Description

The Senior Sanitation Manager is responsible for:

Identifying and managing sanitation projects to ensure product quality and consistency, reduce food safety risk and eliminate waste at AFNA manufacturing sites.

• Developing and implementing performance based sanitation and continuous cleaning of equipment across AFNA enterprise.
• Providing leaders/operational teams with contemporaneous reporting safety and sanitation key indicators.
• Ensuring third party audit sanitation compliance and success at AFNA manufacturing sites.
• Collaborate with AFNA corporate departments and plant leadership to carry out sanitation based holistic loss analysis and reduction responsibilities in accordance with AFNA procedures and applicable regulatory laws.
• Integrate Sanitation improvement projects into Plant Master Plan (TPM) activities in accordance with ANFA Way.
• Troubleshoots environmental positive results and ensures corrective actions are implemented.
• Provides technical sanitation support and feedback to the plant sanitation departments.
• Dotted line to plant Sanitation Managers

Manage sanitation improvement projects in the areas of:

• Quality and Consistency - Match the specification
• Performance-based sanitation
• Multi-plant comparative sanitation evaluations
• Compliance to cleaning standards and practices
• Improvement in sanitation efficiency KPIs
• Meet goals for sanitation time frames
• Statistical process control improvement
• Reduce food safety and ensure product quality and consistency.
• Sanitation program compliance
• HACCP/food safety plan prerequisite program compliance
• Sanitation optimization
• Third party audit compliance
• Preoperational inspection compliance and improvement
• Environmental monitoring and follow-up
• Eliminate loss
• Help improve Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) through on time startup of equipment
• Held product loss reduction
• Statistical Process Control
• Mentorship/growth and development of future Sanitation leaders
• Proper use and chemical concentration of chemicals
• Reduction in labor metrics
• Project to reduce total declared cost from a sanitation standpoint

Assist leadership in developing and maintaining information Architecture:

• Identify key indicators across manufacturing sites
• Environmental monitoring and follow-up
• Sanitation standards and timelines
• Statistical Process Control
• Overall Plant Effectiveness as following AFNA's OEE definition
• Preoperational and production startup

• Develop contemporaneous data collection, i.e. the report is generated at the same time as the observation.
• Plant internal sanitation audits
• Incident investigation and Corrective Action Reports
• Preoperational and startup metrics
• Environmental monitoring
• Sanitation standards and timelines
• Develop dashboards for plant and corporate leadership
• Assist site leadership includes not only FSQA/Sanitation but also all plant leadership members in executing and utilizing dashboard information
• Conduct follow up studies and calibrate data with a plant team periodically in order to maintain data integrity

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure AFNA manufacturing sites are compliant with FDA/USDA and GFSI requirements.
• Perform plant sanitation audits as necessary to prepare AFNA sites for third party audits
• Assist with risk assessments and appeal letters to defend manufacturing sites from regulatory overreach.

Collaboration and Integration with the AFNA Way

• Collaborate with CI and FI pillar leaders to develop and maintain information architecture.
• Support root cause analysis and problem solving using "See Think Plan Do" methodology.
• Assist plant leadership (TPM pillar leaders) to utilize the key indicators.
• Integrate Sanitation improvement projects into plant master plan.

• Minimum 7 10 years of experience in Food Manufacturing Sanitation with at least half of the experience being in a supervisory capacity is required.

• BS or higher degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Microbiology, Biology or other related science. Experience may be considered in the absence of a higher degree.

• TPM (Total Performance Management) /OEE based Food Manufacturing knowledge and experience preferred

• Budget/Cost Control general understanding of Sanitation budgeting and cost control functions, with ability to perform budgeting/cost control processes.

• Presentation Ability ability to make clear, concise and convincing business presentations.

• Analytical ability to independently perform, mentor and manage others in conducting complex technical analysis of sanitation data, and statistical process control (SPC)

• Leadership ability to act as team leader for special task assignments and manage suppliers through influence.

• Communication Skills excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical writing and presentation skills.

• Interpersonal Skills - must have strong interpersonal skills and ability to manage internal and external support through influence. An outgoing personality with the ability to work individually and in a team environment successfully.

• Organizational Skills must have excellent organizational skills to prioritize multiple projects with various simultaneous deadlines. Must be detailed and accurate.

• Judgment/Decision Making ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and make appropriate business judgment and recommendations independent of supervisor. Ability to work under pressure and short time lines

• Computer Skills working knowledge of Microsoft based software, including Excel, Word and Outlook

• Travel Approximately 40 60%

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