Sanitation Manager

Reporting to the Plant Manager you will lead the Sanitation Department at our Darien WI frozen food packaging facility. You will provide leadership for all sanitation operations food safety compliance activities pest management programs environmental monitoring initiatives and sanitation team development. You will oversee a team of 30 employees while partnering with operations maintenance engineering quality and external service providers to ensure safe efficient and compliant plant operations.

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

• Lead sanitation operations ensuring compliance with company sanitation procedures food safety standards and regulatory requirements.

• Supervise and develop a team of 30 sanitation employees providing direction training resource planning and technical leadership.

• Partner with operations quality maintenance engineering and external service providers to drive sanitation performance continuous improvement and business objectives.

• Manage sanitation environmental monitoring and pest management programs including trend analysis effectiveness evaluations and corrective action implementation.

• Lead investigations involving contamination risks environmental findings reduced shelf life customer complaints or other sanitation-related issues utilizing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.

• Develop implement and maintain cost-effective sanitation programs procedures and best practices while monitoring key performance indicators and reporting results to leadership.

• Serve as the technical expert for sanitary design by reviewing equipment installations modifications capital projects and new product introductions to ensure compliance with food safety and sanitation requirements.

• Validate cleaning methods sanitation plans and verification procedures for new equipment facility modifications and operational changes.

• Conduct internal sanitation and pest management audits and support regulatory inspections and external audits.

• Serve as the site resource for pest management programs facility repairs and good manufacturing practices that support effective pest prevention.

• Foster a culture of safety by ensuring sanitation personnel receive appropriate training and follow established safety practices.

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• Bachelors degree or equivalent related work experience.

• Minimum of 5 years of food manufacturing experience in sanitation leadership roles.

• Understanding of microbiological organisms and their impact on process design sanitary design sanitation programs and product safety.

• Knowledge of sanitary design sanitation systems environmental monitoring pest management food manufacturing processes and food safety principles.

• Knowledge of Food and Drug Administration United States Department of Agriculture Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point requirements and other food processing regulations.

• Strong leadership communication relationship-building and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Experience using performance metrics project management trend analysis and data-driven problem solving to improve sanitation and food safety outcomes.

• Bilingual English and Spanish language skills are preferred.

• Be available to provide on-call support as needed including responding to operational issues emergencies or business needs outside of regularly scheduled working hours.

Relocation assistance is available for this position. Preference will be given to local candidates.

Physical Requirements

More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites the physical requirements below may apply: You may be required to walk around the facility climb stairs/ladders kneel or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination. You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size. This is a manufacturing environment with large moving equipment. Noise levels can be high and temperatures may vary.

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Compensation

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employees actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal Conagra employees Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans wellness incentive program mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

• Wealth: Great pay bonus incentive opportunity matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

• Growth: Career development opportunities employee resource groups on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

• Balance: Paid-time off parental leave flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18000 person team across 40 locations you are empowered to reach your potential make an impact and own your career. Were in the business of building champions within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye Slim Jim and Reddi-Wip.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex race color religion ethnic or national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age pregnancy leave status disability veteran status genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national federal state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.