Food Safety and Sanitation Manager

AppleOne Employment Services; Oxnard (CA); Vor Ort; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

AppleOne Employment Services seeks a Bilingual Sanitation Supervisor in Oxnard, CA to lead the sanitation team, ensure food safety compliance, and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced production environment.

You will supervise daily cleaning, train staff in PPE, LOTO, and sanitation procedures, coordinate schedules, document sanitation activities, and work with QA to maintain audit-ready conditions.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 5 years of sanitation, food manufacturing, or related industry experience.
• Bilingual Spanish
• Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills.

Aufgaben

• Lead, coordinate, and assign daily sanitation activities to ensure equipment, production areas, utensils, and facility surfaces are cleaned.
• Ensure compliance with sanitation procedures, including chemical handling, equipment washdown, manual cleaning, floor and wall cleaning, overhead cleaning, and debris removal.
• Verify production equipment is properly cleaned, reassembled, and prepared for safe startup.
• Plan and prioritize sanitation schedules to meet deadlines while maintaining food safety and employee safety standards.
• Provide daily supervision, coaching, and support to sanitation staff.
• Conduct routine inspections to verify cleaning effectiveness and ensure corrective actions are completed before production begins.
• Maintain audit-ready conditions through regular facility and equipment inspections.
• Identify and communicate sanitation, food safety, equipment, and workplace safety concerns.
• Train employees on sanitation procedures, PPE requirements, chemical safety, LOTO, and other safety practices.
• Ensure compliance with LOTO procedures and safe equipment servicing practices.
• Monitor proper storage, labeling, handling, and usage of sanitation chemicals.
• Maintain sanitation documentation, including schedules, logs, and records.
• Support sanitation verification activities, inspections, audits, and corrective action programs.
• Investigate and report sanitation issues, safety incidents, hazards, and food safety concerns.
• Reinforce company policies and workplace safety requirements.
• Provide feedback regarding employee performance, productivity, attendance, and training needs.
• Promote accountability, teamwork, professionalism, and effective communication within the department.
• Identify opportunities to improve sanitation processes, productivity, safety, and operational efficiency.
• Support ongoing compliance with food safety, quality, regulatory, and Cal/OSHA requirements.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Kenntnisse

Bilingual Spanish

Strong organizational skills

Recordkeeping

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Jobbeschreibung

The Bilingual Sanitation Supervisor is responsible for leading and coordinating the sanitation team to ensure compliance with food safety, sanitation, employee safety, and regulatory requirements. This role oversees daily sanitation operations, employee training, inspection activities, and continuous improvement efforts to maintain a clean, safe, and audit-ready production environment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate, and assign daily sanitation activities to ensure equipment, production areas, utensils, and facility surfaces are properly cleaned and sanitized.
• Ensure compliance with sanitation procedures, including chemical handling, equipment washdown, manual cleaning, floor and wall cleaning, overhead cleaning, and debris removal.
• Verify production equipment is properly cleaned, reassembled, and prepared for safe startup.
• Plan and prioritize sanitation schedules to meet operational deadlines while maintaining food safety and employee safety standards.
• Provide daily supervision, coaching, and support to sanitation staff.
• Conduct routine inspections to verify cleaning effectiveness and ensure corrective actions are completed before production begins.
• Maintain audit-ready conditions through regular facility and equipment inspections.
• Identify and communicate sanitation, food safety, equipment, and workplace safety concerns.
• Train employees on sanitation procedures, PPE requirements, chemical safety, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), and other safety practices.
• Ensure compliance with LOTO procedures and safe equipment servicing practices.
• Monitor proper storage, labeling, handling, and usage of sanitation chemicals.
• Maintain sanitation documentation, including sanitation schedules, logs, food safety records, and inventory records.
• Support sanitation verification activities, inspections, audits, quality checks, and corrective action programs.
• Investigate and report sanitation issues, safety incidents, hazards, and food safety concerns.
• Reinforce company policies, food safety standards, sanitation procedures, and workplace safety requirements.
• Provide feedback regarding employee performance, productivity, attendance, and training needs.
• Promote accountability, teamwork, professionalism, and effective communication within the department.
• Identify opportunities to improve sanitation processes, productivity, safety, and operational efficiency.
• Support ongoing compliance with food safety, food quality, regulatory, and Cal/OSHA requirements.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Ability to understand production equipment and computerized machine controls.
• Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills.

Problem Solving & Leadership

• Ability to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Minimum 5 years of sanitation, food manufacturing, or related industry experience.
• Bilingual Spanish.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

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We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, including, if applicable, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.