Lead Sanitation Technician — Food Safety & Process Expert

Kent Shared Services (Kent Corporation); Bolingbrook (IL); On-site; USD 32,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401k

Job summary

KENT Worldwide™ in Bolingbrook, IL is seeking a Lead Sanitation Technician to enforce process controls, SOPs, and FDA requirements for sanitation of the facility, equipment, and lines. The role will back up the Sanitation Supervisor and help coordinate cleaning schedules with production.

You will communicate activities across Production, Warehouse, Maintenance and Quality, and contribute to developing new sanitation procedures and testing plans to monitor effectiveness.

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

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.
• Assists in departmental training related to SOPs, GMPs, and procedural adherence and documentation.
• Monitors 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
• Under direction of Sanitation Supervisor, 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

Skills

Safety compliance

Team coordination

Communication

Tools

Forklift operation permit

Job description

KENT Worldwide™ in Bolingbrook, IL is seeking a Lead Sanitation Technician to enforce process controls, SOPs, and FDA requirements for sanitation of the facility, equipment, and lines. The role will back up the Sanitation Supervisor and help coordinate cleaning schedules with production.

You will communicate activities across Production, Warehouse, Maintenance and Quality, and contribute to developing new sanitation procedures and testing plans to monitor effectiveness.