Sanitation And Hygiene Manager-Timaru

Position Title: Sanitation and Hygiene Manager-Timaru

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Timaru

Requisition ID: 34520

About the role.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

In this newly created position, the Sanitation & Hygiene Manager will play a pivotal role in the effective delivery of high hygiene standards by championing, coaching, and improving food safety culture across our Timaru site. This role will also be responsible for managing and developing the Sanitation team, while collaborating cross-functionally to ensure legislative requirements are met, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are being upheld, and customer expectations are exceeded.

Accountabilities:

• Incident investigation and corrective action requirements
• Identify root cause of micro issues related to sanitation, improve Environmental monitoring results to reduce sanitation deviation
• In collaboration with the Quality Lead, Shift Managers and the Training Coordinator, ensures each team member undergoes comprehensive sanitation and hygiene training so that staff can safely, competently, and confidently undertake cleaning and sanitation activies across the site
• Implement the Master Sanitation Schedule to meet the plant's needs while complying with customer and McCain food safety standards
• Plan and manage the execution of all Sanitation and cleaning activities on the Sanitation and Maintenance day
• Conduct compliance audits and inspections of internal hygiene standards and documentation
• Ensure hygiene validation and verification activities are documented and adhere to cleaning schedules
• Ensure completion of pest prevention actions to required standards

About you.

Skills:

• Experience leading sanitation and hygiene teams - bringing out the best in the team through coaching, development, and recognition
• Broad cross-functional knowledge, including operations, quality assurance, technical aspects, and engineering
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to derive insights
• Ability to navigate ambiguous and complex situations effectively
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Sound understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Proficiency in implementing change management strategies and principles
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work well and influence others effectively
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Experience/understanding of microbiology is an advantage

About McCain.

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to pizzas, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Leadership Principles.

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

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  We have got this covered! No external recruitment support is required at this time and any unsolicited CV's will not be reviewed.

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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

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Job Family: Quality & Food Safety
Division: ANZ
Department: Timaru Quality
Location(s): NZ - New Zealand : Canterbury : Timaru || NZ - New Zealand : Other : Reference job description

Company: McCain Foods (NZ) Limited