Sanitation Lead - Shift

Position Title: Sanitation Lead - D Crew - Shift

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Grade: 6A

Requisition : 40063

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.

At our Appleton, WI plant, we have two parts of our sanitation team: a core team and a shift team. The Sanitation Lead - Shift will help lead the shift team by assisting with supervision, training and scheduling the team. The shift sanitation team is hands‑on every day, moving equipment and dispensing cleaning chemicals to ensure our facility (inside and outside) and appetizer manufacturing equipment is cleaned and sanitized to the highest standards.

Your day‑to‑day may consist of:

• Monitoring daily plant operations, prioritizing tasks, allocating duties to sanitation staff, and ensuring all processes and cleaning equipment are functioning correctly.
• Communicating effectively with production supervisors to coordinate cleaning schedules and addressing any issues; completing required documentation accurately.
• Training new and transferred employees on sanitation procedures and equipment use, maintaining training materials, and keeping training records updated.
• Ordering necessary sanitation supplies, supporting conflict resolution, participating in all mandatory training, and adhering to safety protocols and company guidelines.

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, extreme temperatures, and vibration throughout various facility areas. It also regularly engages in prolonged standing, walking, communicating, and sensory tasks throughout each shift, while frequently handling objects, climbing, balancing, and performing various physical movements such as stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling as part of job duties.

The use of close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus is required.

Available Shift(s): PM Shift (6PM-6AM) on a 2‑2‑3 schedule

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 2+ years of experience working in an industrial sanitation role with 1+ years of leadership experience required
• Experience working with a forklift, boom lift, and high lift is beneficial – ability to work at various heights required
• FSPCA certification strongly preferred
• 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 to ensure effective and logical decision‑making in diverse situations.
• Demonstrates the physical capability to bend frequently and lift heavy objects (up to 50 pounds), alongside proficiency in safely operating Powered Industrial to support workplace operations.

• Competitive hourly rate
• Insurance day ONE of employment
• 401k match up to 6%
• PTO, holiday pay, wellness days
• Maternity/paternity leave
• Set schedule/overtime allowances
• Pay for skills program/education reimbursement

Job Family: Manufacturing

Location(s): United States of America, Wisconsin, Appleton

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.

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