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- Escritório em Mississauga
Ready For a Tasty New Challenge?
Our facility in Mississauga, ON is looking for a Sanitation Supervisor to join our team!
Location: Mississauga, ON.
Shift: Flexibility required to work all shifts or various shifts
Salary Range: $70,000 - $75,000
What Wonderbrands Offers:
- Wonderbrands believe in Home Grown Talent and accelerated career growth
- Competitive Compensation, Health, and Dental Benefits
- Pension plan with matching contribution
- Bonuses
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - Restaurants, gyms, shopping, etc.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Sanitation Responsibilities
- Oversee daily sanitation activities across all production areas to ensure compliance with GMP, food safety, and company standards.
- Develop, implement, and update SSOPs (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures) and verify adherence.
- Schedule and supervise cleaning tasks, including deep cleaning of equipment, silos, proofers, drains, and high-care areas.
- Conduct pre-operational inspections to validate cleanliness and sanitation effectiveness before production starts.
- Monitor chemical usage, ensure proper dilution and safe handling, and track inventory to control cost and prevent shortages.
- Collaborate with QA and Maintenance to address sanitation-related non-conformances and corrective actions.
- Train and mentor sanitation team members on safe and effective cleaning practices.
- Maintain sanitation logs and records to support audit readiness (BRC, internal, customer).
- Coordinate with contractors for specialized sanitation (e.g., heat treatment, mold remediation).
- Identify and resolve sanitation-related issues proactively, including pest activity, allergen control, and cross-contamination risks
- Lead by example by demonstrating a strong work ethic, integrity, and commitment to food safety and sanitation standards.
- Provide clear direction and set performance expectations for sanitation team members.
- Develop and maintain a positive team environment that encourages collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify training needs and facilitate ongoing development and cross-training opportunities for sanitation staff.
- Conduct regular team meetings to review performance, communicate updates, and address concerns proactively.
- Recognize and reward individual and team achievements to boost morale and motivation.
- Handle conflict resolution professionally and foster open communication within the team.
- Track efficiencies to attain and exceed budget targets.
- Maintain cost effective weekly sanitation labour requirements based on projected volumes and historical records while tweaking requirements as needed.
- Provide strong coaching and leadership to develop sanitation team.
- Inspire, coach, develop and engage the team to work collaboratively; to create and drive a culture that motivates them to collectively achieve the business goals.
- Exercise corrective action where needed such as disciplinary action, if necessary.
- Maintain strong cross function relationships with the leadership team, corporate sanitation and food safety teams.
- Play an active role in internal, customer and annual audits.
- Support swabbing and QA activities as directed by the QA lead.
- Supports as a back-up to Production as required.All other duties as assigned:
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5 years of sanitation leadership in a food manufacturing environment.
- Post secondary education (College or University degree in Science preferred).
- Knowledge and experience about the sanitation process, cleaning chemistry, chemical storage, handling and dispensing systems and sanitary design principles.
- Continuous improvement mindset and passionate about sanitation and understands its importance to safety and quality of manufactured food products.
- Knowledge of HAACP/FSMA, GMP standards, WHMIS, First aid, Food safety, Basic Food Microbiology, Lock Out and Tag Out, and knowledge of the Occupational Health and safety act.
- Proficient in Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Strong, professional written and oral communications.
- Able to work in cold, hot, humid or wet manufacturing environment conditions, work with chemical and stand/walk regularly.
- Experience in creating and developing a strong team environment.
- Excels at providing proper guidance, direction, feedback and recognition to the team.
- Ability to lead and embrace changes as needed.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision making skills.
- Extremely well organized, results driven and pro-active in follow-up.
- Excellent multi-tasker that can handle pressure with ease.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to handle confidential matters including information.
- Ability to interact well in plant environments.
What is the recipe for a great career at Wonderbrands
Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.
Wonderbrands, now part of the FGF Brands Group of companies, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading-edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake. We are heavily focused on embracing an entrepreneurial drive and a highly collaborative start up culture with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.
In compliance with Ontario’s Bill 190, we confirm that this posting represents a current existing vacancy within our organization.
Disclaimer: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge and skills. Please keep in mind that other duties may be added or this description may be amended at any time.
