Sanitation Manager – Night Shift; Food Production

The Job Squad Solutions Team is currently looking for a Sanitation Manager – Night Shift (Food Production) to work at a food company located in the Buckner, KY area!

Job Title:

Sanitation Manager – Night Shift (Food Production)

Job Location :
Buckner, KY 30010 Salary: $100,000-$110,000 base

Schedule:

2:00AM-10:00AM - Monday–Friday

Summary:

The Sanitation Manager provides strategic leadership for all sanitation operations across the facility, ensuring processing and packaging equipment and facilities consistently meet company, customer, regulatory, and food safety requirements. This role is responsible for managing, coaching, and developing the sanitation team, ensuring production readiness through effective sanitation practices, driving continuous improvement initiatives, optimizing labor and operating costs, and maintaining compliance through successful internal and external audits.

The Sanitation Manager will be supervising a team of 30 (27 sanitation employees, 2 leads, and 1 supervisor).

Lead, coach, develop, and manage the Sanitation team to ensure a safe, engaged, and high-performing workforce. Direct all sanitation activities to ensure equipment and facilities meet company, customer, regulatory, and food safety requirements. Plan, prioritize, and allocate labor, equipment, and resources to support production schedules and sanitation objectives. Develop, implement, and continuously improve sanitation programs, procedures, and standards across the facility.

Monitor sanitation performance through key metrics (including SE, PEM, and MSS), identify trends, perform gap analyses, and implement corrective and preventive actions. Investigate sanitation-related issues, determine root causes, and partner with cross-functional teams to implement sustainable solutions. Partner with Quality Assurance to validate sanitation effectiveness, evaluate environmental monitoring results, and ensure continuous compliance. Lead and support internal, customer, SQF/BRC, FDA, and other regulatory audits, ensuring audit readiness and timely resolution of findings.

Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and R&D to support new equipment installations, product commercialization, and sanitary design initiatives. Manage the sanitation operating budget, inventory, and procurement of sanitation supplies. Develop and deliver sanitation-related training to ensure compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements. Perform all other duties as assigned.

Must wear all required personal protection equipment associated with specific manufacturing work environment and job duties as stated in the Employee Handbook, posted policies, or as assigned by leadership personnel. Maintain clean and safe working environment and follow all safety policies and procedures, such as lock out/tag out, safe lifting techniques, and all others as instructed. Inform Management of any food safety or quality issues or of any processes which become noncompliant with specified requirements.

Food Safety:
Notify supervision of any repairs or adjustments that are required. Understand, observe, and comply with the handling and usage of the color-coded container policy while in the Production Areas. Perform all duties necessary to meet Company, Customer and/or Government requirements/standards as prioritized by the Company. Ability to initiate action to prevent the occurrence of nonconformities relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the product, processes, quality system, or safety system.

Identify and record any problems relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the ingredients, processes, quality system, or…