Sanitation Supervisor

Step into a leadership role where your commitment to safety, quality, and teamwork makes a daily impact. At Country Fresh in Grand Rapids, MI, we’re looking for a Sanitation Supervisor who’s ready to champion high standards and help shape a culture of excellence. In this pivotal position, you’ll guide a dedicated sanitation team, ensuring unwavering compliance with company policies, OSHA regulations, and food safety requirements—all while driving efficiency and continuous improvement. If you’re passionate about mentoring others and supporting world-class quality assurance, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and make a difference.

Shift:  3rd

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Schedule, assign and monitor work, and provide clear direction to the sanitation team to meet the needs of the business. Ensure effective selection, retention, feedback, disciplinary action, and performance management.
• Train and instruct employees regarding sanitation standards, good manufacturing practices (GMPs), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs), and objectives. Oversee instruction, implementation, and enforcement of policies as they relate to employees.
• Implement and maintain sanitation programs and ensure compliance with company standards and directives.
• Collaborate with other supervisors to coordinate activities to identify, solve, and prevent problems affecting sanitation.
• Conduct audits of sanitation and clean-in-place (CIP) processes to ensure compliance with SSOP’s.
• Recommend measures to continuously improve sanitation methods, equipment performance, and quality of products produced and distributed by the facility.
• Validate SSOP’s annually or when systems are modified.
• Manage relationships with outside vendors (e.g., chemical supplier).
• Working cross functionally and collaboratively with DFA operations, QA&C and chemical supply vendors, develop, implement, and continuously improve on sanitation programs, policies, and key performance indicators (KPI’s).
• Maintain safe working conditions for employees and compliance with all state and federal regulations regarding health and safety issues.
• Follow all DFA good manufacturing practices (GMP) and work in a manner consistent with all corporate regulatory, food safety, quality, and sanitation requirements.

• Undergraduate degree in food science or related curriculum (or equivalent combination of experience and education).
• 2 to 5 years sanitation or related experience coupled with demonstrated leadership attributes or team leadership experience; supervisor experience preferred.
• Ability to understand technical documents, dilutions, percentages, and basic mathematical formulas for chemical concentrations.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment with facilities, regulatory agencies, and customers.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite with the ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Certification and/or License – may be required during course of employment.

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disabled/Veterans