Sanitation Crew Member

Sanitation Crew Member

The Sanitation Crew Member is responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, and food-grade manufacturing environment by performing thorough cleaning and sanitizing of production equipment, processing areas, and facility spaces within the ice cream plant. This role plays a critical part in ensuring food safety, product quality, and regulatory compliance by following established sanitation procedures, safety standards, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs). The Sanitation Crew Member works closely with production and sanitation leadership to ensure the facility remains audit-ready at all times, supporting continuous operations in a cold, wet, and industrial environment typical of frozen dairy manufacturing. Duties are performed in accordance with company policies, HACCP programs, OSHA regulations, and applicable food safety laws.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Performance Responsibilities:

• Ensures the plant is audit-ready at all times by foaming, scrubbing, and sanitizing the outside of all equipment, tanks, stairs, walls, floors, baseboards, handrails, sinks, drains, and trash cans throughout the plant.
• Assists production staff with cleaning up major projects as needed.
• Helps maintain the cleanliness of infrastructure up to plant standards.
• Responsible for the daily exterior cleaning of machinery.
• Ensures different rooms are cleaned throughout the plant by scrubbing, sweeping, wiping, etc.
• Takes direction from the Sanitation Supervisor to resolve sanitation-related issues.
• Works with Production and co-workers to meet sanitation schedules while maximizing productivity.
• Analyzes and resolves sanitation work problems or assists workers in solving sanitation work problems.
• Responsible for keeping outside grounds cleaned all year round.
• Clean common and office areas on occasion.
• Demonstrates sound work ethics.
• Pays close attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in teams.
• Actively participates as a member of assigned teams.
• Adheres to all plant, OSHA, and Safety Regulations.
• Performs other projects as assigned.

Position Specifications/Qualifications:

Education:

• Required: High School Diploma/GED or Equivalent work-related experience

Experience:

• Dairy or food plant experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of sanitation operations; maintains knowledge of current and developing sanitation techniques
• Knowledge of HACCP
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

Working Conditions:

• Subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than two hours
• There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level
• Subject up to at least 92db's

Physical Requirements:

• Excessive ascending and/or descending of ladders and stairs using feet and legs and/or hands and arms on a regular basis. Body agility is emphasized
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances on a continuous basis
• Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time on concrete
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist on a regular basis
• Kneeling: Bending legs at the knee to come to rest on the knee or knees
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine
• Lifting: Able to lift up to 50lbs occasionally, up to 20lbs regularly
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Includes activities in which they must accurately, loudly, or quickly convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of sanitation operations; maintains knowledge of current and developing sanitation techniques
• Knowledge of HACCP

Skills:

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously