Operations Sanitation Team Member

Job Description

Job Description

At RealCold, you're more than an employee—you’re part of a team that's building the future of cold chain logistics. We invest in our people by providing opportunities to learn, grow, and advance while fostering a culture built on integrity, accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.

When you join RealCold, you'll find:

• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits
• Career growth and leadership development opportunities
• A safety-first culture where every employee matters
• A collaborative team that values your ideas and contributions
• Meaningful work with a fast-growing industry leader

Build your career with a company that's growing—and helping its people grow along with it. If you're ready to grow your career with a company that's growing too, we'd love to meet you.

The Role:

RealCold is seeking a dependable and detail-oriented Operations Sanitation Team Member to support the cleanliness, appearance, and overall upkeep of our Polk City, Florida facility. This position maintains offices, conference rooms, employee breakrooms, restrooms, locker rooms, truck driver areas, lobbies, entrances, and other assigned common spaces in a clean, safe, and professional condition.

The successful candidate will take pride in their work, demonstrate reliable attendance, work effectively with limited supervision, and help ensure that the facility is ready for employees, visitors, customers, and audits. This role does not routinely clean the cold storage areas or dock space.

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities:

Facility Cleaning and Upkeep

• Clean and maintain offices, conference rooms, lobbies, employee entrances, truck driver areas, and other assigned common spaces.
• Clean, disinfect, and restock restrooms throughout the facility.
• Clean and maintain employee locker rooms.
• Clean and sanitize employee breakrooms, including tables, chairs, countertops, sinks, refrigerators, microwaves, vending areas, and other common-use surfaces and appliances.
• Sweep, vacuum, mop, dust, wipe, and spot-clean floors, furniture, fixtures, doors, walls, baseboards, and other surfaces in assigned areas.
• Clean interior glass, windows, mirrors, doors, and high-touch surfaces.
• Empty trash and recycling containers, replace liners, and transport waste to designated collection areas.
• Complete periodic deep-cleaning and special cleaning projects as assigned.
• Respond promptly to spills and other routine cleaning needs in assigned areas.

Supplies and Facility Support

• Monitor cleaning supplies and restroom or breakroom consumables and notify management when replenishment is needed.
• Restock paper products, soap, hand sanitizer, trash liners, and other approved supplies.
• Keep janitorial closets, storage areas, carts, and supplies clean, secure, and organized.
• Use vacuums, mops, brooms, dusters, cleaning carts, and other basic cleaning tools safely and properly.
• Identify and report maintenance concerns, safety hazards, damaged fixtures, leaks, supply shortages, or unusual conditions to the General Manager or designee.

Safety, Compliance, and Audit Readiness

• Follow all company safety, security, sanitation, and housekeeping policies and procedures.
• Properly label, handle, use, and store cleaning products and chemicals in accordance with product instructions and company requirements.
• Use required personal protective equipment and follow posted safety instructions.
• Maintain assigned areas in a clean and orderly condition suitable for customer visits, facility tours, inspections, and audits.
• Provide additional cleaning support before or during customer visits, executive visits, and audits as directed.
• Perform duties in a manner that avoids disruption to facility employees, drivers, visitors, and operations.
• Complete cleaning checklists or other basic documentation as assigned.

Other Responsibilities

• Work cooperatively with facility leadership and other associates.
• Provide coverage for assigned areas and adjust priorities based on facility needs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned. Duties and responsibilities may be updated based on business needs.

Requirements of the Position:

• Minimum one (1) year of janitorial, custodial, housekeeping, sanitation, or commercial cleaning experience is preferred.
• Experience cleaning offices or common areas within a warehouse, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, or other commercial environment is preferred.
• Basic familiarity with common cleaning products, safe chemical handling, and standard janitorial tools is preferred.
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Ability to read, write, understand, and communicate basic work instructions in English.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• The ability to work in a team environment geared towards the common goals of shipping product/customer orders on time and in a safe manner.
• Interact in a professional, friendly and respectful manner.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Positive attitude and strong desire to succeed.
• Great work ethic.
• Ability to listen and take direction agreeably.
• Be on time to work and reliable.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions, including cleaning product labels and safety information.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and complete assigned tasks within the scheduled shift.
• Dependable attendance, punctuality, attention to detail, and commitment to maintaining clean and safe work areas.

Work Requirements:

• Must be able to pass a background check.
• Must be flexible and be able to work overtime.
• Must be willing to work weekends and evenings.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Dress code is relaxed with a few rules to follow for safety; comfortable, closed-toe shoes are required.

Work Environment:

Works in a cold storage facility with exposure to low to below zero temperatures. This job may involve occasional exposure to some disagreeable elements such as dust, noise, etc. Accidents are improbable other than minor injuries. Environment may be fast paced at times. You will be working around moving machines, order pickers and forklifts.

Physical Demands:

This is not an all-inclusive list, but it is intended to give an overview physical requirement for this position. Reasonable accommodation will be provided under appropriate circumstances and in accordance with applicable law. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Continually: Sit, stand and walk for extended periods of time
• Continually: Speak and hear
• Continually: Lifting between 15 and 40 lbs.
• Continually: Maintain attention for long periods of time with constant interruptions
• Continually: Work in an environment of 34 degrees for up to 10 to 12 hours per day
• Occasionally: Reaching and pulling

RealCold is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We believe in providing employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.