Sanitation Lead

Department: Sanitation • Reports to: Quality Supervisor • Location: Cranston, RI

About the role

This role is focused on helping meet and establish food safety/sanitation protocols and policy requirements throughout the facility. To help develop and keep accurate records and documentation with HACCP programs.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Assist with managing, motivating, coaching, and leading the sanitation team. Assist with planning sanitation requirements and activities by establishing priorities, scheduling, assigning work and communicating with sanitation staff and key stakeholders frequently and regularly within timelines.
• Training and Development: Assist with training sanitation employees on HSE policies, GMP and SSOPs. Ensuring a safe work environment through safety awareness, practice, and promotion.
• Sanitation Supervision: Oversee the cleaning and sanitization of equipment, surfaces, utensils, and plant environment by providing direction, working ‘hands on’ to motivate and provide technical support to all sanitation employees and other plant employees as required.
• Compliance: Assist the Quality Supervisor with auditing and reporting non-compliance and take correct actions to ensure compliance with all quality assurance and food safety requirements on a regular and daily basis.
• Documentation: Review and approve daily sanitation related documentation, assist with monitoring and updating Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and actively participate in audits, and perform sanitation effectiveness verifications as required by internal policies.
• Inventory Management: Assist with ordering, managing inventory and safe storage of sanitation and cleaning substances.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent required. Degree or technical certification a plus.
• Supervisory Experience: 5 years of supervisor or team leader experience preferred.
• Sanitation Experience: Previous knowledge of custodial or sanitation practices and production food safety procedures preferred.
• Leadership Skills: Ability to lead, motivate, and manage a team effectively.
• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with Microsoft Office.
• Mechanical Aptitude: Mechanically inclined, familiarity with production and warehouse equipment a plus.
• Forklift: Forklift certified or willingness to obtain.
• Flexibility: Willingness to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, if necessary.

Benefits

Finlays Solutions is committed to supporting the career advancement and wellbeing of our employees. We offer a range of comprehensive benefits, including a wellness program, learning and development allowance, and opportunities for mentorship and job shadowing, designed to support both personal and professional growth.

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Company Matching
• Eligibility for Monthly / Annual Bonuses
• Paid Time Off (PTO) plus 10 Paid Holidays and Paid Volunteer Days Off
• Volunteer / Community Involvement

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

• Working Setting: The role is primarily based in a warehouse and food production environment with wet, hot and humid conditions.
• Team Collaboration: Frequent interaction with team members and other departments, requiring effective communication and collaboration.
• Noise Level: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, with some loud noises.
• Mobility: Required to walk, stand, bend and reach for duration of shift.
• Lifting: Ability to lift 50lbs regularly.

Pay

$22/hr

Schedule

40hrs/week, Second Shift, Monday–Friday, 1:00pm–9:30pm