Sanitation Supervisor (3rd Shift)

Bake n Joy Foods Inc • North Andover, MA

10d • $75,000 - $85,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Sanitation Supervisor – 3rd Shift leads overnight sanitation activities in a high-volume bakery manufacturing environment. The role ensures equipment, production areas, utensils, floors, drains, and supporting facility areas are cleaned and sanitized in accordance with company standards, regulatory requirements, food safety programs, allergen controls, and customer expectations. The supervisor provides hands-on leadership to sanitation team members and coordinates with Production, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams to prepare the facility for safe and efficient daily startup.

Work takes place in a food manufacturing environment with exposure to bakery ingredients, flour dust, cleaning chemicals, wet floors, heat, cold, noise, and moving equipment. The position requires extended periods standing, walking, bending, climbing, and reaching on production floors during overnight hours. The supervisor must be able to lift, push, pull, or carry up to 50 pounds and wear required personal protective equipment. Weekend, holiday, overtime, and schedule-adjustment flexibility is required according to production and sanitation needs.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 2–3 years of sanitation, food manufacturing, or production leadership experience; preferably in bakery, ready-to-eat, frozen, snack, or other large-scale food manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP or preventive controls, allergen management, environmental monitoring, and food safety audit expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead hourly employees in an overnight manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read, write, and accurately complete sanitation documentation.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, organizational, and follow-up skills.
• Basic computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Office and electronic production, sanitation, maintenance, or quality systems.
• Ability to work independently, make sound decisions under time constraints, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, climb, reach, and work on production floors for extended periods during overnight hours.
• Ability to lift, push, pull, or carry up to 50 pounds as needed.
• Ability to wear required PPE, including safety shoes, gloves, eye protection, hearing protection, hair covering, beard covering where applicable, and chemical PPE.
• Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, overtime, and schedule adjustments based on production and sanitation needs.

Nice To Haves

• Associate degree or technical training in food science, sanitation, operations, or a related field.
• Previous supervisory experience in bakery sanitation or sanitation of flour-based, allergen-containing, or ready-to-eat food production areas.
• Experience with GFSI-benchmarked food safety systems such as SQF, BRCGS, or FSSC 22000.
• Knowledge of dry sanitation practices, flour dust control, compressed air controls, hygienic zoning, and environmental pathogen prevention.
• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.
• Certification or training in HACCP, OSHA safety topics, chemical handling, or food plant sanitation.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct leadership to 3rd shift sanitation associates, including sanitation leads and temporary or contract sanitation support.
• Assign duties based on task difficulty, associate experience, and balanced and fair workload distribution.
• Coach, mentor, and support sanitation associates in completing assigned tasks.
• Ensure timely completion of daily, weekly, monthly, and periodic tasks on the Master Sanitation Schedule.
• Verify cleaning and sanitation of bakery production equipment and areas, including mixers, depositors, ovens, conveyors, slicers, cooling systems, ingredient handling areas, and packaging equipment.
• Conduct and document pre-operational inspections, sanitation verification activities, and corrective actions before production startup.
• Support allergen changeovers, dry-cleaning practices, wet sanitation, environmental sanitation, and clean-in-place or clean-out-of-place activities where applicable.
• Monitor the safe and effective use, storage, labeling, concentration, and inventory of sanitation chemicals.
• Train employees on sanitation standard operating procedures, chemical safety, PPE requirements, Good Manufacturing Practices, food safety, and allergen control procedures.
• Identify sanitation, maintenance, equipment, or facility issues and communicate them to appropriate departments for corrective action.
• Partner with Quality Assurance on environmental monitoring, ATP or microbial swabbing, customer audits, regulatory inspections, and internal audits.
• Drive continuous improvement in sanitation effectiveness, labor efficiency, chemical usage, safety performance, and audit readiness.
• Maintain accurate sanitation records, inspection forms, chemical logs, corrective action documentation, training records, and shift handoff reports.
• Promote a safe, respectful, and accountable work environment while enforcing company policies and shift expectations.

Benefits

• Affordable, quality healthcare for associates and their families.
• Life insurance and disability benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Potential eligibility for a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results, in accordance with company policy.
• Comprehensive benefits and continuous learning opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED