Sanitation supervisor

Birchwood Foods is an established family-owned ground beef manufacturing company with over 80 years of industry experience.

Birchwood Foods delivers ground beef solutions into foodservice and retail market channels. It operates four meat-processing facilities located in the United States.

The Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for the supervision of sanitation crew as they disassemble equipment; clean and sanitize equipment;

and reassemble equipment that utilized during daily first and second shift meat production.

Responsibilities :

• Assure proper staffing requirements are being met for departmental shifts
• Demonstrate and enforce all safety practices / policies
• Maintain the scheduling and facilitate the safety toolbox chats with staff twice a month
• Conduct coaching sessions with staff as needed
• Prepare and present the department’s daily production report.
• Assure efficiencies are met and / or exceeded.
• Perform Supervisor’s Accident Investigation as needed
• Manage employee time records
• Assure that all food quality standards are followed
• Verify HACCP and other documents as required by HACCP plan
• Assure that department is running as smooth as possible at all times and eliminate downtime
• Monitor GMP’s and enforcing policies of the company

Qualifications :

• 2 years sanitation supervisory experience with food industry background and familiarity with USDA and OSHA is required.
• College Degree in Meat / Agriculture Science and / or equivalent experience in the food / meat / sanitation industry preferred.
• Experience with Meat Manufacturing Sanitation Processes, CIP Systems, Chemicals, Industrial Equipment Cleaning and Sanitizing preferred.
• Strong leadership qualities, responsible, dependable, and organized
• Ability to work in a refrigerated environment

Last updated : 2024-11-18