Sanitation Supervisor-Food Production - Wise Snacks

The Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for directing all activities associated with the sanitation operation. Oversees sanitation function to ensure compliance with all Company, industry, quality management programs and food safety systems. Ensuring the plant is always audit ready, and working with other Wise Foods plant facilities to determine Best Practices procedures.

This is a 3rd Shift position with the hours of 11:30pm-815am.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, implementation, documentation, training and on-going improvement of the sanitation program in support of the plant's Safe Quality Food (BRC) certification
• Develops and implements new methods, procedures, and systems to improve sanitation performance
• Ensure all equipment is maintained and operated according to established sanitary and housekeeping standards, to highest efficiency necessary
• Cooperate with engineering and production departments in the required maintenance of equipment and facilities
• Coordinate with plant Manager and QA Manager to assure proper follow up on all customer and regulatory issues (complaints, audits, and requests for information)
• Lead, teach and motivate all plant employees in pursuit of sanitation excellence and plant safety
• Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training and hazard assessments
• Schedule adequate staffing to ensure sanitation operations are complete on a timely basis
• Work closely to ensure SOP requirements are maintained
• Help to ensure all employees follow company and OSHA safety guidelines
• Communicate with other departments and management on sanitation concerns and actively make recommendation for changes in equipment, plant layout, or work practices to improve sanitation standards
• Plan cleaning schedule and proper allocation of resources
• Use initiative to find and correct non-complaint sanitation issues
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Education/Experience/Specific-job-related skills:

• B.S. in Food Technology, Engineering, Microbiology, or other related field is preferred
• Four years' experience in operations or plant sanitation activities with a minimum of two years in a supervisory role
• Must have a sense of urgency and drive for continuous improvement, problem solving, and root cause analysis
• Able to develop work instructions and documentation
• Training skills is a must have
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent trouble shooting skills and mechanical aptitude
• Experience with Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Power-point)
• Spanish as a second language would be an asset.

Our company offers a competitive package including vacation, paid holidays, 401(k), health, dental and vision insurance and voluntary STD, LTD, and life insurance benefits.

About Wise:

Wise Foods Inc. is a leading producer of salty snacks with a long heritage. Founded in 1921, Wise is a brand of tradition and authenticity that consumers have come to know and trust over the last 90 years. Since our inception, our iconic brand has symbolized great tasting snacks for many generations of consumers including potato chips; cheese flavored baked and fried corn snacks, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, onion rings and other assorted snacks. We market our products under some of the most recognizable brand names in the salty snack industry, including Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli and Bravos. We also produce private label products for a number of retailers. Products are distributed using a direct-store-door ("DSD") delivery and merchandising system and sold in major grocery retailers, neighborhood markets and urban bodegas, as well as established retailers in the mass, convenience store, drug, food service and club channels. Wise Foods is fully owned by Arca Continental, the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. We invite you to explore growing your career with Wise!

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