Title: Manager Food Safety and Sanitation

               

Location: Delhi, LA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Provides leadership, establishment of Lamb Weston procedures and management of Food Protection and Safety. Functions as the key Lamb Weston Delhi plant leader in implementing a food protection strategy and compliance for overall improvement through specific goals and objectives set for food safety, and sanitation. Collaborates with Production, Maintenance, QA and all other functions at the plant to build sustainable food defense strategies.

Job Description

Position Responsibilities:

• Leads corrective actions and follow-up.
• Leads foreign material review.
• Leads GMP compliance and review.
• Manages and directs the Team Leader Sanitation and maintains focus on Continuous Improvement
• Responsible for Sanitation Effectiveness and Environmental Monitoring Programs results and corrective actions
• Lead product micro review and release.
• Leads OPP review
• Responsible for HACCP compliance.
• Responsible for Food Defense.
• Responsible for pest control.
• Responsible for equipment inspections and documentation of sanitation activity.  For example; belt inspections.
• Leads continuous improvement projects to build sustainable systems to protect food.
• Ensures seamless exchange of technical and product information between plant-level departments.
• Performs food safety engineering review of sanitary design documentation for compliance with stated requirement
• Communicates with Corporate on all issues concerning Food Safety.

• Maintains knowledge of industry trends and developments.

Position Requirements:

• BS in Food Science or related field preferred.  
• Minimum 7 years of food industrial experience in Production and/or in Quality Assurance,
• PCQI, internal auditing, FSVP, and GFSI training are highly desired.
• Excellent report writing, interpersonal, and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Demonstrated management experience with direct reports.
• Knowledge of food safety including FSMA, food manufacturing processes, technologies or other relevant areas of responsibility.
• Exceptional understanding of food safety.
• Knowledge in using a full range of statistical and analytical tools and fundamentals.
• Exceptional relationship skills to achieve strong partnership and collaboration, both internally and externally.

Physical Demands:  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

  

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms and climb stairs/ladders within the plant environment. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.  

  

Work Environment:  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

  

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.  May occasionally work around fumes or airborne particles, chemicals, and vibration. Occasionally exposed to humid conditions as well as moderate heat.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Position Requirements:

• BS in Food Science or related field preferred.  
• Minimum 7 years of food industrial experience in Production and/or in Quality Assurance,
• PCQI, internal auditing, FSVP, and GFSI training are highly desired.
• Excellent report writing, interpersonal, and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Demonstrated management experience with direct reports.
• Knowledge of food safety including FSMA, food manufacturing processes, technologies or other relevant areas of responsibility.
• Exceptional understanding of food safety.
• Knowledge in using a full range of statistical and analytical tools and fundamentals.
• Exceptional relationship skills to achieve strong partnership and collaboration, both internally and externally.

Physical Demands:  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

  

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms and climb stairs/ladders within the plant environment. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.  

  

Work Environment:  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

  

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.  May occasionally work around fumes or airborne particles, chemicals, and vibration. Occasionally exposed to humid conditions as well as moderate heat.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

               

Job Requisition ID: Req-255663

               

Time Type: Full time

               

Anticipated Close Date: 11/11/2024

               

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate’s work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $88,890.00 - $133,340.00

               

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law