Sanitation Manager: Food Safety & Compliance Lead

Canteen North America; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Canteen North America is seeking a Sanitation Manager for Fresh & Ready Food Group to lead the facility's sanitation program, ensuring product safety and regulatory compliance. The role oversees environmental monitoring, chemical management, and audits, with leadership over sanitation staff and cross-functional coordination.

You will drive sanitation standards, training, and KPIs while partnering with Quality, Maintenance, and Engineering to optimize equipment design and hygiene practices in a

Qualifications

• 7+ years of sanitation and/or food manufacturing experience, including leadership responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of Ready-to-Eat food manufacturing, microbiological controls, environmental monitoring, sanitation chemistry, and pathogen prevention.
• Expertise in SSOPs, GMPs, HACCP, sanitation verification, ATP/allergen/protein testing, and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the Master Sanitation Program.
• Establish sanitation standards, SSOPs, cleaning frequencies, verification requirements, and accountability measures.
• Manage and develop sanitation supervisors, leads, technicians, and associates.
• Partner with Quality and Food Safety to oversee environmental monitoring and pathogen-control programs.
• Analyze sanitation and microbiological trends; drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead investigations involving environmental positives, ATP failures, and sanitation-related issues.
• Ensure effective hygienic zoning, sanitation controls, and chemical management programs.
• Partner with Maintenance and Engineering to improve hygienic equipment design and eliminate harborage risks.
• Review facility and equipment changes for sanitation and food safety impacts.
• Lead sanitation-related activities during USDA, GFSI, customer, and third-party audits.
• Develop training programs and KPIs related to sanitation effectiveness, labor efficiency, environmental results, and compliance.
• Manage sanitation budgets, staffing, succession planning, and overall department performance.

Skills

Leadership

Sanitation programs

Environmental monitoring

HACCP

Audits

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Canteen North America is seeking a Sanitation Manager for Fresh & Ready Food Group to lead the facility's sanitation program, ensuring product safety and regulatory compliance. The role oversees environmental monitoring, chemical management, and audits, with leadership over sanitation staff and cross-functional coordination.

You will drive sanitation standards, training, and KPIs while partnering with Quality, Maintenance, and Engineering to optimize equipment design and hygiene practices in a