Hygiene Lead

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 Site Hygiene Lead is responsible for implementing Sanitation standard practice, ensuring compliance with all Kerry’s key customers, approved codes of practice and Kerry policies and procedures.

This role is responsible for implementing Sanitation and continuous improvement initiatives at manufacturing plant and drive food safety risk reduction program in alignment with Regional Sanitation Team.

Work Location Plentong

Reporting to Quality System Manager

Key responsibilities

• Site Hygiene Lead will be involved in deploying Kerry Sanitation Standards at manufacturing site in liaison with the Regional Sanitation Team. The role will also be responsible for implementing those standards within site in conjunction with site cross functional team
• Create relationships with cross-functional team integrate robust hygiene practices into plant operations
• Provide standard insight to facilities for stored product pest management and facility pest control
• Develop sanitation training program and execute at site
• Develop and validate SSOPs and deploy at process lines
• Conduct facility sanitation assessment assist with risk-based gap prioritization and support corrective action to enable compliance to Kerry Global Standard
• Develop Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) for the manufacturing facility and train cross-functional teams
• Deploying sanitation policies and culture at site to achieve “Stay Safe, Stay Clean” agenda
• Assess site for compliance to corporate hygienic design, food safety and HSE standards
• Conduct Microbiological and Allergen Cleaning & Sanitation Validations for Manual cleaning methods, Clean In Place (CIP), Assisted Cleaning Systems (ACS), Clean Out of Place immersion Tanks (COP tanks) and other automated cleaning mechanisms
• Report sanitation KPI’s and implement plans to meet Sanitation and Food Safety targets
• Prepares reports, presentations, operational documents, and other communications containing descriptive, analytical, and evaluative content related to sanitation activities subject to review and editing by higher-level staff members
  
  

Qualifications and skills

• A Qualified Degree in Food Science/Food Technology/Food Engineering/Microbiology or related disciplines
• Minimum of 2-3 years of Sanitation & Food Safety experience in an Operations Quality role
• Experience with prerequisite programs, HACCP, Hazard analysis, risk assessments with teams
• An ability to communicate with cross functional teams and implement sanitation systems
  
  

Competencies Required

• Excellent interpersonal communication, relationship management
• Understand, interpret, and apply policies and procedures
• Learn and effectively utilized specialized knowledge to improve sanitation practices at site
• A change agent. Energized by making a difference and comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Results focus, service delivery mindset
• Must be effective in cross-functional working
• Gather pertinent facts and data, make thorough analyses, and arrive at sound conclusions