Assistant Site Manager

Assistant Site Manager (Salaried)

We at Fortrex are looking for an Assistant Site Manager to oversee our sanitation operations. Your day‑to‑day will involve ensuring the facilities we clean meet the highest standards of cleanliness and safety. If you have a passion for maintaining excellence and driving operational efficiency, apply today to be a key player in our commitment to quality!

Join our dynamic team as an Assistant Site Manager in Sanitation, where you will ensure the facilities we clean meet the highest standards of cleanliness and safety. If you have a passion for maintaining excellence and driving operational efficiency, apply today to be a key player in our commitment to quality.

• Leader in food safety solutions for both contract sanitation and chemistry in the food processing industry.
• Over 10,000 dedicated team members across North America.
• Corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA with team members working in over 250 plants throughout North America.
• Over 50+ years of experience in creating long‑lasting partnerships.

• Protect What Matters:
  We are in service of safety at every step, ensuring the health of everyone is central to all we do – from plant team members to consumers.
• Deliver On Our Promises:
  We speak honestly and are dedicated to doing the right thing by upholding ethical standards and following through on our commitments to our teams, our customers, and our business.
• Win as a Team:
  We believe in the power of collaboration, uniting our diverse strengths while working hand‑in‑hand with our team members and customers to unlock potential and achieve stronger results together.
• Advance a Safer Future:
  We are committed to innovating more effective, sustainable, and cost‑efficient food safety solutions to develop a safer world for all.

The Assistant Site Manager supports the Site Manager in the daily supervision of the sanitation crew, which entails the daily management of operations. Job duties include:

• Monitor, measure, and report on operational issues and opportunities, and assist the Site Manager develop and implement improvement plans.
• Communicate with the Site Manager daily to report accidents, downtime, damage, and other important plant issues.
• Communicate with Corporate office as needed regarding items such as nightly logs, payroll, chemical and supply orders, timesheets, etc.
• Complete weekly internal safety audits on staff as well as equipment to ensure we are providing our team members with a safe work environment.
• Set, monitor, motivate, and track specific goals for the sanitation crew regarding working safe, clean, and on time.
• Manage and develop direct reporting staff, including interviewing, hiring, training, coaching, motivating, evaluating, setting and adjusting hours of work, handling team member complaints and grievances, disciplining team members, and planning and directing the work of team members.
• Ensure compliance with all internal company procedures and policies including Technical Services, Human Resources, Accounting, IT, and general customer service.
• Comply with procedures set forth in the team member handbook, safety handbook, cleaning procedure and Corporate Authorities manual.
• Assist Site Manager in implementation of our training programs including safety training and ERP.
• Coordinate responses to any governmental or customer deficiencies.
• Report and investigate all accidents.
• Monitor treatment of injured team members and assist worker’s compensation in providing restricted duty work.
• Serve as a liaison with customers.
• Attend sanitation meetings (e.g., production, USDA, audits, etc.) on behalf of the company with the customer.
• Communicate customer responsibilities required for sanitation of the facility (e.g., maintenance needs, water pressure/temperature, customer provided supplies, etc.).
• Submit corrective action procedures to customer when necessary to remedy issues.
• Follow‑up with customers to ensure that problems are resolved to their satisfaction.
• Act as liaison with regulatory agencies as needed.
• Supported by Human Resources, Payroll and Technical Services with any government agencies (e.g., OSHA, ICE, EEOC, NLRB, DOL, etc.)…