Sr Manager, FSQA Corporate SanitationAjinomoto Foods North America, Inc.

Sr Manager, FSQA Corporate Sanitation

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Job ID: 2025-8733
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Field

Overview

The Senior Sanitation Manager is responsible for:

Identifying and managing sanitation projects to ensure product quality and consistency, reduce food safety risk and eliminate waste at AFNA manufacturing sites.

• Developing and implementing performance based sanitation and continuous cleaning of equipment across AFNA enterprise.
• Providing leaders/operational teams with contemporaneous reporting safety and sanitation key indicators.
• Ensuring third party audit sanitation compliance and success at AFNA manufacturing sites.
• Collaborate with AFNA corporate departments and plant leadership to carry out sanitation based holistic loss analysis and reduction responsibilities in accordance with AFNA procedures and applicable regulatory laws.
• Integrate Sanitation improvement projects into Plant Master Plan (TPM) activities in accordance with ANFA Way.
• Troubleshoots environmental positive results and ensures corrective actions are implemented.
• Provides technical sanitation support and feedback to the plant sanitation departments.
• Dotted line to plant Sanitation Managers

Responsibilities

Manage sanitation improvement projects in the areas of:

• Quality and Consistency - Match the specification
• Performance-based sanitation
• Multi-plant comparative sanitation evaluations
• Compliance to cleaning standards and practices
• Improvement in sanitation efficiency KPIs
• Meet goals for sanitation time frames
• Statistical process control improvement
• Reduce food safety and ensure product quality and consistency.
• Sanitation program compliance
• HACCP/food safety plan prerequisite program compliance
• Sanitation optimization
• Third party audit compliance
• Preoperational inspection compliance and improvement
• Environmental monitoring and follow-up
• Eliminate loss
• Help improve Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) through on time startup of equipment
• Held product loss reduction
• Statistical Process Control
• Mentorship/growth and development of future Sanitation leaders
• Proper use and chemical concentration of chemicals
• Reduction in labor metrics
• Project to reduce total declared cost from a sanitation standpoint

Assist leadership in developing and maintaining information Architecture:

• Identify key indicators across manufacturing sites
• Environmental monitoring and follow-up
• Sanitation standards and timelines
• Statistical Process Control
• Overall Plant Effectiveness as following AFNA’s OEE definition
• Preoperational and production startup

• Develop contemporaneous data collection, i.e. the report is generated at the same time as the observation.
• Plant internal sanitation audits
• Incident investigation and Corrective Action Reports
• Preoperational and startup metrics
• Environmental monitoring
• Sanitation standards and timelines
• Develop dashboards for plant and corporate leadership
• Assist site leadership includes not only FSQA/Sanitation but also all plant leadership members in executing and utilizing dashboard information
• Conduct follow up studies and calibrate data with a plant team periodically in order to maintain data integrity

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure AFNA manufacturing sites are compliant with FDA/USDA and GFSI requirements.
• Perform plant sanitation audits as necessary to prepare AFNA sites for third party audits
• Assist with risk assessments and appeal letters to defend manufacturing sites from regulatory overreach.

Collaboration and Integration with the AFNA Way

• Collaborate with CI and FI pillar leaders to develop and maintain information architecture.
• Support root cause analysis and problem solving using “See Think Plan Do” methodology.
• Assist plant leadership (TPM pillar leaders) to utilize the key indicators.
• Integrate Sanitation improvement projects into plant master plan.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 – 10 years of experience in Food Manufacturing Sanitation with at least half of the experience being in a supervisory capacity is required.

• BS or higher degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Microbiology, Biology or other related science. Experience may be considered in the absence of a higher degree.

• TPM (Total Performance Management) /OEE based Food Manufacturing knowledge and experience preferred

• Budget/Cost Control – general understanding of Sanitation budgeting and cost control functions, with ability to perform budgeting/cost control processes.

• Presentation Ability – ability to make clear, concise and convincing business presentations.

• Analytical – ability to independently perform, mentor and manage others in conducting complex technical analysis of sanitation data, and statistical process control (SPC)

• Leadership – ability to act as team leader for special task assignments and manage suppliers through influence.

• Communication Skills – excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical writing and presentation skills.

• Interpersonal Skills - must have strong interpersonal skills and ability to manage internal and external support through influence. An outgoing personality with the ability to work individually and in a team environment successfully.

• Organizational Skills – must have excellent organizational skills to prioritize multiple projects with various simultaneous deadlines. Must be detailed and accurate.

• Judgment/Decision Making – ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and make appropriate business judgment and recommendations independent of supervisor. Ability to work under pressure and short time lines

• Computer Skills – working knowledge of Microsoft based software, including Excel, Word and Outlook

• Travel – Approximately 40 – 60%

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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