About the Company - 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.

About the Role - 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
• Responsible for supervisor’s upkeep of new hire training documentation and development
• 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