Sanitation Supervisor

Description

TITLE: Sanitation Supervisor 

REPORTING TO: Senior Manager, Food Safety Process Control 

LOCATION: Tulare, CA

Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career?

At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy—a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We’re building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact. 

From your PASSION to ours

The Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for the Sanitation of the plant, ensuring that we meet all the regulatory criteria used to measure cleanliness while still maintaining the department budget. Inspects sanitation work and assigns cleaning tasks outside of the daily duties. Responsible for implementing master sanitation of the plant to ensure compliances with internal, external requirements. The Sanitation Supervisor is also responsible for the supervision of employees in the Sanitation Department, implementing policies and procedures, coordinating and assigning work, recommending improvements to processes, equipment, operating procedures and coordinating with vendors to ensure proper service expectations are met. 

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Assists the Quality Department manager to enhance the technical and financial performance of the department.  Lead and control various sanitation parameters and implement corrective actions.
• Participates in the evaluation of adjustments of the sanitation processes through analyzation and evaluation of sanitation efficiency data to determine the negative or positive net effect, while also maintaining conformance with standards, specifications and regulatory requirements, once approved by QA Manager. 
• Responsible for coordinating cleaning inspections and pre-op inspections with department managers to ensure desired outcomes.
• Responsible for checking time, temperature, flow, conductivity, titrations and other related data to ensure CIP process is in compliance.
• Responsible for ordering chemicals and monitoring and optimizing chemical inventory.
• Responsible for monitoring swab results and master sanitation schedules to specification
• Responsible for maintaining all GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), all safety, and all regulatory requirements.  Take necessary action if performance or adherence are not to standard.
• Responsible for a variety of reports to include, but not limited to, periodic productivity and efficiency, chemical usage and spend, and training. 
• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments. 
• Schedules staff and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of daily job assignments.
• Responsible for the review and approval of the time records of all staff assigned. Will be required to explain variances in hours worked, productivity and any other function responsible for. 
• Work with all departments to ensure proper adherence to GMP, GSP, FSSC practices, and QC policies and procedures, and proper maintenance of equipment.  Keep department leaders informed on sanitation KPIs (CIP, clean-up, manual cleaning follow-up, valves, etc)
• Collects and provides any data necessary for budget creation, implementation and management.
• Cooperates with other management in establishing and communicating company policies, operating procedures and goals.
• Establish good relationship and communication with maintenance and site maintenance. 
• Executes quality assurance programs to prevent or eliminate defects in new or existing products. Follows food safety policies.
• Ensures effective employee relations by supporting and maintaining a safe and positive work environment. Analyzes and assists in resolving work and/or employee issues through problem resolution.
• Travel and / or extended or off work hours may be required
• This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education:

• High School Diploma or equivalent Required; 
• Associate’s Degree or higher Preferred 

Experience:

• 3+ minimum experience in dairy production and/or food industry
• 3+ years minimum experience management, supervision, or lead Required
• 3+ years minimum experience in food industry sanitation practices Required

Specialized knowledge:

• OSHA, Food Safety, FDA, USDA
• Sanitation Principles
• SDS, Chemical Safety
• Pest Control

Skills/Abilities:

• Effective and proficient communicator, both written and verbal
• Business acumen to include problem solving and analysis
• Able to manage time through efficient planning and organizing of daily work
• People Management skills
• Proactive, flexible, analytical, and attentive to detail

 At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally- recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.