Supervisor, Sanitation

Primary Responsibilities:

• Meets daily or as needed with QA Manager regarding departmental status and strategy.
• Cover for QA Manager / SQF Practitioner.
• Does initial training (orientation) for food safety, safety, food defense and biosecurity. How to use the Hortimax system. Assists with annual refresher training.
• Oversee the locker program. Assigns lockers and locks.
• Monitors the sanitation, housekeeping, and pest control technicians in GH1 and GH2. Helps write performance reviews and performance improvement plans (PlP's). Help with mentoring and setting SMART goals. Enforce good manufacturing practices and good agricultural practices for food safety.
• Monitor production activities for compliance to standards. Sample, test, audit and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures, and products are being manufactured in a safe & compliant manner.
• Maintain adherence to company and customer policies, safety standards and good manufacturing practices.
• Monitors equipment and supplies to properly support the completion of departmental tasks.
• Crosstrain and assist in other areas of the department as needed.
• Documentation Review to ensure documents are filled out completely and accurately for Food safety.
• FLC and H2A: Conduct regular contract and H2A housing inspections when needed. Transport H2A workers to and from WPH, housing or other necessary transport as needed.

Quality and Sanitation programs.

• Maintain all documentation binders ensuring they are up to date and investigate missing documents. Data entry of various information including but not limited to: Sphera - SDS system, Test Results from Mastronardi water samples, sanitation swabs and environmental swabs. Glass and Brittle Plastic Review. Pest trending. Glass breakage trending. Training attendance records, etc...
• Take swabs and collect water samples for laboratory analysis to support environmental, sanitation, food safety and regulatory programs. Review and verify laboratory analysis documentation is maintained.
• Perform monthly chemical review.
• Perform State Water Testing as required by the Maine Drinking Water Keeps Water License current and attends credit earning continuous education training as needed.
• Maintains HACCP certificate.
• Obtain Worker Protection Standard training for trainer's certificate.
• Obtain PSA Grower Training Course certificate.
• Obtain and maintain fork truck license.
• Must be able to work flexible hours based on an ever-changing production schedule.
• Transport employees to and from WPH, housing or other necessary transport as needed.

Perform all duties in a safe, competent, and professional manner abiding by all BYF policies and guidelines, including employee hygiene and GAP procedures.

Education/Background Requirements:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience are minimal required entry skills.
• Previous experience in QA is highly preferred. If not within the first 12 months of employment.
• Licensed Water System operator
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in the quality assurance/agricultural/food safety field.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• GMP GAP and HACCP certified preferred.
• Understand job specific applications of GMPs and GAP.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Food Defense training
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before a group of customers or employees.
• Must be punctual.
• Depending on needs, the employee may work outside on an infrequent basis.
• Work with enthusiasm and sense of urgency daily
• Must wear required PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) as provided.
• Perform other duties as required or directed.
• Must be able to apply common sense understanding to carry out multiple tasks throughout the day.
• Must be able to deal with a variety of specifications that are oftentimes challenged by variables that are beyond our control.
• Must be able to do simple math.
• Traveling: Some travel may be expected for this position
• Ability to potentially travel Internationally between greenhouse operations.

Working Conditions:

• Greenhouse Environment, where the temperature averages 70°F or more and may exceed 100 degrees.
• Occasional lifting and physical lifting may be required from twenty-five up to fifty pounds.
• Stand for extended times, walking on concrete and uneven surfaces. Sit for extended periods of time. Use of hands and fingers, handle, touch and manipulate items. Speak and/or hear. Walk and reach with hands or arms. Occasionally stoop, reach, kneel, crouch, and twist at the waist.
• Be comfortable with heights of 10 - 15 feet while working on raised trolley platform.
• Must be able to work around bees.
• Ability to work during off hours to address emergency conditions or situations that may arise.
• May be working around high-speed equipment and forklift/pallet truck traffic.