Sanitation Superintendent

High Liner Foods; Portsmouth (NH); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

High Liner Foods is seeking a Sanitation Supervisor to manage the facility sanitation program and lead a team of 20–25 hourly associates. You will ensure safety, quality and regulatory compliance, and oversee pest control and chemical suppliers.

The role collaborates with QA and facility leadership to maintain audit readiness. Responsibilities include budgeting, scheduling, and guiding Kaizen-like improvements in sanitation, safety and food quality across the third shift.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in food safety and sanitation in a food environment.
• Strong knowledge of food sanitation requirements and QA processes.
• Experience enforcing quality and food safety expectations in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the sanitation program and budget, ensuring safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
• Lead a team of 20–25 hourly associates on sanitation tasks and shift operations.
• Maintain audit readiness and coordinate with QA and leadership.
• Oversee pest control and chemical supplier relationships; manage cleaning chemicals and equipment.

Skills

Critical thinking

English communication

Quality and food safety

Reliability and decisiveness

Conflict resolution

Education

Bachelor’s degree or above preferred

HACCP & 3rd party audit certified

Job description

The Sanitation Supervisor will manage assigned processes and personnel to meet or exceed company and departmental goals. This position will also oversee the efficient sanitation and cleaning functions of the manufacturing facility. This position will also be the primary contact for pest control and chemical representatives.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Management of all aspects of the facility sanitation program to include maintenance and compliance with the master sanitation schedule, ensuring tasks are executed without compromising safety, food safety and quality as well as internal and external regulatory requirements.
• In alignment with the QA Manager and other facility leadership assures the facility is audit ready every day.
• Management of our chemical supplier relationship and budget.
• Identify and action deficiencies through Corrective Action Reports. Participate in Root Cause Analysis for effective solutions.
• Responsible for the requisition and inventory of all cleaning chemicals, cleaning tools and supplies and maintaining all cleaning equipment in good repair
• Assigns tasks to workers including setting up their crews in the most effective and efficient way, meeting release for pre-op deadlines, as well as, moving and setting up equipment for startup.

Communication:

• Communicate clearly (both verbally and electronically) with Scheduling, Quality Assurance, Dry Storage, and Warehouse ensuring the plant floor is released timely to the Quality Assurance Department; to perform Pre-Op testing to position them to release the line to operations timely.
• Plans and schedules team members cleaning schedules, releases the entire production floor timely and to effectively and efficiently utilize departmental policies and procedures fairly and equitably to maintain standards established for safety, quality, and overall companypersonnel satisfaction.

Leadership and Direction:

• Assigns and oversees the sanitation cleaning schedule to include planned and unplanned work by assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
• Ensures compliance to annual budget objectives with regards to department expenses, employee standard work and overtime.
• Leads a group of 20-25 hourly associates and directs their workloads daily in order to achieve results and meet or exceed KPI’s
• Leads the entire sanitation operation on the 3rd shift and may serve as the primary contact in the absence of other leadership overseeing other areas of the plant.
• Ensures team members have access to and completes required company training including safety, food safety and quality. Additionally, supports all team members in the development and proper implementation of job specific training and knowledge transfer.
• Responsible for developing the proper attitudes towards safety and health in those they supervise, and for promoting that all operations are performed with the utmost regard for safety and health of all employees.
• Drive continuous improvement in the areas of food safety, sanitation, and quality; Including but not limited to, leading, or directing kaizen projects and ensuring sustainability of the improvements
• Develops and recommends improvements of facilities, equipment, cleaning procedures, pest control issues, chemical concerns, or procedures to improve safety, quality, and efficiency when issues and problems arise.
• Supports team members and recommends solutions to immediate challenges or problems that may arise during the course of the night.

Analysis:

• In partnership with their supervisor, establish and/or align on sanitation specific KPIs. Ensure records and reporting demonstrate performance to these standards.
• Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the sanitation process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
• Provides recommendation by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing sanitation, pest control and chemical performance records and data. Organizes and leads continuous improvement projects based on this data analysis.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years working in food safety and sanitation in a food environmentBachelor’s degree or above preferred, but not required
• HACCP & 3rd party audit certified
• Strong critical thinking skills.
• Reliability, decisiveness, good judgment, assertiveness, flexibility, persistence, and patience
• Knowledge of food sanitation requirements
• Well-developed and demonstrated English-language communications (both written and verbal), interpersonal, and decision-making abilities
• Ability to communicate and enforce quality and food safety expectations in a collaborative and effective manner.
• Ability to manage and resolve conflict in a positive way
• Ability to flex schedule to support the business.

Health, Safety & Wellness

At High Liner Foods, we believe strongly in the safety and wellness of our employees. Our organization has a number of policies, programs and practices that focus on safety, wellness, health and sustainability of the overall organization. Company employees, including temporary/agency and contract workers, are required to provide proof of their full COVID-19 vaccination status if their role requires business travel by a means requiring vaccination (including, but not limited to, international air travel and/or domestic air and rail travel within Canada) per regional laws/regulations. Employees will be considered fully vaccinated if they have received the required number of doses of a vaccine which has been approved by the health authority of the country in which they work.

Recruitment Process

Our process is meaningful but efficient! We want to get to know you and show you what our world is like.

Applicants who demonstrate potential will be contacteddirectlyfor a preliminary phone interview. Successful applications from this stage will participate in abehavioral-based interview withthe hiring leader.

All hires are conditional upon the successful completion of references, background checks and applicable drug testing.

High Liner Foods (USA), Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Aff irmative Action Employer committed to diversity & inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or marital status, genetic information or other protected status, covered by federal, state or local law.

Accommodations for Applicants with Disabilities. High Liner Foods (USA), Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact [e-mail] for assistance.

Current employees please note: this position is referral bonus eligible! See our policy for more details.

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