Senior Supervisor: Hygiene

**POSITION**:Senior Supervisor: Hygiene

**LOCATION**: Pretoria Far East, Gauteng

**EE**:Open to all

**Reporting to**:Operations Executive

**Job Purpose**
Implement and maintain a food safe, hygienically clean and sanitary environment within the company factories and abattoirs.

Focus on promoting a safe and hygienic workplace preventing contamination,

while optimizing resources by driving a culture shift and minimizing wastes and defects of cleaning and related activities

(startup delays, unplanned downtime, product defects, machine damages, consumable wastes, etc.).

**Output**:
**Cleaning and Sanitation**

**1.1** **Implementation of Cleaning Procedures**
- Oversee the Cleaning Management System at the relevant factories and abattoirs.
- Implement effective cleaning procedures.
- Maintain the hygiene standards within the manufacturing plants and support structures facilities.
- Ensure that cleaning schedules are established to ensure cleaning on all levels of detail.
- Oversee the correct hand-over of the plants between the cleaning teams and the production teams.
- Continually improve effectiveness and efficiencies of the implemented cleaning programs.
- Establish monitoring systems and inspections to assess the team's performance.
- Investigate and address any incidents or non-compliance issues promptly.
- **Collaboration with Other Departments**:

- Collaborate with other departments, such as production and maintenance, to coordinate cleaning activities with daily operations.
- Communicate effectively with the team and other departments to maintain a clean and safe working environment.
- Drive a culture shift towards clean-as-you-go and the importance of correct cleaning procedures within the whole company.
- **Training and Supervision**:

- Provide training to the cleaning team(s), operators, supervisors, maintenance technicians and others on the correct cleaning techniques, product usage, and adherence to the protocols and procedures.
- Supervise and lead the cleaning team to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and to the required standards.
- Continual optimization of cleaning efficiency - doing more with less.

**1.5 Hygiene Audits and Inspections**
- Ensure that all factories and abattoirs are always audit ready, including the available and effective management of the relevant records as required.
- Participate during audits and inspections of the manufacturing facilities and abattoirs to identify areas requiring attention and to ensure compliance with hygiene standards.
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors and colleagues to address any hygiene-related concerns.
- **Sanitation Products and Equipment Maintenance**:

- Oversee the correct maintenance of cleaning equipment.
- Ensure the use of the appropriate cleaning agents for the different areas and equipment types.
- Manage chemical storerooms and sculleries.
- Stock management.
- **Emergency Response Planning**:

- Develop and implement emergency response plans for cleaning-related incidents, such as spills or contamination events.
- Ensure the cleaning team is well-trained and equipped to respond to emergencies promptly.
- **Vendor and Inventory Management**:

- Manage relationships with cleaning product vendors, ensuring the availability of quality supplies.
- Maintain inventory levels and order cleaning supplies as needed.
- **Documentation and Record Keeping**:

- Keep accurate records of cleaning activities, inspections, and training sessions.
- Oversee archiving & retrieval of records as and when required.
- Prepare reports for senior management.
- **Continuous Improvement**:

- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in cleaning processes and practices.
- Implement best practices and stay informed about new cleaning technologies and methodologies.
- **Staff Hygiene and Laundries**
- **Operation of laundries**:

- Oversee the operation of the laundries in line with all policies and procedures.
- Ensure all PPE adherence to the requirements.
- Oversee stock levels.
- Ensure adequate record keeping and liaison with relevant parties.
- Optimize efficiency and compliance.
- Minimize wastes and losses (excess inventory, delayed startup, misuse of consumable stock etc.)
- Budget adherence.
- **Chemicals**
- **Chemical stores & data sheets**:

- Adhering to company and legal requirements, in addition to client Policies / Guides / Standards.
- Helping to ensure chemicals safety data sheets for all hygiene chemicals used on site are maintained, updated regularly and are accessible to all staff.
- Ensuring all Chemical records are maintained and up-to-date and that all paperwork is correctly completed.
- Oversee Chemical stores.
- Ensuring the micro-sampling management plan is adhered to (Listeria & Hygiene indicator Swabbing including ATP & Allergen) and corrective action is taken and/or investigations are carried out for any out of limits micro results.
- Budget adherence.
- **Internal Relationships**
- Drive an Eng