Sanitation Manager - Night Shift
Abbotsford, BC$89k - $110kFull time - SalaryPosted 3mo ago
About the role
Sanitation Manager responsible for leading sanitation, cleaning, and wastewater treatment operations to ensure food safety, quality, regulatory, and customer requirements. Reports to Plant Manager; provides strategic direction and operational leadership for sanitation programs, personnel, and third-party providers.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, direction, coaching, and performance management to the sanitation team; develop staffing plans, schedules, and training programs; lead recruitment, onboarding, evaluations, and disciplinary processes; communicate objectives and metrics; promote engagement and continuous improvement.
- Develop, implement, maintain, and improve sanitation programs, procedures, and standards to ensure compliance with food safety, quality, regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
- Monitor sanitation effectiveness through inspections, environmental monitoring, pre-operational inspections, and trend analysis; lead root cause investigations and corrective actions; maintain Master Sanitation Schedules and SSOPs.
- Manage third-party sanitation service providers and contractors; establish performance metrics and conduct reviews; manage supplier relationships for sanitation-related goods and services; optimize performance and costs.
- Support HACCP, CFIA, customer standards, GMPs, WHMIS; lead responses during audits; develop corrective and preventive actions; support crisis management and recall readiness.
- Develop and manage department budgets for labor, chemicals, supplies, equipment, and contracted services; monitor costs and optimize resource utilization; participate in capital planning.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Production, Maintenance, QA, Supply Chain, and Health & Safety; coordinate activities to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency.
- Oversee wastewater treatment operations; monitor environmental metrics; support sustainability initiatives and waste reduction.
- Drive continuous improvement; establish KPIs; prepare departmental reports; stay current on sanitation technologies and industry best practices.
Qualifications
- - Minimum 7-10 years progressive sanitation/food manufacturing/operations leadership experience.
- - Minimum 5 years of management experience leading sanitation teams in a food processing environment.
- - Experience managing third-party sanitation contractors and conducting audits (regulatory, customer, third-party).
- - Relevant certifications in HACCP, Food Safety, Sanitation Management, or related fields (strong asset).
Skills
Required:Leadership and people managementSanitation program managementRegulatory compliance & auditsBudgeting & cost managementCross-functional collaborationEnvironmental monitoring and wastewater management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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