LEAD SANITATION TECHNICIAN

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures each member of the Sanitation crew adheres to company Lock Out Tag Out and food safety procedures.
• Ensures each member of the Sanitation crew has been trained on how to safely handle and distinguish between authorized sanitation chemicals.
• Ensures each member of the Sanitation crew adheres to all company GMPs and follows company directives on regulatory, product quality, sanitation, food safety, employee and environmental standards.
• Distributes daily work load amongst sanitation technicians.
• Effectively communicates with Production, Warehouse, Maintenance and Quality, focusing on conducting effective and timely sanitation of specific areas within the food processing environment and pieces of equipment.
• Works with Sanitation Supervisor and Quality to develop and implement new procedures, techniques, and testing plans for monitoring effectiveness of sanitation.
• Aids in departmental training related to SOPs, GMPs, and procedural adherence and documentation.
• Maintains performance of sanitation crew to assure cleaning of food equipment and food processing environment is conducted per SOP requirements.
• Performs Routine Sanitation work including but not limited to area assessment, organization, cleaning, sanitizing and auditing.
• Generates work orders, tool checklists, chemical control, assists with the documentation maintenance of the Master Sanitation Schedule and other operations related GMPs.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to work in varying temperature conditions.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds including above head and below the waist for 50% or more of shift.
• Ability to stand for long periods.
• Maintains a forklift operators permit.