sanitation manager

Job Description

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Department Asia Pacific

QA Position Title

Zone Corporate

Sanitation

Manager

Report To Director QA-

AP Zone

Positions of Direct

Reports N/A

Functional

Report to

Director QA - AP

Zone REV. 01

General Purpose & Objectives:

Responsible for developing and administering policies, programs, training, and assessments related to sanitation

and cleaning practices targeted at eliminating microbiological issues and complying with company and

regulatory requirements.

Ensure continuity of all sanitation programs across all production facilities in Asia Pacific and drive for

improved performance.

Provide technical support and guidance to plant quality assurance staff and company management, as needed,

on all issues related to sanitation, allergen control, and GMP's.

Major Tasks & Activities

Develop, implement, and monitor AP zone wide sanitation programs, policies and practices related to

microbiological principles. Engage plant quality and operational staff to ensure successful program adoption.

Maintain standards and ensure they are updated to reflect changing requirements.

Collaborate with plant quality assurance staff on the validation of all sanitation processes according to current

regulations and OSI policies. Review assessment results and validate conclusions made regarding the likely

occurrence of food safety hazards.

Analyze and monitor key metrics across plants on a routine basis; take appropriate action when trends or results

fail to meet specified expectations. Provide on-going executive summary with sanitation performance data and

analysis of trends to management. Recommend sanitation metric goals.

Design and conduct a variety of sanitation policy, practice, and design audits; identifying areas for sanitation

quality improvements based on audit results by working with Engineering in the design and purchasing phases

of new equipment to minimize sanitary design flaws; follow up on corrective actions to ensure completion.

Key point of contact for troubleshooting sanitation related challenges including environmental monitoring.

Participate as technical subject matter expert during Food Safety Assessments, when responding to Regulatory

non-compliances, when evaluating sanitation vendors, during third-party audits of sanitation practices, during

critical food safety incident investigation to identify root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions, or

when various other third parties inspect or visit the facility to review sanitation practices.

Provide research, guidance and technical support to internal and external customers on the use of sanitation

practices to solve cleaning and microbiological issues or meet customer specific requirements to secure

business opportunity (such as new process sanitation protocol development & implementation, high risk

process intervention, sanitation allergen controls, etc.); includes participation in the food safety emergency

response program or other teams as directed.

As needed, conduct sanitation training, and provide both on-site and remote consultancy for Asia Pacific plants

to resolve challenges / answer questions / provide solutions.

Develop and maintain relationships with sanitation contract services, sanitation chemical and equipment

suppliers, and others in the industry to maintain the latest and most current information on the state of food

safety, industry direction and food sanitation issues that affect the operations of the Company.

Review and assess the performance results as well as coach and enhance the capability of Certified SME at each

Asia Pacific plant to grow them both personally and professionally.

Collaborate with the Global Director of Sanitation and sanitation counterparts in other Asia Pacific business

units or globally.

Perform other duties as assigned.

OSI Asia Pacific

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Quality Requirement:

College degree in one the relevant fields of Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology, Engineering.

Seven (7+) or more years of extensive management of sanitation programs in a food processing environment. Prefer

candidates with a minimum of two (2) years at the corporate sanitation level.

High degree of functional competency and technical understanding in sanitation practices, food processing

equipment sanitary design and sanitation chemistry.

Professional Certification on sanitation basic and hygiene design.

Working knowledge of the functionality of sanitation cleaning/sanitizing standards and system (7 steps of sanitation

execution, equipment sanitary design guidance, water and utility requirements, etc.), plant sanitation program

elements (SSOP, MSS, PEC, PIC, etc.), as well as other sanitation tools used for daily execution of CIP (Clean in

Place) and COP (Clean out of Place).

Experience in the use of sanitation intervention treatments on a wide variety of equipment.

Comfortable with wet and cold working environment and working in sanitation shift hours.

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, verbally and in writing via English and Chinese.

Possess good interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills with an analytical, detailed & result oriented

mind.

Need to be able to work independently and demonstrate leadership skills with the ability to influence others where no

direct line of authority exists.

Must be able to travel a minimum of 50% (up to 70%) within or outside India.

Must be able to work on flexible shift hours for troubleshooting, coaching and assessments when the need arises or

requested for initiation of new projects or new process.