Sanitation Manager

The Sanitation Manager will be working at one of our larger bakeries in the bakeries platform. The plant is 350k sq. ft. and operates 8 highly automated production lines.

This facility produces cookies for multiple customers, including the Girl Scouts, Kroger, Walmart, and others.

Scope:

The Sanitation Manager provides overall people leadership for teams up to 31 hourly sanitation employees and 2 salaried Supervisors.

This strategic leader develops and executes the sanitation program by providing technical support and overseeing the cleaning and sanitization of equipment, surfaces, and plant environment.

The role leads and engages the team towards compliance with GMPs, Safety, WHMIS, HACCP, and corporate standards associated with the sanitation process.

Key Accountabilities:

• Elevates the bakery sanitation program to ensure a gold standard of cleanliness across the facility exceeding industry standards.
• Oversees the development and execution of the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) through scheduling labor to clean and sanitize equipment, surfaces, and plant environment according to Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs).
• Ensures proper chemical utilization and handling to optimize cleaning chemistry, application methods, and safe practices.
• Participates in capital projects planning, new equipment installations, and new product lines by providing sanitation recommendations and expertise.
• Audits sanitation-related activities, reports non-compliances, and takes corrective actions to assure compliance to all quality assurance food safety requirements.
• Measures and analyzes sanitation performance metrics and participates in weekly meetings to review findings and assign investigation and corrective action responsibilities.
• Leads or partners with QA on a Pest control program for identifying and eliminating pests.
• Promotes the company's health and safety program, maintains a safe working environment, and ensures continued compliance with Occupational Health and Safety Act and JHSC recommendations.
• Ensures compliance with Environmental and waste water standards.
• Responsible for team member adherence to lock-out/tag-out of equipment prior to and during the cleaning process.
• Establishes a strong culture of Food Safety among team members, ensuring education on compliance, legal requirements, and food safety standards, policies, and protocols.
• Mitigates visual, microbiological, and chemical contamination through equipment and facility sanitation to ensure product quality.
• Owns budgeting and delivers annual cost targets through careful tracking of labor resourcing, chemical, and supply usage.
• Optimizes supply of chemical and material spend in alignment with corporate preferred supplier programs.
• Cross-references vendor invoices with inventory to ensure billing accuracy.
• Tracks cleaning window efficiency to attain and exceed budgeted targets.
• Schedules weekly manpower requirements based on projected volumes and historical records.
• Monitors planned volume to actual and adjusts labor needs to support volume.
• Enables team members to reach out for clarity of their role/goals, issue resolution, and decisions.

Competencies & Requirements:

• 3 years of sanitation hourly and salary leadership experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• 5 years of wet and dry sanitation experience.
• Knowledge of the sanitation process, cleaning chemistry, chemical storage, handling, and dispensing systems, and sanitary design principles.
• Continuous improvement mind-set, passionate about sanitation, and understands its importance to safety and quality of manufactured food products.
• Knowledge of HACCP/FSMA, food industry GMPs, BRC or SQF standards, WHMIS, First Aid, Food Safety, Basic Food Microbiology, Lock Out and Tag Out, and local Occupational Health & Safety regulations.
• Proven leadership skills with ability to coach people and develop high-performing teams with ability to drive performance and hold people accountable.
• Ability to create team environment by sharing knowledge, involving employees in developing solutions, and providing guidance, direction, feedback, and recognition to the team.
• Courage to challenge status quo, lead and embrace changes and decisions that drive progress.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficient in computer skills (Excel, Word, Outlook), previous experience with SAP and Ceridian Dayforce an asset.
• Post-secondary education, College or University degree in Science preferred, and high school diploma or GED required.
• Able to work in cold, hot, humid, or wet manufacturing environment conditions, work with chemicals, and stand/walk regularly.