Sanitation Leader - Biscuit Manufacturing

Sanitation Leader - Biscuit Manufacturing

Apply locations: Scarborough, Canada

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 11 Days Ago

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

In this leadership role, you are an internal technical master at the line level who ensures the line team is performing at a level that sustains and improves business results on one or more of 6 stars model. You model priority setting, manage the plan-do-check-adjust cycle, and provide coaching and training for your team.

How you will contribute

You are a key ingredient in helping us change how the world snacks. You will operate and maintain equipment to build technical mastery and to deliver on safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability, and morale targets, understanding losses in your area and taking the appropriate action to eliminate them. You will use autonomous and progressive maintenance standards to maintain equipment and support new product development. In this role, you will ensure that safety processes are observed (e.g., safety maps, lock out tag out (LOTO), behavior observation system (BOS), and root-cause analysis (RCA)), that quality assurance activities are performed to ensure zero harm and 100 percent good-quality products, and that resources are properly allocated and available during the shift. You will take the lead for shutdown maintenance, root-cause analysis, stops reductions loss analysis, and breakdown elimination.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance (PM) Step 3 systems
• Maintaining equipment at basic conditions independently, including the execution of AM & PM (break-down maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
• Total productive maintenance and Six Sigma including qualification of AM steps 5-6, and PM step 3
• Leading line teams
• Handling challenging interpersonal situations tactfully
• Influencing people in a union environment
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and good attention to detail

More about this role

Under the direction of the Quality Manager:

• Lead the sanitation team (including 2 team captains and over 10 sanitarians)
• Work in a safe manner and be aware of potential safety hazards in the department and workplace
• Must be able to prioritize work for maximum time effectiveness and efficiency, handle a number of situations at one time
• Understand, execute, and ensure compliance with Mondelez Quality Policies for sanitation, pest control, hygienic design, utilities, and GMP
• Develop, maintain, and monitor the site Master Sanitation Schedule on a routine basis, ensuring adherence to sanitation requirements
• Participate and review both internal and external audits performed at the facility focusing on sanitation and pest control programs
• Proactively prevent pest incidents at the site
• Routinely interact with other site counterparts to review policies and ensure best practices are established and followed
• Address issues related to sanitation, pest control, and environmental monitoring incidents in a timely manner to ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken.
• Must be able to function as part of a team, and work closely with Operations/ Maintenance/ Scheduling to effectively troubleshoot potential issues in a professional manner
• Develop productivity strategies that effectively lower controllable costs of sanitation labor and operating supplies
• Must have the capability and initiative to perform duties without direct supervision.
• Perform other duties as required as assigned by the Quality Manager

What you will bring

• Adaptable - must handle multiple situations at one time and be able to prioritize
• Communicates effectively with all positions orally and in writing
• Exhibit technical ability
• Takes initiative
• Continuous improvement mindset (IL6S experience)
• Is able to understand production/quality interface to prevent quality problems
• Perform duties without direct supervision
• Be detail-oriented
• Computer experience required (i.e., MS Office, SAP)

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Minimum 2-3 years previous experience in the food industry

Education / Certifications:

• BSc Degree in Food Science or other technical field or equivalent years of related experience.

Travel requirements:

• Very limited travel around the GTA

Work schedule:

• Monday-Friday - Flexible shifts. Team works midnight shift, candidate must adjust hours to start work early 2-3 days per week to interact with the team (~6am)
• Off shift work may be necessary due to special projects or business demands.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie, and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second, or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers, and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term 'accommodation' in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

Regular Manufacturing core Manufacturing