Sanitation Manager - Berkeley Culinary Center

Sanitation Manager – Lead with Integrity in Food Service!

The Sanitation Manager plans, directs, and coordinates sanitation programs throughout the food manufacturing facility. This position leads sanitary operations across both morning and night shifts, with the support of a Sanitation Supervisor assigned to each shift. The Sanitation Manager is responsible for ensuring effective cleaning and sanitation of production areas, equipment, utensils, and supporting areas in accordance with company food safety requirements, regulatory standards, customer requirements, and applicable GFSI standards. The role ensures that sanitation programs support product safety, quality, legality, and operational readiness while promoting a strong food safety culture and continuous improvement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

Sanitation Program Management

• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve the facility sanitation program, including Master Sanitation Schedules, SSOPs, cleaning procedures, chemical controls, sanitation verification, and sanitation-related preventive controls.
• Direct sanitation activities for both morning and night shifts, ensuring adequate staffing, effective shift-to-shift communication, completion of scheduled sanitation activities, and timely resolution of sanitation deficiencies.
• Establish clear expectations and accountability for sanitation supervisors and sanitation team members, including cleaning methods, equipment disassembly, chemical use, personal hygiene, GMPs, and safe work practices.

Sanitation Verification & Food Safety

• Oversee pre-operational inspections, sanitation verification, ATP testing, microbiological monitoring, environmental monitoring activities, and other verification activities used to confirm sanitary conditions.
• Partner with FSQA, Production, Maintenance, and Operations to investigate sanitation failures, environmental monitoring findings, recurring deficiencies, and equipment or facility conditions that may affect product safety.
• Ensure sanitation activities support compliance with FDA, FSMA, SQF/GFSI, customer standards, GMPs, HACCP/Preventive Controls, SSOPs, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, train, and evaluate two Sanitation Supervisors and the sanitation workforce, establishing consistent expectations across morning and night shifts.
• Build a strong sanitation and food safety culture through employee engagement, training, accountability, recognition, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Plan sanitation staffing and resources based on production schedules, operational needs, sanitation requirements, and changing production volumes.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain accurate sanitation records, including sanitation schedules, SSOPs, pre-operational inspections, verification results, chemical usage records, corrective actions, training records, and sanitation performance documentation.
• Review sanitation reports and shift documentation to identify trends, recurring deficiencies, missed tasks, verification failures, and opportunities for corrective and preventive action.
• Develop and report sanitation department KPIs and performance trends to FSQA and site leadership, including sanitation completion, verification results, environmental monitoring trends, corrective actions, staffing, and other department indicators.

At Whitsons our mission is Enhancing Life One Meal at a Time™.

Salary starting at $75,000 based on experience