Quality and Sanitation Generalist in a dairy plant that needs to be fluent in Spanish.
Base pay is $65,000 to $80,000 + 10% bonus potential.
The shift is Sunday through Thursday, 4:00 AM to 12:30 PM.
Summary:
Responsible to implement, verify and improve the sanitation programs in accordance with regulatory, customers, company and food safety standard systems requirements
Essential Duties and Responsibiliti
- Apply and enforce all quality and food safety programs
- Verify cleaning activities and perform equipment / building cleaning verification after sanitation activities. May have to decide to postpone start-up if the expected results are not met
- Take necessary measures when there is deviation from policy and standards. May have to decide to stop production activities if there is any food safety or quality critical deviation
- Alert appropriate personnel if employees are not following required programs
- Perform daily GMPs audits and follow correction/ corrective actions as needed
- Apply and enforce all quality and food safety programs
- Work closely with maintenance for work orders implementation and follow up after audit
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Assist in the inspection of non-conforming products as needed
- Implement / update SSOP with departments as needed and assist on training if needed.
- Translate departments documentation in Spanish as needed
- Train sanitation personnel as needed (sanitation good practices, chemicals, equipment verification): Spanish required
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- Perform monthly review training for new employees and yearly quality / food safety refresher training: Spanish required
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- Supervise janitors’ activities and organize their schedule
- Follow and apply safety rules and comply with all company policies and procedures
Schedule: Typical hours Sunday to Thursdays :4am to 12:30pm -Work off-shift hours as needed- weekends required
Education and/or experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in dairy manufacturing or food science preferred
- 3-5 years’ experience as sanitation supervisor required .
Specialized Knowledge is required in:
- Sanitation: chemicals good practice
- Diary process equipment
- Microbiological knowledge
- Spanish – fluent to be able to translate documents and train people.
Relocation for this role if not a local candidate would be around $5,000 (gross). Client can also provide temporary housing for up to 2 months for a relocation.
