Plant Hygiene & Sanitation Specialist

Kerry Malaysia; Butterworth; On-site; MYR 67,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Kerry Malaysia is seeking a Site Hygienist to deploy Kerry Sanitation Standards at our manufacturing site in Penang, working with the Regional Sanitation Team and cross-functional staff. You will implement standards, train teams, and ensure compliance with global hygiene and food safety criteria.

Ideal candidates have 2-3 years in sanitation/food safety within operations, with HACCP knowledge and the ability to drive IPM initiatives, communicate across functions, and support continuous

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of sanitation and food safety experience in operations quality.
• Experience with HACCP, hazard analysis and risk assessments with teams.
• Basic IPM knowledge is an advantage.
• Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams and implement sanitation systems.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Deploy sanitation training program and execute at site
• Conduct facility sanitation assessment assist with risk-based gap prioritization and support corrective action to enable compliance to Kerry Global Standard
• 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
• Work together with the pest control specialist partner in maintaining the Plant IPM ( Integrated Pest Management) programme
• Perform gap analysis and cross functional coordination in strengthening the plant IPM ( Integrated Pest Management) programme

Skills

Sanitation & Food Safety

Cross-functional collaboration

IPM

Education

Degree in Food Science/Food Technology/Food Engineering/Microbiology

Job description

Kerry Malaysia is seeking a Site Hygienist to deploy Kerry Sanitation Standards at our manufacturing site in Penang, working with the Regional Sanitation Team and cross-functional staff. You will implement standards, train teams, and ensure compliance with global hygiene and food safety criteria.

Ideal candidates have 2-3 years in sanitation/food safety within operations, with HACCP knowledge and the ability to drive IPM initiatives, communicate across functions, and support continuous