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups. Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met. Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

· Ensure achievement of departmental KPI’s, continuous improvement projects and other key objectives align with the Company.