Sanitation Supervisor
Listed on 2025-12-19
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Manufacturing / Production
Occupational Health & Safety, Quality Engineering, Operations Engineer, Operations Manager
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Job DescriptionAre you ready to make it happen at Mondelēz International? As part of the site Quality Team, you will lead sanitation crew members during your shift to ensure the facility is cleaned safely, effectively, and in full compliance with SSOPs, GMPs, allergen control, Zoning, and IPM requirements. You will guide the crew, reinforce safe and effective cleaning practices, and elevate risks that could impact food safety or startup reliability.
In this role you collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, and Quality to resolve sanitation challenges, support improvement activities, and help build a culture of cleanliness, discipline, and safety while delivering top‑quality products.
- Lead sanitation crew to complete cleaning tasks accurately and on time, ensuring documentation and pre‑op readiness.
- Perform sanitation verification checks (ATP, visual, allergen checks, documentation).
- Ensure correct SSOP execution and appropriate use of chemicals, tools, and cleaning methods.
- Partner with Operations, Quality, and Maintenance to resolve sanitation access issues and in‑shift barriers.
- Escalate sanitation, allergen, FM, or pest‑contributing conditions to management immediately.
- Model safe work practices and ensure adherence to PPE, chemical handling, and LOTO requirements.
- Support GMP walkthroughs, environmental swabbing, and clean‑equipment swab programs.
- Identify and correct pest‑contributing conditions such as debris, residues, water pooling, or structural gaps.
- Provide daily direction, expectations, and performance coaching to sanitation crew members.
- Train team members on sanitation techniques, hygiene behaviors, and safe work rules.
- Support onboarding and skill development for new sanitation employees.
- Build a positive, accountable, and productive team environment.
- Ensure sanitation tasks are completed in full to enable production start‑up.
- React promptly to sanitation issues impacting equipment readiness or production schedules.
- Identify recurring sanitation challenges and support improvement activities led by the Manager or Process Engineer.
- Analytical and computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Ability to lead and coach hourly crew members.
- Knowledge of sanitation procedures, chemicals, SSOPs, GMP, and IPM basics.
- Strong safety mindset and ability to make decisions in a fast‑paced environment.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Associate’s degree or technical certification in Food Science, Quality, or related field preferred.
- Training in chemical safety, sanitation procedures, GMPs, and IPM highly preferred.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in sanitation or production leadership required.
- Strong working knowledge of sanitation practices, SSOPs, GMPs, chemical handling, and safe work procedures.
- Experience supervising or leading hourly teams preferred.
- Experience performing sanitation verification (Swabs, Visual inspection).
- Strong communication and ability to collaborate across shifts and functions.
- Ability to work off‑shifts, weekends, and during sanitation‑intensive windows.
- M-F 1st shift
No relocation support available, however for candidates voluntarily moving, some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy.
Business Unit SummaryThe United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. We produce our well‑loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and Chips Ahoy!
cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products—are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All…
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