Sanitation Supervisor

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Full Time Deli Brands of America, Baltimore, MD, US

4 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $65,000.00 To $75,000.00 Annually

Department: Operations – Technical Services
Reports To: Sanitation Manager
Direct Reports: Internal Sanitation Employees and assigned sanitation personnel

The Sanitation Supervisor – Deep Cleaning is responsible for supervising, coordinating, and verifying sanitation and deep-cleaning activities to ensure the facility meets company, food safety, USDA/FSIS, regulatory / BRC, and customer requirements.

The Sanitation Supervisor must demonstrate the ability to independently plan, schedule, execute, and verify sanitation and deep-cleaning activities while coordinating effectively with department managers to ensure operational continuity, food safety compliance, audit readiness, and accurate recordkeeping.

• Supervise and participate in daily sanitation and scheduled deep-cleaning activities.
• Ensure equipment, production areas, floors, drains, overhead structures, and food-contact/non-food-contact surfaces are properly cleaned and sanitized.
• Develop and maintain cleaning schedules based on production requirements, risk, and established frequencies.
• Verify cleaning effectiveness through visual inspections, ATP testing, and other approved methods.
• Identify sanitation deficiencies, harborage areas, and recurring issues and ensure corrective actions are completed.

• Ensure compliance with HACCP, GMPs, SSOPs, USDA/FSIS requirements, and company food safety programs
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• Maintain working knowledge of BRCGS and other GFSI-recognized audit schemes
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• Maintain the facility in a constant state of audit readiness
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• Support environmental monitoring, sanitation verification, and corrective action programs.
• Immediately elevate conditions that may affect food safety or product quality.

• Plan and schedule sanitation and deep-cleaning activities to minimize production disruption.
• Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Quality/Food Safety, and other department managers regarding equipment access, downtime, repairs, and sanitation requirements.
• Ensure sanitation work is completed within established time frames.
• Communicate schedule changes, delays, equipment issues, and food safety concerns to the appropriate managers.

• Ensure sanitation records are accurate, complete, timely, and properly maintained
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• Review sanitation logs, inspection records, ATP results, chemical concentrations, deep-cleaning records, and corrective actions.
• Ensure sanitation deviations are properly documented and followed through to completion.
• Maintain records required for USDA, BRCGS, customer, internal, and regulatory audits.

• Supervise, assign, train, coach, and evaluate sanitation employees.
• Ensure employees follow SSOPs, GMPs, food safety, chemical safety, PPE, and LOTO requirements.
• Hold employees accountable for sanitation quality, safety, attendance, and performance.
• Develop employees and support future leadership development.

• Enforce OSHA and company safety requirements.
• Ensure proper chemical handling, storage, labeling, concentration and titration.
• Verify proper use of PPE and sanitation equipment.
• Report unsafe conditions, damaged equipment, accidents, and near misses.
• Investigate recurring sanitation deficiencies and assist with root-cause analysis.
• Support corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Identify opportunities to improve cleaning effectiveness, employee performance, sanitation efficiency, and food safety.
• Participate in USDA/FSIS, BRCGS, customer, and internal audits.

• High school diploma or GED required; technical or food safety training preferred.
• 3–5 years of sanitation experience in a food…