Sanitation Lead - Night Shift

Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at  and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

In 2023, Home Chef introduced a new brand, Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites, designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed, fiber-rich, calorie and carb conscious, keto-friendly, and dietitian-approved.

Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings.

This role follows a Night shift schedule, working from 5:30 PM to 4:30 AM, with designated days off on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Sanitation Lead is responsible for providing oversight of the sanitation team for their specific shift for the cleaning and sanitizing of food assembly and storage areas and non-food handling areas (i.e. break rooms, locker rooms).

Executes Sanitation Plan

• Responsible for assigning tasks to Sanitation & Janitorial team to complete required tasks
• Verifies equipment and/or chemicals are being used appropriately
• Observes for unsanitary practices and conditions to make necessary improvements
• Monitors sanitation team for usage of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)

Supports Core Sanitation Activities

• Demonstrates mastery of all core Sanitation & Janitorial Associate responsibilities
• Responsible for accurately documenting master sanitation activity completion for their shift in the appropriate application

Training, Retraining, and Coaching Sanitation/Janitorial Associates

• Serves as point of contact for all Home Chef Sanitation Tools & Applications, trains Sanitation & Janitorial Associates on access and usage
• Delivers training, retraining and coaching in real time to Sanitation & Janitorial Associates to correctly perform their job as necessary, including safety policies

Issue Escalation

• Promptly notifies Sanitation Supervisor, Sanitation Superintendent and/or FSQA Leadership when sanitation issues arise
• Maintain working knowledge of chemical inventory levels, escalating to Sanitation Supervisor or Sanitation Superintendent when inventory levels are low

General Responsibilities

• Follow the facility GMPs and help enforce them throughout the facility
• Support the efforts of the company to maintain our food safety system (SQF) and quality programs
• Follow all company policies and procedures including but not limited to related to safe chemical handling and lock out, tag out (LOTO)

Attitude and Attendance

• Arrives to work at scheduled time and follows time off request procedure
• Communicates with co-workers in a professional manner
• Treats co-workers with respect at all times
• Escalates attitude issues among Sanitation & Janitorial Associates to Supervisor and/or Sanitation Superintendent

This position requires 0% travel

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• General high school degree, or equivalent, (e.g. GED).
• Fluency (reading and writing) in English is required, fluent in Spanish is preferred
• 2+ years of experience working in the food, safety or sanitation industry
• Demonstrated informal leadership in previous positions
• Demonstrated ability to read a Safety Data Sheet (SDS), preferred
• Experience with sanitation of automated equipment, preferred
• Previous experience with GFSI, SQF, FDA, and USDA audits, preferred

Perks and benefits

• Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE
  30 for $30 off your first order!
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
• 401k program
• Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

We are humble team players.

We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.

We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.

We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.

We take ownership.

We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.

We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that…