The Sanitation Superintendent is accountable for strategic leadership, execution, and continuous improvement of facility‑wide sanitation programs, ensuring compliance with food safety, quality, regulatory, cost, delivery, safety, and training requirements. This role owns the development, implementation, evaluation, and optimization of sanitation systems and processes, proactively preventing product contamination while strengthening the partnership between Operations, Quality, Safety, and Sanitation functions.
Additionally, the Sanitation Superintendent provides strategic leadership and oversight for plant sanitation programs, ensuring sanitation activities are effectively planned, executed, and aligned with broader business, operational, safety, and quality objectives. This role manages complex schedules by establishing priorities, assigning resources, and maintaining frequent communication with staff and key stakeholders to ensure work is completed efficiently and on time. The Superintendent actively plans, coordinates, and provides direction across sanitation related programs, including quality assurance, food safety, employee relations, health and safety, operations, and maintenance, while maintaining a forward thinking perspective on the operational and business impacts of sanitation decisions. Through strong analytical thinking, sound judgment, and disciplined follow through, the role oversees the cleaning and sanitization of equipment, surfaces, utensils, and the plant environment, providing leadership, motivation, and technical support to teams. The Sanitation Superintendent models integrity, accountability, and a one team mindset, effectively giving and receiving feedback to develop leaders and strengthen team performance, while partnering with contractors, suppliers, and technical experts to troubleshoot issues, identify root causes of non conformities, and drive sustainable corrective actions that uphold safety and quality standards.
