About Us:
Trilliant Food and Nutrition, located in Little Chute, WI is a state-of-the-art, vertically integrated production facility that has been a pioneer in the U.S. specialty coffee market since 1979. We have used our years of experience and skill in the traditional coffee segment to produce one thing: great coffee. Our facility features the most current, high-speed equipment to support our commitment to quality, value, speed-to-market, and innovation.
Horseshoe Beverage Company, located in Neenah, WI is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer focused on providing consumers with an outstanding beverage experience wherever, whenever. Leveraging industry-leading talent, state-of-the-art equipment, and our vertically integrated supply chain, we strive to be at the forefront of beverage innovation daily and deliver the highest quality beverages to our customers first.
The teams at Trilliant and Horseshoe come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm, and a promise to enhance the beverage experiences of millions of people. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit our openings.
Diversity and Inclusion at Trilliant and Horseshoe:
We believe talented, great people are the building blocks of our success. We believe in finding the right people, with the right attitude, and providing them with opportunities to excel.
Position Overview:
The Plant Sanitation Manager is responsible for leading the implementation of the sanitation and water resource program throughout the manufacturing plant. The successful candidate provides leadership and direction to the entire plant, on all shifts, including receiving, production, sterilization, and packaging in cleaning processes including CIP, COP, and manual scrubbing. The Plant Sanitation Manager acts as the technical liaison between operations, management, government agencies and the chemical supplier.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures, oversees, and manages the process and execution of daily sanitation operations.
- Maintains, oversees, and manages the process and execution of wastewater treatment
- Maintains, oversee,s and manages the process and execution of RO water treatment
- Assigns duties to sanitation and production staff.
- Performs Pre-op and Post-op inspections.
- Performs cleaning verification and validation programs to prove the effectiveness of the Sanitation program.
- Performs environmental testing and chemical titrations.
- Responsible for documentation of all sanitation programs.
- Maintains and updates all sanitation databases and records.
- Generates daily reports.
- Maintains master sanitation schedule.
- Enhances the master sanitation schedule and SSOPs in conjunction with the SQF Practitioner.
- Manages the sanitation staff.
- Hiring, employee development, and performance management.
- Provides leadership and training to personnel performing sanitation procedures and chemical handling.
- Coordinates corrective action/preventive action (CAPA) initiatives.
- Develops and manages the department's chemical budget.
- Maintains and organizes the chemical storage and sanitation supply areas.
- Acts as a liaison between personnel and outside contractors.
- Manages the pest control program.
- Approves chemical usage to align with organic certification.
Qualifications:
- Experience working in a food manufacturing environment.
- High school diploma required; higher education preferred.
- Knowledge of sanitation requirements within the Dairy Industry.
- 3 years of experience in a cross-functional role.
- Certified Sanitarian or equivalent.
- Knowledge of HACCP, Microbiology, Sanitation, Chemical Safety, Pest Control and Quality systems.
- Understand and comply with government regulations relating to OSHA, FDA, USDA, ODA and EPA.
- Knowledge of Pasteurization and HTST equipment.
- Proven ability to deliver results.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Highly personable and trustworthy.
- Proficient in computer operations/Microsoft Office.
- Ability to motivate staff about the importance of quality and sanitation.
- Develop and present detailed spreadsheets of sanitation data.
- Belief and ability to get staff buy in that Food Safety is everyone's job.
Hours, Location and Pay:
We offer a competitive base pay rate and comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. This role works out of our Neenah, WI manufacturing facility. Hours are generally Monday – Friday standard business hours with the ability to work off hours as business needs require.
Physical and Mental Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, use a personal computer and telephone. This employee may occasionally have to operate business machines and lift and/move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Mental demands include multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
- Potential for exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other potential hazards exists.
Safety Statement:
At Trilliant and Horseshoe, safety is every employee's first responsibility. We expect all employees to adhere to all safety practices, have the moral courage to stop other individuals from performing unsafe acts, and immediately report unsafe conditions.
Disclosures:
- The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
- Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
- Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
- Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage participate in the E-Verify process.
- EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled
- If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at ...@trilliantfood.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage are Equal Opportunity Employers.
- The principles of the OECD and UN have been taken into consideration and used as guidance in our human rights practices and procedures.