Hygiene Lead/ Microbiologist Lead

Kerry Malaysia; Plentong; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kerry Malaysia is seeking a Site Hygiene Lead to drive sanitation standards and food safety initiatives at its manufacturing plant. You will coordinate with the Regional Sanitation Team to implement SSOPs, train staff, and oversee cleaning validations across CIP and other systems.

This role reports to the Quality System Manager and requires strong communication across functions. The candidate should hold a related degree and have 3–4 years of sanitation experience in operations quality, with a

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-4 years of Sanitation & Food Safety experience in an Operations Quality role.
• Experience with prerequisite programs, HACCP, risk assessments.
• Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams and implement sanitation systems.

Responsibilities

• Deploy Kerry Sanitation Standards at manufacturing site with Regional Sanitation Team.
• Develop sanitation training programs and execute at site.
• Develop and validate SSOPs and deploy across process lines.
• Create MSS and train cross-functional teams.
• Report sanitation KPIs and drive improvements to meet targets.
• Ensure compliance to Kerry Global Standard and hygienic design principles.
• Lead microbiological and allergen cleaning validations for CIP, ACS, COP tanks.

Skills

Sanitation & Food Safety experience

Cross-functional communication

HACCP & risk assessment

Change agent & ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor degree in Food Science/Technology/Engineering/Microbiology

Job description

The Site Hygiene Lead is responsible for implementing Sanitation standard practice, ensuring compliance with all Kerry’s key customers, approved codes of practice and Kerry policies and procedures.

This role is responsible for implementing Sanitation and continuous improvement initiatives at manufacturing plant and drive food safety risk reduction program in alignment with Regional Sanitation Team.

Reporting to : Quality System Manager

Key responsibilities

Site Hygiene Lead will be involved in deploying Kerry Sanitation Standards at manufacturing site in liaison with the Regional Sanitation Team. The role will also be responsible for implementing those standards within site in conjunction with site cross functional team

Create relationships with cross-functional team integrate robust hygiene practices into plant operations

Provide standard insight to facilities for stored product pest management and facility pest control

Develop sanitation training program and execute at site

Develop and validate SSOPs and deploy at process lines

Conduct facility sanitation assessment assist with risk-based gap prioritization and support corrective action to enable compliance to Kerry Global Standard

Develop Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) for the manufacturing facility and train cross-functional teams

Deploying sanitation policies and culture at site to achieve “Stay Safe, Stay Clean” agenda

Assess site for compliance to corporate hygienic design, food safety and HSE standards

Conduct Microbiological and Allergen Cleaning & Sanitation Validations for Manual cleaning methods, Clean In Place (CIP), Assisted Cleaning Systems (ACS), Clean Out of Place immersion Tanks (COP tanks) and other automated cleaning mechanisms

Report sanitation KPI’s and implement plans to meet Sanitation and Food Safety targets

Prepares reports, presentations, operational documents, and other communications containing descriptive, analytical, and evaluative content related to sanitation activities subject to review and editing by higher-level staff members

Qualifications and skills

A Qualified Degree in Food Science/Food Technology/Food Engineering/Microbiology or related disciplines

Minimum of 3-4 years of Sanitation & Food Safety experience in an Operations Quality role

Experience with prerequisite programs, HACCP, Hazard analysis, risk assessments with teams

An ability to communicate with cross functional teams and implement sanitation systems

Excellent interpersonal communication, relationship management

Understand, interpret, and apply policies and procedures

Learn and effectively utilized specialized knowledge to improve sanitation practices at site

A change agent. Energized by making a difference and comfortable dealing with ambiguity

Must be effective in cross-functional working

Gather pertinent facts and data, make thorough analyses, and arrive at sound conclusions

Kerry is a world leader in taste and nutrition systems serving the food and beverage industry, and a leading supplier of added value brands and customer branded foods to the Irish and UK markets. We have annualised sales in excess of €5 billion and employ over 23,000 people globally. Founded in 1972 in Listowel, Co. Kerry, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions and has succeeded in achieving sustained profitability.

We supply over 15,000 food, food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide. We have established manufacturing facilities in 24 different countries and international sales offices in 20 other countries across the globe.

Kerry has been present in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997 and has grown its business to become a brand of choice for our regional and local customers. From our Regional Headquarters and Global Technology Innovation Centre based in Singapore, Kerry employs nearly 3500 talented people at manufacturing sites and sales offices in 16 countries across the region.

Kerry prides itself on continuous innovation, technological creativity and business excellence in every area of the business, striving to enhance leadership positions in our consumer foods business and across global food and ingredients markets.

Being a truly global company, our employees in Asia-Pacific have opportunities to develop their careers in a global environment, with training, career development and international opportunities across the Kerry world.

Our expertise leads the way

Kerry is a world leader in taste and nutrition systems serving the food and beverage industry, and a leading supplier of added value brands and customer branded foods to the Irish and UK markets. We have annualised sales in excess of €5 billion and employ over 23,000 people globally. Founded in 1972 in Listowel, Co. Kerry, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions and has succeeded in achieving sustained profitability.

We supply over 15,000 food, food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide. We have established manufacturing facilities in 24 different countries and international sales offices in 20 other countries across the globe.

Kerry has been present in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997 and has grown its business to become a brand of choice for our regional and local customers. From our Regional Headquarters and Global Technology Innovation Centre based in Singapore, Kerry employs nearly 3500 talented people at manufacturing sites and sales offices in 16 countries across the region.

Kerry prides itself on continuous innovation, technological creativity and business excellence in every area of the business, striving to enhance leadership positions in our consumer foods business and across global food and ingredients markets.

Being a truly global company, our employees in Asia-Pacific have opportunities to develop their careers in a global environment, with training, career development and international opportunities across the Kerry world.