Sanitation Specialist - Day Shift

About the role

The Jack Link's Protein Snacks facility is seeking a Sanitation Worker to join our team. This position plays a crucial role in maintaining a clean and hygienic environment, ensuring that all equipment and surfaces are sanitized to meet high standards.

Responsibilities

• Clean facilities and equipment, in proper sequence, and in a timely manner enabling pre-op inspection and set-up to begin on time for a successful start-up and hour of power for production.
• Apply chemicals for cleaning, degreasing, and sanitizing using sprayers and hoses.
• Perform hot water wash downs and cold water wash downs for all plant equipment, floors, and walls.
• Clean equipment parts, overheads, units, pipes, and lights, smokehouses, breakroom, and bathrooms during work hours.
• Gather trash in carts and transport to the trash compactor for disposal.
• Squeegee floors and clean drains in plant areas.
• Cover sensitive equipment with plastic for protection.
• Follow daily sanitation schedules and achieve specified goals.
• Complete Master Cleaning Schedule to ensure all areas of the facility are cleaned on a regular basis.
• Use the proper chemical for the job and at the specified concentration.
• Complete pre-inspections prior to FSQ (Quality) doing pre-operation inspections to minimize deficiencies found.
• Assist with re-assembly of machines for start-up.
• Follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) training, along with company pre-requisite programs, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), and Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOP’s).
• Suggest improvements; continuously improve the quality of all support activities.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as necessary.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Preferred experience in cleaning or chemical sanitation.
• Able to organize and prioritize in a multi-tasking environment.
• Able to understand and follow Chemical & Lock-Out Tag-Out procedures and policies, once trained.
• Build and support a culture of openness and accountability within (and out-side) the assigned department.
• Demonstrate professionalism; encourage and insist on positive attitudes and behaviors from team members.
• Encourage team member initiative and innovation, and show recognition for effort and achievement.
• Communicate with peers, subordinates, and leaders in an effective, timely manner.
• Suggest improvements; continuously improve the quality of all support activities.
• Able to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Able to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Able to add and subtract two digit numbers.
• Able to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions and deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; must work effectively with all levels of management and team members.
• Must demonstrate effective leadership, problem solving, and team member motivational skills.

Additional Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.