Description

Lactalis USA is currently seeking candidates to join our Sanitation team in Nampa. 

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

At Lactalis USA we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company. 

From your PASSION to ours

The Sanitation Supervisor manages, supervises and coordinates activities with food safety and sanitation programs in a food manufacturing environment. The position is responsible for management of plant cleaning, sanitation, and compliance with GMP’s, USDA & safety practices, sanitation policies and procedures. Sanitation supervisors reports to the Site Sanitation Manager.

Requirements

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include

• Supervises adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices regarding sanitation procedures.
• Monitors and audits, proposing adjustments as necessary to processing and packaging equipment cleaning systems/procedures to ensure optimal cleanliness.
• Ensures compliance with all company and regulatory sanitation food quality and food safety standards as well as employee safety and environmental standards.
• Works closely with management and production personnel on sanitation problems; recommending changes to improve sanitation policies, procedures, and cleaning effectiveness.
• Performs comprehensive sanitation audits on each unique production process to determine sanitation effectiveness. Communicates reports/trends/issues regarding inspections, sanitation deviations, and steps taken to resolve deficiencies via e-mail. Participates in sanitation and/or quality weekly meetings.
• Conducts training programs for all sanitation procedures/ topics and is responsible for the development and training of sanitation personnel in coordination with production. In room training & on the floor.
• Understands chemical specifications and their effectiveness/proper application for different processing/packaging equipment SSOP’s.
• Conducts scheduled sanitation validation audits, inspecting critical processing and packaging equipment to ensure proper clean ability/sanitization. 
• Participation as needed in commissioning of new equipment and process expansion. Monitor progress of CIP validation completion on site.
• Helps to ensure appropriate coverage of sanitation on site.
• Helps maintaining and revising departmental procedures including the master sanitation schedule and SSOP’s reflecting process improvements that maintain or improve pre-operational and operational hygienic conditions.
• Reviews and maintains sanitation documentation for Quality Assurance and regulatory review. Work with Quality team.
• Helps develop cost savings for chemical usage/ monitor chemical waste and look at opportunities to improve cleaning time and efficiency/ save chemicals when possible.
• Builds partnerships with production, quality, and human resources to ensure production and people’s goals are met.
• Works with a positive mindset & promotes a p ositive work environment.
• Follow up: Waste Disposal Monitoring – Plant Water Sampling – CIP Rinse water as needed.
• Checking Master Sanitation Plan with the departments; adjusting if necessary.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education-Required

• High school diploma/ GED

Experience

• Experience of leading/ supervising sanitation team in the food & beverage industry; and/or experience with quality supervision/ management specific to the dairy industry.
• Specialized Knowledge
• Chemicals/ Cleaning in place/ Cleaning out place/ Membrane cleaning/ Evaporators cleaning/ Dairy- cheese process.
• Skills / Abilities
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize workload to meet deadlines. 
• Continuous improvement: looking for ways to continuously improve quality.
• Work closely with production & quality to improve sanitation/ micro compliance. Using Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Reporting activities, communication skills, knows to work with autonomy & inside a team.
• Critical thinking/ Root cause analysis.
• Work safely and promote safety practices and behaviors.
• Follow up with chemical providers.