Plans
and directs an operations staff of specialists in the general day-to-day
routine work in support of plant sanitation and pest control. Meets
strategic business needs by being involved in cross-functional teams.
Determines resources and provides technical guidance and leadership.
Advise
operations management on effectiveness of routine plant sanitation and
cleaning programs. Guide plants during special plant sanitation issues
including microbiological, environmental control, insect and foreign
material control. Ensure plant follow up of food protections programs to
detect and eliminate sources of contamination. Provide sanitary design
recommendations for new and existing equipment. Provide support for
customers and 3rd party audits. Follow up on Root Cause and Corrective
actions.
Support
the HAACP plan update and validate the plan and pre requisite programs.
Develop
and maintain cost effective programs and practices that are consistent
across all plants. Work closely with internal and outside sanitation vendors
to improve sanitation performance and costs. Implement and strengthen
Enterprise Sanitation guidelines that will be used in all ConAgra
facilities.
Proactively
utilize process metrics and experience to prevent problems that could affect
product quality and safety. Investigate sanitation issues, which are
resulting in product contamination, reduced shelf-life, or customer
rejection of products. Aid in the identification of root cause and
corrective actions.6. Customer Service: Work closely with customers on
sanitation type complaints. Visit customers to help resolve issues. Acts as
liaison between Plant and customer to maximize services provided.
Provide
educational and seminar opportunities for Plant Sanitarians. Introduce new
or improved cleaning and pest control methods, procedures, equipment,
technologies and other new developments in the field of sanitation and pest
control. Attend technical meetings to continually update knowledge in
advances in sanitation and pest control. Conduct internal sanitation and
pest control audits as needed.
Provide
recommendations for equipment and machinery-based change (new equipment,
retrofits or design modification of existing equipment – sanitary design
reviews). Work closely with Engineering and equipment vendors to assure that
new equipment meets sanitary design and regulatory design requirements prior
to installation.
Provide
expertise in the development of policies and procedures relating to
sanitation. Standardize practices across plants. This includes conformance
to quality and food safety standards and working with plant management and
others to ensure that these standards are met. Help establish manning
requirements for each plant based on needs.
Support
all pest management functions including the purchase, storage, inventory,
use and disposal of restricted use pesticides and other hazardous
substances. Position plays a technical support role between three key
functions: Pest management vendor, plant QA and Enterprise Procurement.
Spend
50% of time at the various ConAgra Mill facilities shop floor observing
process workflow, equipment operations, and that sanitation guidelines are
being followed.
