Facility Sanitor IN, Monday

Job Title: Facility Sanitor (1st Shift)

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Key Responsibilities

• Trash, debris, and waste removal from the plant.
• General housekeeping.
• Ensure compliance with corporate standards and systems to monitor food safety, food safety culture, quality, and facility cleanliness.
• Drum washing.
• Operate floor scrubber.
• Operate manual pallet jack and electric pallet stacker.
• Operate drum crushers and cardboard baler machine.
• Barrel washing.
• Support recycling efforts by staging recyclable materials for takeaway.
• Properly use water hoses and chemicals as required to clean and sanitize areas as designated.
• Assist in various physical tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Assist the team in a variety of functions including trash removal, stacking, maintaining the work area, proper staging and removal of materials, cleaning, housekeeping, and other duties as assigned.
• Maintain a safe, sanitary, and organized environment that supports operations.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Produce products free of contamination.
• Follow all Ken’s Foods Security and GMP policies.
• Report any suspicious activities anywhere in or around the plant.
• Inspect work area for any possible product contamination issues on a continuous basis.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High school diploma/GED
• One to three months of related experience or training
• Ability to work efficiently and safely.
• Ability to work with chemicals for drum washing.
• Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Ability to perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment.
• Ability to take prompt and appropriate response to operating conditions.
• Ability to work in an unfatigued state.
• Ability to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance.
• Ability to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short-term memory.
• Ability to concentrate.
• Ability to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms.
• Demonstrated caring, committed, and concerned attitude about safety.
• Optional: Can drive a fork truck for retrieval of raw materials (license would be required).

Qualifications

• Basic math skills:
• Measure weight, volume, and distance.
• Add and subtract two-digit numbers.
• Multiply and divide with 10s and 100s.
• Physical Demands:
• Lift or move up to 50 lbs. (occasionally move up to 100 lbs.)
• Able to frequently stand and walk.
• Use hands and fingers to handle or feel.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Able to occasionally climb/balance.
• Able to occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Able to hear.
• Language Skills:
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words.
• Recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
• Reasoning Ability:
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions.
• Deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Work Environment:
• Regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Usually loud noise level.