Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 3 days ago

Sanitation Manager

Land O'Lakes, Inc.181 open roles

Where
Tulare, CA (USA)
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowSanitation ManagerLand O'Lakes, Inc. · Tulare, CA (USA)

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

8.5% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Land O'Lakes, Inc. postings stay open a median of 25 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.8%1 day
  2. 4.0%3 days
  3. 8.5%7 days
  4. 15.4%14 days
  5. 34.1%30 days
This job: posted 3 days ago

Land O'Lakes, Inc. median: 25 days open

The posting

Sanitation Manager

The Sanitation Compliance Manager is a plant management role responsible for the strategic direction, execution, and continuous improvement of all sanitation and hygienic design programs within the Tulare manufacturing facility. This role ensures compliance with PMO (Grade “A”), CDFA, FDA, USDA, OSHA, GMPs, and HACCP requirements while driving a proactive sanitation and food safety culture.

The incumbent holds end-to-end accountability for sanitation performance to include: environmental monitoring, CIP systems, third-party services, and sanitation compliance site-wide. The role partners closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance leadership to ensure the production of safe, and high-quality food products that meet/exceed customer and regulatory requirements. Additional responsibilities as assigned due to business needs.

Scope

  • Leads plant-wide sanitation strategy for a 24/7 dairy operation
  • Direct ownership of sanitation team (Sanitation supervisor and QA Sanitation operations team of six)
  • Influences cross-functional teams including Operations, Maintenance, Engineering and Quality
  • Accountable for environmental pathogen control and sanitation-driven KPIs
  • Manages sanitation budget, chemical optimization, and vendor performance
  • Key contributor to ensure site readiness for regulatory inspections and customer audits

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Sanitation Leadership

  • Collaborate with site Sr. QA Manager, local leaders, and corporate partners to define/execute the facility’s sanitation strategy in alignment with plant and organization food safety objectives.
  • Establish, sustain, and continuously improve sanitation SOPs, SSOPs, and hygienic design standards.
  • Drive a preventive, risk-based sanitation culture focused on eliminating contamination risks
  • Collaborate with operational teams on sanitation SOP’s, environmental monitoring, MSS, and food safety program support.
  • Lead sanitation performance through KPIs, data analytics, and continuous improvement initiatives

Food Safety & Risk Management

  • Become site SME on environmental monitoring program (EMP) including trending, risk zoning, and pathogen control (e.g., Listeria and Salmonella)
  • Lead root cause investigations and CAPA for microbiological, chemical and physical hazards to ensure food safety compliance.
  • Ensure integration of sanitation programs with HACCP and food safety Preventive Controls
  • Act as primary sanitation lead during food safety incidents and crisis response

CIP Systems & Hygienic Design

  • Provide technical leadership for CIP validation, verification, and optimization
  • Ensure effective cleaning of complex dairy systems (tanks, HTST systems, evaporators, spray dryers, pipelines)
  • Collaborate with corporate Sanitation and other cross-functional teams on equipment design, installation, and sanitary improvements
  • Optimize chemical usage, water consumption, and cycle times while maintaining efficiency

Team Leadership & Development

  • Develop and integrate a Food Safety Sanitation and Quality culture through collaboration with site leadership.
  • Coach team members while developing a multi-skilled team capable of supporting plant needs
  • Drive engagement, accountability, and a strong safety culture sitewide.
  • Ensure effective onboarding and ongoing training in sanitation, GMPs, and chemical safety

Vendor & Resource Management

  • Provide oversight of third-party vendors, including chemical suppliers, pest control, and sanitation service providers.
  • Thorough review of service reports and timely execution of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) for all identified findings.
  • Evaluate vendor performance and leverage their technical expertise to achieve plant sanitation goals.
  • Manage sanitation budget while identifying cost-savings initiatives and driving Sanitation/Food Safety performance.

Compliance & Audit Leadership

  • Lead plant readiness and response for regulatory inspections (FDA, USDA, CDFA) and customer audits
  • Ensure sanitation documentation, validation records, and various training logs are within compliance standards
  • Conduct internal audits and drive corrective actions to closure
  • Act as backup to Quality leadership as needed

Required Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred in Food Science, Engineering, Chemistry or related field with 5+ years of people leadership experience in a 24/7 food/dairy manufacturing processing or equivalent food plant experience.
  • High School Diploma with 10 plus years of people leadership experience in a 24/7 food/dairy manufacturing processing or equivalent food plant experience OR
  • Strong experience in dairy processing (fluid milk, butter, milk powder, UF and other dairy products)

Required Technical Expertise:

  • Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures
  • CIP systems and validation
  • Environmental monitoring and pathogen control
  • Dairy microbiology (SPC, coliforms, pathogens)
  • Sanitation chemistry (alkaline, acid, sanitizers)

Preferred Technical Expertise:

  • PMO (Grade “A” dairy requirements)
  • Sanitary and hygienic design principles

Required Leadership Competencies:

  • Strategic thinking with strong execution capability
  • Proven ability to lead teams in a 24/7 manufacturing environment
  • Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills under pressure
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Data-driven mindset with focus on continuous improvement

Work Environment

  • 24/7 dairy manufacturing facility requiring on-call support
  • Exposure to wet, cold, and variable processing environments
  • Flexibility required for off-hours, weekends, and emergency response

Salary Range: $93,360 - $140,040 . In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.

Neither Land O’Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.

Land O'Lakes does not use Automated Decision-Making Technology, as defined by California law, to substantially replace human decision-making or make significant decisions about applications for employment or contracting opportunities.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.