Job Overview:
Reporting to the Plant QA Manager, this role oversees execution of the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), less‑than‑daily cleaning, chemical safety, sanitation documentation, and regulatory compliance. The Superintendent is responsible for developing a high‑performing sanitation team, maintaining a strong partnership with the chemical provider, and ensuring the facility is audit‑ready every day while upholding the highest standards of employee safety, food safety, and quality. The Sanitation Superintendent leads all third‑shift sanitation operations within the food manufacturing facility, ensuring the plant is cleaned, sanitized, and released to Pre‑Op on time, consistently, and to established standards.
This position is for the 3rd Shift. Typically 2am to 10am OR 3am to 11am.
Essential Duties and responsibilities
- Lead, coach, train, and develop a team of 20–25 hourly sanitation associates, assigning priorities and ensuring completion of required safety, food safety, quality, and sanitation training.
- Manage the third-shift sanitation program, ensuring compliance with the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), food safety standards, regulatory requirements, internal policies, and audit-readiness expectations.
- Oversee daily, weekly, and periodic cleaning activities to ensure timely pre-operational release, product integrity, sanitation KPI achievement, and employee safety.
- Promote a strong safety culture, with particular focus on safe chemical handling, storage, dispensing, PPE usage, and sanitation work practices.
- Manage sanitation chemicals, tools, PPE, supplies, and equipment, including proper chemical concentrations, titration, documentation, inventory control, and equipment readiness.
- Serve as the primary third-shift contact for sanitation and chemical supplier representatives, maintaining strong partnerships to support training, cost control, and program effectiveness.
- Partner cross-functionally with Maintenance, QA, Scheduling, Warehouse, and Dry Storage to resolve sanitation-related issues, support production startup, and maintain clear communication with plant leadership.
- Maintain accurate sanitation records, shift reports, and performance updates while identifying deficiencies, supporting CAPA and Root Cause Analysis, and driving continuous improvement through data analysis and process optimization.
Qualifications
- 3 to 5 years of supervisory experience in food manufacturing sanitation or food safety is required. Preference given to candidates with supervisory experience in a unionized environment.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
- HACCP certification and experience with third‑party audits strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of food sanitation requirements, chemical safety, and regulatory standards.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to motivate, train, and hold teams accountable.
- Excellent communication, critical thinking, and decision‑making abilities.
- Proven ability to manage conflict constructively and maintain positive working relationships.
- Ability to work third shift and flex schedule as needed to support business demands.
- Reliability, sound judgment, assertiveness, and the ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.
Current employees please note: this position is referral bonus eligible! See our policy for more details.
What's in it for you?
Join High Liner Foods for a career where you shape your path, backed by great benefits, and a culture of diversity, innovation, and sustainability. Immerse yourself in opportunities to make a real impact and grow with us in our mission to nourish lives. Start your adventure where endless possibilities to thrive together await.
- Competitive Salary
- Heath, dental & vision coverage
- Pay for performance incentives
- Employee & Family assistance programs
- Wellness Programs
- Retirement Planning
- Supplemental Parental Leaves
- Disability Support
- Volunteer hours
- Learning and mentorship opportunities
- Safety focused work environment
About High Liner Foods
Founded in 1899 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, High Liner Foods has grown from a small salt fish company into a leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood. Our trusted brands — including High Liner, Fisher Boy, Mirabel, Sea Cuisine, C.Wirthy & Co, Mrs. Paul’s, Van de Kamp’s, and Icelandic Seafood — are enjoyed by families, restaurants, and institutions across Canada and the United States.
Guided by our purpose of Reimagining Seafood to Nourish Life, we combine over a century of expertise with innovation, consumer insight, and responsible practices to deliver high-quality seafood people can trust.
At High Liner Foods, we are a people-first organization. We invest in our employees through development opportunities, collaborative teamwork, and a culture where safety, well-being, and growth are priorities. Whether in our offices, plants, or distribution teams, our people work together to deliver excellence and drive the future of seafood.
Our Values
Serve with Purpose – We put our customers and consumers at the heart of everything we do, creating quality products that help to nourish lives and foster connections that go beyond the plate.
Do the Right Thing – We lead with integrity, act responsibly, and make choices that support our people, our partners, and our planet. .
Innovate & Reimagine – We challenge the norm, embrace fresh ideas, and turn innovation into impact.
All Hands on Deck – Powered by people and driven by purpose, we lead with courage, hold one another accountable, and celebrate as a team
Ready to make waves with us? Join High Liner Foods and help shape the future of seafood.
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Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, sit, talk, listen, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to use hands to handle, operate, and feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to operate a motor vehicle to travel to off-site meetings. The employee must have sufficient visual acuity to operate a motor vehicle and digital camera, as well as other office and position equipment. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Employee must be able to hear and speak clearly to communicate with clients, coworkers, employees and vendors.
