3rd Shift -Sanitation Technician-Oven presso Daily's Premium Meats

SUMMARY: Join Daily’s Premium Meats as a Sanitation Technician responsible for nightly plant sanitation. This role focuses on cleaning and sanitizing packaging equipment and surfaces, requiring physical stamina to work on concrete floors and lifting up to 50 pounds. Candidates should be comfortable in a cold/wet environment and able to perform manual labor. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic food production environment with a commitment to diversity and inclusion. The shift hours are 10:30 pm to 7 am, with sunshine pay available. The Oven-Cavity Sanitation Technician is specifically responsible for cleaning in the ready-to-eat cooking area.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES including the following: Other duties may be assigned.

• Working in the Sanitation/Clean-up Department you are responsible for nightly sanitation of the entire plant.
• Primary focus being the cleaning and sanitizing of all packaging room machines, equipment and surfaces. 
• This position requires limited ability to troubleshoot basic sanitation issues and repair/replace parts as needed.
• Position requires applicants to be physically capable of standing/walking 100% of the shift on concrete flooring. 
• Must be able to bend/lift up to 25 lbs. with occasional lifting up to 50 lbs. 
• This position requires the ability to work in the oven cavity area, which will be humid, wet, and hot, with temperatures in excess of 85 degrees, performing hard, manual labor for an eight-hour shift.
• Ability to work at heights up to 9 ft. using ladders is required.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the work environment, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required or preferred. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is internal opening. Candidates must be on the third shift sanitation.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) preferred; or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred. 

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos preferred. Ability to write simple correspondence preferred.  Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers and management.  Bilingual skills preferred.                     

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to apply mathematical concepts to practical situations preferred.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally lift up to 75 pounds and sometimes push/and or move up to 300 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to cold, wet and/or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but sometimes very loud. Working at heights and ability to use ladders safety is required.

NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE: The hours and days of work are established by departmental needs and at the discretion of management.

Daily’s Premium Meats is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential elements that create and foster a welcoming workplace. All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.