Supervisor - Sanitation

Acme, 30 Gem Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

The Supervisor – Sanitation oversees all facility sanitation activities, ensuring processes effectively prevent cross-contamination from allergens, pathogens, and foreign materials. This role supports sanitation validation and verification, while ensuring compliance with food safety regulations and company standards.

The Supervisor leads the sanitation team, coordinates daily and deep-clean schedules, and partners closely with FSQA and Manufacturing to maintain a safe, clean, and audit-ready facility. This role is critical to supporting product quality, preventing contamination, and fostering a strong food safety culture across the organization.

• Oversee and execute sanitation operations:
  Plan, assign, and manage daily, weekly, and special sanitation activities—including deep cleans, seasonal shutdowns, and urgent tasks—ensuring all production and facility areas meet regulatory and internal standards, while maintaining the master sanitation schedule and verifying completion.
• Ensure safe, compliant, and efficient practices:
  Collaborate with Manufacturing, FSQA, and external partners (e.g., Pest Control) to optimize cleaning efficiency, minimize downtime, and ensure proper handling, storage, and usage of cleaning chemicals in compliance with SDS and regulatory requirements.
• Team Management & Training
  • Lead and develop the sanitation team:
    Conduct daily shift huddles, coach and train associates, monitor performance, manage attendance and corrective actions, and ensure completion of all required training, reinforcing adherence to SOPs, safety protocols, and sanitation standards.
  • Promote safety, compliance, and operational excellence:
    Ensure proper use of PPE, foster a strong team environment with accountability and high safety awareness, and review, create, or update Standard Operating Procedures and training materials to maintain consistent, compliant performance.
• Food Safety & Environmental Monitoring
  • Support food safety and environmental monitoring:
    Partner with FSQA on swabbing, trend tracking, and escalations, and implement enhanced sanitation responses for Zone 1 and Zone 2 positives.
  • Drive corrective actions and process validation:
    Conduct root-cause analysis for sanitation-related deviations, implement corrective and preventive actions, and support verification and validation of sanitation chemicals and techniques.
• Pest Control Support & Facility Hygiene
  • Support and enforce pest prevention:
    Maintain strong sanitation practices, perform routine inspections, promptly address sanitation deficiencies, and ensure exterior housekeeping and waste areas deter pests, minimizing attractants and access points.
  • Collaborate on pest management and corrective actions:
    Partner with FSQA, Pest Control, Maintenance, and Manufacturing to monitor pest activity, report sightings, maintain pest control devices, and participate in root cause investigations and preventive measures to mitigate risk.
• Conduct and verify sanitation operations:
  Perform pre- and post-operational inspections, monitor completion of sanitation logs and chemical checks, and utilize in-person and video-based audits to ensure adherence to SOPs, GMPs, allergen control, and environmental hygiene, keeping the facility audit-ready at all times.
• Drive continuous improvement and compliance:
  Document audit findings, issue and follow up on corrective actions, and communicate results and improvement opportunities to management to support ongoing sanitation effectiveness and regulatory compliance.
• Evaluate sanitation efficiency and introduce improvements to reduce downtime and increase throughput.
• Manage sanitation resources and equipment:
  Maintain adequate inventory of cleaning supplies, tools, PPE, and chemicals, ensure sanitation equipment is in proper working condition, and coordinate with Maintenance to address mechanical issues.
• Collaborate and optimize chemical usage:
  Partner with chemical suppliers and FSQA for updates, training, and usage optimization, while supporting other sanitation-related duties as assigned.

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