Sanitation Manager

Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will lead the Sanitation Department at our Darien, WI frozen food packaging facility. You will provide leadership for all sanitation operations, food safety compliance activities, pest management programs, environmental monitoring initiatives, and sanitation team development. You will oversee a team of 30 employees while partnering with operations, maintenance, engineering, quality, and external service providers to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant plant operations.

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

• Lead sanitation operations, ensuring compliance with company sanitation procedures, food safety standards, and regulatory requirements.

• Supervise and develop a team of 30+ sanitation employees, providing direction, training, resource planning, and technical leadership.

• Partner with operations, quality, maintenance, engineering, and external service providers to drive sanitation performance, continuous improvement, and business objectives.

• Manage sanitation, environmental monitoring, and pest management programs, including trend analysis, effectiveness evaluations, and corrective action implementation.

• Lead investigations involving contamination risks, environmental findings, reduced shelf life, customer complaints, or other sanitation-related issues, utilizing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.

• Develop, implement, and maintain cost-effective sanitation programs, procedures, and best practices while monitoring key performance indicators and reporting results to leadership.

• Serve as the technical expert for sanitary design by reviewing equipment installations, modifications, capital projects, and new product introductions to ensure compliance with food safety and sanitation requirements.

• Validate cleaning methods, sanitation plans, and verification procedures for new equipment, facility modifications, and operational changes.

• Conduct internal sanitation and pest management audits and support regulatory inspections and external audits.

• Serve as the site resource for pest management programs, facility repairs, and good manufacturing practices that support effective pest prevention.

• Foster a culture of safety by ensuring sanitation personnel receive appropriate training and follow established safety practices.

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience.

• Minimum of 5 years of food manufacturing experience in sanitation leadership roles.

• Understanding of microbiological organisms and their impact on process design, sanitary design, sanitation programs, and product safety.

• Knowledge of sanitary design, sanitation systems, environmental monitoring, pest management, food manufacturing processes, and food safety principles.

• Knowledge of Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point requirements, and other food processing regulations.

• Strong leadership, communication, relationship-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Experience using performance metrics, project management, trend analysis, and data-driven problem solving to improve sanitation and food safety outcomes.

• Bilingual English and Spanish language skills are preferred.

• Be available to provide on-call support as needed, including responding to operational issues, emergencies, or business needs outside of regularly scheduled working hours.

Physical Requirements

More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites, the physical requirements below may apply:
You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs/ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination. You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size. This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.

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Compensation

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