Sanitation Site Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all sanitation operations for an assigned facility, including staffing, execution, verification, and shift performance.
• Ensure sanitation procedures are completed to Fayette standards, customer expectations, and all food safety and regulatory requirements.
• Manage frontline supervisors, leads, and hourly team members to maintain accountability for attendance, performance, safety, and quality.
• Monitor labor hours, overtime, productivity, chemical usage, and supply consumption to meet site financial targets.
• Conduct routine inspections, pre-op reviews, corrective action follow-up, and documentation verification.
• Partner with and provide routine, documented communication with customer plant leadership, QA, and operations teams to address sanitation issues, schedule changes, and improvement opportunities.
• Investigate deficiencies, food safety concerns, injuries, and operational issues, and implement timely corrective actions.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, coaching, and retention of site employees.
• Maintain accurate reporting for staffing, payroll inputs, safety incidents, quality events, and operational performance.
• Reinforce Fayette’s culture of safety, urgency, ownership, and service.

• High school diploma required; associate’s or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 3+ years of leadership experience in sanitation, food manufacturing, janitorial, or related industrial operations.
• Experience managing hourly labor in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong understanding of sanitation practices, food safety standards, GMPs, SSOPs, and plant safety expectations.
• Ability to lead teams across multiple shifts and respond to changing production demands.
• Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with basic reporting systems, email, spreadsheets, and operational documentation.

• Food plant sanitation leadership experience.
• Experience working in USDA, FDA, or RTE environments.
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred where applicable.
• Experience with labor planning, audits, and customer-facing operations.

• Sanitation quality and pre-op pass rates
• Labor performance versus budget
• Safety performance and incident reduction
• Attendance and turnover trends
• Customer satisfaction and responsiveness
• Completion of documentation, training, and corrective actions