Sanitation Manager

About Mowi

Mowi is the world's leading producer of sustainably farm-raised Atlantic salmon, dedicated to delivering premium seafood with a strong commitment to quality, innovation, and environmental responsibility. As a fully integrated global company, Mowi operates across the entire value chain, from feed production and farming to processing and distribution, ensuring full traceability and consistently high standards.

Headquartered in Bergen, Norway, Mowi employs approximately 12,500 people across 26 countries and is publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company is widely recognized as a global leader in sustainability and has been ranked among the most sustainable animal protein producers by the Coller FAIRR Index.

In the U.S., Mowi's operations include Ducktrap River of Maine in Belfast, ME, a flagship smoked seafood facility known for combining traditional smoking techniques with modern production practices. Ducktrap plays a key role in delivering high-quality, value-added products while supporting operational excellence and the local Maine community.

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Summary

The Sanitation Manager is responsible for leading sanitation, food safety, and facility hygiene programs within a fresh seafood processing facility. This role ensures compliance with FDA and USDA regulations, HACCP, GMPs, SSOPs, and applicable third-party food safety standards, while supporting overall product quality, food safety, and regulatory compliance objectives. The Sanitation Manager leads sanitation teams, owns sanitation programs and documentation, and works cross-functionally with Quality, Maintenance, Production, and Warehouse to maintain a hygienic, well-controlled, and audit-ready processing environment. The role also supports food safety verification activities, continuous improvement initiatives, and oversight of facility conditions and appearance to ensure the site remains inspection-ready and visit-ready at all times.

Responsibilities

Sanitation Program Management

• Develop, implement, and maintain SSOPs and Master Sanitation Schedules for all equipment, processing areas, and facility infrastructure.
• Standardize sanitation methods, materials, and procedures across facilities to ensure consistent food safety and quality outcomes.
• Ensure sanitation programs meet or exceed FDA, USDA, HACCP, customer, and third-party audit requirements.
• Verify sanitation effectiveness through inspections, environmental monitoring results, checklists, and visual verification.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of food safety and quality programs related to sanitation, allergen control, and preventive controls.

People & Shift Leadership

• Lead, train, and supervise sanitation supervisors, leads, and technicians.
• Ensure proper training on safe cleaning practices, chemical handling, lock-out/tag-out, scissors-lift usage, PPE usage, GMPs, and food safety protocols.
• Promote a strong food safety, quality, and safety culture across all shifts, including overnight sanitation.
• Coach teams on the importance of sanitation practices in preventing product contamination, quality defects, and regulatory non-compliance.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Partner with the Quality team on audits, inspections, environmental monitoring programs, investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate with Maintenance and Production to support sanitary design, effective cleanouts, operational efficiency, and minimized downtime.
• Investigate sanitation-related issues that could impact product safety, product quality, shelf life, customer satisfaction, or regulatory compliance.
• Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action processes for customer complaints, quality incidents, and food safety events where sanitation may be a contributing factor.
• Stay current on emerging sanitation technologies, food safety practices, and cleaning materials, and recommend improvements.

Facilities Upkeep & Contractor Oversight

• Own overall facility condition and appearance in coordination with Maintenance, ensuring the site remains food safe, audit-ready, and customer-visit ready at all times.
• Identify facility deficiencies that could impact sanitation, food safety, product quality, GMP compliance, or audit outcomes and drive timely corrective actions.
• Ensure contracted work complies with food safety, sanitation, GMP, and quality requirements, including pre-work controls and post-work verification.
• Coordinate repairs and facility improvements that enhance food safety, sanitation effectiveness, and operational performance.

Compliance & Documentation

• Maintain complete and accurate sanitation records for regulatory inspections, audits, customer reviews, and internal assessments.
• Support FDA, customer, and third-party audits (SQF, BAP, ASC/MSC, etc.) and ensure timely closure of findings.
• Track sanitation KPIs and report performance against company objectives.
• Review sanitation, environmental monitoring, and quality trend data to identify risks and drive continuous improvement.

Chemical & Resource Management

• Manage sanitation chemical programs, inventories, and supplier relationships.
• Ensure proper chemical labeling, storage, MSDS availability, and safe use.
• Validate chemical concentrations, application methods, and effectiveness to support food safety and quality objectives.
• Control sanitation labor, overtime, and supply costs while maintaining compliance and program effectiveness.

Sustainability

• Maintain quarterly sustainability data and ensure timely entry into corporate reporting systems.
• Lead or support sustainability-related projects as assigned.
• Identify trends and improvement opportunities through data analysis and performance reviews.
• Drive initiatives focused on water reduction, chemical optimization, waste reduction, and energy efficiency.

Qualification and Skills

• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong ability to collaborate across different departments and facilities.
• Able to interact professionally with regulatory authorities, auditors, customers and visitors.
• Problem-solver with a proactive, action oriented mindset.
• 5+ years combined experience in sanitation and/or quality, in a food manufacturing or seafood processing environment.
• Strong knowledge of GMPs, SSOPs, HACCP, FDA and USDA requirements.
• 3+ years in a supervisory or managerial sanitation and/or quality role.
• Experience leading sanitation and/or quality teams in fresh protein processing environments.
• Strong documentation, training, and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate vendors that will perform facility upkeep and cosmetic repairs.
• Preferred:
  • Seafood HACCP certification.
  • Experience with SQF, BAP, FDA, USDA and customer audits.
  • Bilingual English/Spanish.

Physical Requirements

• This role operates in a seafood processing environment, including cold and wet production areas as well as outdoors areas and dry warehouses which may be hot or cold.
• Overnight, weekend, and on-call support will be required to support sanitation schedules and audit readiness.
• Able to consistently meet deadlines under pressure.
• Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays as needed.
• Proper use of PPE and adherence to GMPs.

Education

• Degree in Food Science, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**All requirements and skills are considered to be essential, unless otherwise indicated**

**Mowi is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

The above job description is not an all-encompassing list of duties and responsibilities required of the employee for this job.

Duties and responsibilities may change without notice.

Mowi is a Drugfree Workplace.

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