Who We Are:
With over 13,000 employees at over 43 facilities across US & Europe, Hearthside Food Solutions is one of the fastest growing food companies and the industry’s largest contract manufacturer. Our secret to success? Our people. We know an investment in our people is an investment in our company. We strive to understand our team members and support them however we can. By empowering employees through skill development and career advancement opportunities, we emphasize a culture of continuous improvement – both for the business and our people. We want team members that will support us in owning safety together – speaking up when they see a problem. When we focus on our people and safety, it ensures we all are driving better performance as well as on time delivery to our customers!
What We Want to Give You: We offer a competitive wage and wide array of benefits including: • health/dental/vision insurance • flex spending accounts • short & long-term disability • paid holidays and vacation • bonus opportunities.
Job Summary: The Sanitation Manager/Supervisor ensures that all Safety, Quality (related to Sanitation), Continuous Improvement and Cost expectations are delivered. The Sanitation Manager/Supervisor drives the sustainable improvements across the shift, working closely with the General Manager, the Maintenance Manager, Quality Manager, staff and plant employees to achieve results. This position requires hands-on leadership.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overseeing the sanitation process
• Ensuring that health and safety guidelines are followed, and that continual improvement is made towards an injury free operation.
• Ensure key performance indicators in Sanitation areas are met or exceeded.
• Ensuring that the Sanitation process is cost effective, reliable, and meets all associated targets.
• Develop and track improvement in the use and efficiency of Sanitation labor resources.
• Coordinate set up and implement standard operating procedure for key Sanitation operations.
• Ensure that Sanitation does not detract from products are produced on time and are of good quality.
• Manage the adherence to prescribed procedures to ensure that quality (relating to sanitation) meets or exceeds planned goals. Work with Quality Manager to ensure that adequate processes are capable and improving.
• Ensure that human resources required to accomplish sanitation tasks are available; work with third party sanitation service and ensure that material resources (chemicals, tools, etc.) needed are available.
• Work with the Maintenance, Quality and Production to ensure sanitation related equipment PM’s (e.g. PEC’s) are completed timely as well as develop a good working relationship between production and maintenance personnel
• Ensure complete compliance to GMP’s, USDA regulations, and 5S processes.
• Estimate labor and operational costs for on-going operation and for new projects.
• Track competencies of subordinates and provide leadership and development as required to achieve the objectives.
• Monitor the Sanitation processes and adjusting schedules as needed.
• Implement and drive continuous improvement activities through implementation of change management process and best practices.
• Accomplish the above at other network plants in Manager role
• Liaise among different departments, e.g. other departments, corporate resources, other plants, suppliers, etc.
• Optimize resource utilization by implementation of an effective Sanitation organization. Ensure coaching and development of team and other key resources to meet business’s objectives.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• BS or BA in Science, Business or a related field, with between 5-10 years of applicable experience.
• Results oriented, possess strong interpersonal skills, be a team player as well as an independent worker and have strong and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Possess leadership skills as well as an appropriate amount of technical skills in a large-scale manufacturing environment. A strong working knowledge of LEAN Manufacturing techniques and related CI tools are required: Root Cause Analysis, Kaizen Blitz, Value Stream Mapping, OEE, First Hour Full Power, Labor Analysis, 5S, 7 Forms of Waste, Pit Stop Changeovers, etc.
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