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Kerry Global Director of Sanitation in Beloit, Wisconsin
About Kerry
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.
About the role
The Hygiene & Sanitation Director will support sites in the implementation and troubleshooting of hygiene best
practice and initiatives. This role will develop effective relationships to enable wet and dry sanitation technical
support and Food Safety risk reduction. In addition to assisting operations with targeted improvements, this position
will provide hygiene practices gap assessments and support corrective action to enable compliance to Kerry
Central policy, corporate hygienic design and safety EHS standards and customer requirements. There will be a minimal of 40% travel for this position.
Key responsibilities
Drive Food Safety risk reduction by providing technical support and guidance to manufacturing sites to
develop world-class validated sanitation systems with verification of critical factors.
Deploy and oversee the implementation of EHS Policies.
Create relationships with Global manufacturing business units and manufacturing sites to integrate robust
hygiene practices into plant operations. Use these relationships to provide learning and transfer of industry
best practices and innovation for wet and dry cleaning, microbiological and allergen control within all zones
of the plant environment.
Develop sanitation training and deliver Global Sanitation and Hygienic design standards for Food Safety
courses.
Provide advice and consultancy to facilities for stored product pest management and facility pest control.
Lead risk based gap prioritisation and support corrective action to enable compliance to Kerry Global
policy.
Support the delivery of Kerry sustainability targets (Water and Carbon) through cleaning optimisation,
design efficiency and observation within facility sanitation audits.
Support proposed capital projects for compliance to corporate hygienic design, food safety and EHS
standards.
Qualifications and skills
Required Education: BSc in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology or
related disciplines.
Minimum of 10 years of Hygiene & Food Safety leadership in a Global Quality role.
Technical knowledge and hands on experience with soil identification/chemical selection, dry clean
methods, COP, CIP, Pest control, allergen management, stored pest management, developing SOPs,
master schedules and verifications with ATP, allergen & microbiological indicators.
Experience in the monitoring and control of environmental pathogens and allergens.
Leadership for compliance of GMP and other regulatory requirements in a manufacturing role.
Demonstrated knowledge of process appropriate hygienic design and sanitation systems design; ability to
provide guidance at a regional level in large and small-scale CAPEX projects.
Quality Systems / pre-requisite program development and execution experience.
Auditing and team corrective action process experience.
Experience with development of prerequisite programs, HACCP, Hazard analysis, risk assessments with
teams.
Investigation techniques to identify cause for reduced shelf life or pathogen risk.
Experience incorporating health, safety and environmental requirements while developing sanitation
systems.
Leadership experience with HACCP, Hazard analysis and risk assessments with teams
Experience dealing with Food service customers an advantage.