Sanitation Supervisor (3rd Shift)

Family owned and operated, Bake'n Joy Foods, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of top-quality bakery products that began over eighty years ago in 1941. We manufacture a variety of products for professional bakers including frozen scoop batters, predeposited muffin, cornbread, loaf cakes and Boston Coffee Cakes, mixes as well as an expanding line of fully baked items such as coffee cakes, loaf cakes and more. We remain committed to providing top quality products, service, and value to our customers.

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Sanitation Supervisor

North Andover, MA

Shift: 3rd Shift / Overnight
Employment Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Sanitation Manager

Position Summary

The Sanitation Supervisor - 3rd Shift is responsible for leading overnight sanitation activities in a high-volume bakery manufacturing environment. This role ensures that 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 position provides hands-on leadership to sanitation team members and coordinates closely with Production, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams to ensure the facility is ready for safe and efficient startup each day.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct leadership 3rd shift sanitation associates, including sanitation leads and temporary or contract sanitation support.
• Assign duties to sanitation associates taking into consideration task difficulty, associate experience, and work balance and fairness
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and support to sanitation associates in completing assigned tasks.
• Ensure timely and effective completion of daily, weekly, monthly, and periodic tasks on the Master Sanitation Schedule.
• Verify proper cleaning and sanitation of bakery production equipment, 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 prior to 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 to support 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.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; associate degree or technical training in food science, sanitation, operations, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 2-3 years of sanitation, food manufacturing, or production leadership experience, preferably in a bakery, ready-to-eat, frozen, snack, or other large-scale food manufacturing environment.
• 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 complete sanitation documentation accurately.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a food manufacturing environment with exposure to bakery ingredients, flour dust, cleaning chemicals, wet floors, heat, cold, noise, and moving equipment.
• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, climb, reach, and work on production floors for extended periods during overnight hours.
• Must be able to lift, push, pull, or carry up to 50 pounds as needed.
• Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment, 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.

Success Measures

• Production areas released on time and ready for startup.
• Sanitation tasks completed as scheduled and documented accurately.
• Strong pre-operational inspection results and reduced repeat findings.
• Effective employee training, accountability, and shift communication.
• Safe execution of sanitation work with consistent use of PPE and chemical controls.
• Positive audit, customer, regulatory, and environmental monitoring outcomes.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Bake'n Joy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.