Sanitation Team Leader

Wonderbrands, is a leading North American bakery (formerly Weston Foods, fresh and frozen businesses) with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads, artisan breads, and donuts. We are one of the largest bakeries in North America and makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa.

Wonderbrands, a division of FGF Brands, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake.

**Job Overview**:
The Sanitation Team Leader is responsible for providing the overall leadership and direction for a team of 30 hourly sanitation employees spread across 3 shifts. This ‘hands on’ leader is responsible for the development and execution of the sanitation program by providing technical support and overseeing the cleaning and sanitization of equipment, surfaces and plant environment.

The Sanitation Team Leader strives for continuous improvement by analyzing sanitation performance metrics, determining root causes and implementing effective corrective actions to meet food safety and product quality standards, in addition to optimizing operational efficiency.

This role leads and engages their team towards compliance with GMPs, Safety, WHMIS, HACCP and corporate standards associated with the sanitation process.

**Shift**:

- Generally Day shift to cover overlaps amongst 3 shifts
- Expectation of shift flexibility for leadership reasons (Investigations, Audits, Overhauls)
- Workdays: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday (potential to adjust if needed)
- Mandatory Overtime Shifts are paid

**Core Responsibilities**:
Sanitation Program
- With a continuous improvement mind-set, elevate the bakery sanitation program to ensure a gold standard of cleanliness is achieved across the facility which exceeds industry standards
- Oversee the development and execution of the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) through the scheduling of labour to clean and sanitize equipment, surfaces and plant environment to accomplish sanitation practices according to Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs).
- Participate in capital projects planning, new equipment installations and new product lines by providing sanitation recommendations and expertise
- Audit sanitation-related activities, report non-compliances and take corrective actions to assure compliance to all quality assurance / food safety requirements. Update sanitation program documents to reflect improved processes or procedures, train and verify compliance by front line employees
- Measure and analyze sanitation performance metrics and participate in weekly meetings (as required) to review findings and assign investigation and corrective action responsibilities to drive continuous improvement.
- Partner with QA on a Pest control program for the identification and elimination of pests.

Safety, Health and Environment
- Promote the company’s health and safety program by maintaining a safe working environment
- Ensure continued compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and JHSC recommendations
- Ensure compliance with Environmental and waste water standards.
- Responsible for team member adherence to lock-out/tag-out of equipment prior to and during the cleaning process

Food Safety
- Establish a strong culture of Food Safety with all team members and ensuring all are educated on compliance, legal requirements and food safety standards, policies and protocols
- Ensure product quality by mitigating visual, microbiological and chemical contamination through equipment and facility sanitation

Cost
- Delivers against annual cost targets through careful tracking of labour resourcing, chemical and supply usage, driving issue resolution / continuous improvement efforts and effective project management
- Optimize supply of chemical and material spend in alignment with corporate preferred supplier programs
- Cross-reference vendor invoices with inventory to ensure billing accuracy

Productivity
- Track cleaning window efficiency to attain and exceed budgeted targets
- Develop cost effective manpower schedules based on projected volumes and historical records
- Monitor planned volume and adjust labour needs to support production requirements

People & Morale
- As a strong people leader, the Sanitation Team Leader must be aware of their team members’ competencies to unleash their potential and development
- Inspires, coaches, develops and engages the team to work collaboratively
- Create and drive a culture that motivates them to collectively achieve the business goals.
- Enables open communication with their team to speak up for clarity of their role/goals, and issue resolution
- Establishes self as a trustworthy and approachable partner who listens and builds confidence in the team, and has an open minded approach to feedback to identify improved ways of working together
- Maintain st