Sanitation & Changeover Program Manager

Job Summary:

The Sanitation & Changeover Program Manager is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and training of sanitation and changeover programs to ensure consistent execution of production equipment and facility activities throughout the creative werks facility. This role regularly interacts with other Operational functions of the business and Supply Chain to ensure that tasks are completed in a timely manner, with minimal disruption to asset availability.

Responsibilities of the Position:

• Own the development, standardization, documentation, and training of all sanitation and changeover programs, including MSS, SSOPs, and standard work to ensure consistent execution.
• Drive continuous improvement of sanitation and changeover performance through time studies, KPI tracking, data analysis (Pareto), and facilitation of Lean events (Kaizen, SMED).
• Leads and facilitates Kaizen events, including 5-S, SMED, and 1st Pass ATP
• Leads and owns new equipment and asset implementation with sanitation and changeover focus in partnership with engineering, quality, production and maintenance
• Ensure the effective utilization of labor and other resources to maximize efficiency and productivity or the sanitation function delivering the proper cost models to cw.
• Owner for end-to-end changeover program (disassembly, sanitation, reassembly, setup) in partnership with Production, Quality and Maintenance departments
• Ensure sanitation compliance through routine inspections, GMP monitoring, audit program development, and participation in internal and external audits.
• Own sanitation KPIs and action plans within Daily Management Systems (DMS).
• Assists in developing and maintenance of Sanitation budgets
• Responsible for management of sanitation vendors such as chemical and cleaning equipment suppliers
• Effectively supervise, mentor, and coach (12) employees on sanitation best practices
• Investigate and lead root cause analysis on Sanitation incidents (i.e. Safety violations, environmental issues, etc.), implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Manage inventory of spare parts and tooling in CMMS (M+)
• Improves employee morale within their team and the sanitation program
• Model the Company’s values of passion, resilience, performance, creativity, accuracy, balance, collaboration, flexibility, and innovation.
• Perform other duties and improvement projects as assigned by Management.