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[ilovebacon]

I work at a further-processor of meats. We have an in-house sanitation team consisting of a day crew and a night crew who cleans the entire plant for pre-op.

 

All the day crew employees are my direct reports, and the nighttime sanitation manager is my direct report. I find that this takes a lot of my time. Is it typical for the QA manager to have direct reports from sanitation in addition to the QA team?

 

Thank you!

[Ryan M.]

Typical?  Depends.  Certainly not extraordinary.  Unless you can influence your superior to hire a daytime sanitation manager...  Good luck with that though.

[SQFconsultant]

I agree with Ryan and will add that what I see in my travels is (depending on size of organization) is there is many times a day sanitation manager and night supervisor or an overlap sanitation manager - but still most report to QA.  I have seen some report to operations, but dotted line or additional report to QA.  

[ilovebacon]

Thanks, guys. It helps to know what’s going on at other plants so I’m not always wondering if I should bring this up to someone as a possible org chart improvement. In a perfect world, I’d love for there to just be a dotted line like there is for all other processing departments/department heads, but we all know it’s not a perfect world. I do think we’re approaching a size that could make it appropriate to have a daytime sanitation manager, but we’re kind of hovering at that line. Thanks for all your help!