Sanitation Worker

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences — together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About The Role

As a Sanitation Worker, you will play a key role in cleaning production equipment, machines, and work areas. Responsibilities will include handling and preparing cleaning chemicals, preparing sanitizers, preparing chemical concentrations, handling, and storing the chemicals, and managing chemical accidents, dry clean-up and disposing of waste.

• Clean, sanitize, and inspect plant equipment to meet quality and safety standards, including after-construction detailing.
• Operate around large processing equipment using chemicals, ensuring proper use of power tools and required safety gear (PPE).
• Assist with transporting heavy equipment and perform physically demanding tasks such as lifting, crouching, and working on lifts, ladders, or in construction zones.
• Collaborate effectively with the team under stressful conditions, following supervisor instructions and safety protocols.
• Maintain necessary certifications including scissor lift and high lift, and perform all tasks in a safe manner to prevent hazards.

This role works in a manufacturing environment with potential exposure to loud noises, strong odors, temperature fluctuations, moving machinery, wet or humid conditions, hazardous chemicals, high or confined areas, and extreme temperatures. The position requires prolonged standing, walking, communicating, and sensory tasks throughout each shift, while frequently handling objects, climbing, balancing, and performing physical movements such as stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling. The use of close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus is required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Manufacturing experience is not required but preferred – must be willing to learn, hungry for growth, and coachable.
• Demonstrate strong paperwork, documentation, and reading comprehension skills relevant to job duties.
• Maintains a continuous learning mindset and adapts quickly to new equipment, processes, and roles.
• Demonstrates strong technical ability with a digital-first approach, embracing new technologies and accurately entering data.
• Communicates clearly with all levels of the organization, follows instructions (written/oral/diagram form), and completes necessary documentation independently in English.
• Pays close attention to detail, prioritizing product quality, safety, and accurate record-keeping.
• Physically capable of meeting job requirements and consistently brings a positive, team-focused attitude to work.
• Demonstrates adaptability, technical proficiency, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills while working independently or collaboratively.
• Physically capable of performing essential duties, including lifting and moving water and chemical hoses, equipment, and containers weighing 20–80 lbs throughout the shift.
• Adapt to working in environments that are wet, humid, and subject to extreme temperature changes.

Schedule

PM Shift (6PM-6AM) on a 2-2-3 schedule, shift differential offered.

Pay

Starting at 25.42 USD hourly + bonus eligibility + hourly pay differential for applicable shifts.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate.
• Insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug) starting day one of employment.
• 401k match up to 6%.
• PTO, company holidays, wellness days.
• Maternity/paternity leave.
• Set schedule/overtime allowances.
• Education reimbursement.
• Retirement savings benefits and leave support, including medical, family, and bereavement.
• Well-being programs including vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources.

At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits and well-being programs reflect that.