Senior Sanitation Technician

We are a leading manufacturer of premium, ready-to-eat link sausages and hot dogs. The company was founded in 2004 by four brothers, Chris, Joe, Mark, and Pete Salm. They partnered their individual talents together to create our organization, using the "partnership" concept as the cornerstone for our success. Since then, we have expanded and have two production plants with over 1,000 partners in Denmark, WI.

In 2023, Johnsonville purchased Salm Partners to help grow not only its own ready-to-eat sausage business, but the ready-to-eat sausage category as a whole. The combination of the country’s most trusted retail sausage brand (Johnsonville) with the industry leading manufacturer (Salm Partners) has created a world class organization. We are committed to growth as a company and to our partners!

Coordinates and performs sanitation activities with the contracted Sanitation team in support of production and SSOP requirements, including daily, mid-week, week-ending, and Master Sanitation activities for all production lines and facilities. This role provides hands‑on sanitation support, including equipment disassembly, cleaning, inspection, and reassembly as needed to ensure sanitary conditions are achieved and maintained. Provides oversight in inventory and use of cleaning chemicals and ensures compliance with all USDA, GMP, food safety, SQF, and safety policies, procedures, and regulations.

• Assist the Sanitation Supervisor in serving as a liaison to the contract sanitation service Site Supervisor, including communicating production schedule changes that affect the timing of the sanitation cycle.
• Assist the Sanitation Supervisor in coordinating and overseeing sanitation activities to ensure safe and efficient operations; help communicate cleaning priorities and tasks to the Sanitation Site Supervisor and sanitation personnel.
• Perform hands‑on sanitation duties as needed, including cleaning, scrubbing, foaming, rinsing, sanitizing, and inspection of equipment and production areas.
• Safely disassemble and reassemble production equipment and machinery to allow for effective deep cleaning and sanitation.
• Assist with sanitation of complex equipment, including conveyors, pumps, fillers, grinders, slicers, and other processing equipment.
• Ensure sanitation is completed to established standards and sanitary conditions are achieved before production startup.
• Verify the Master Sanitation schedule is being followed and cleaning is completed per the established frequency.
• Conduct pre-operational inspections and identify areas requiring corrective action.
• Ensure sanitation team members are trained to current cleaning procedures for production areas and equipment.
• Maintain locked chemical storage areas; ensure cage areas are secured and Chemical Cage training is current.
• Ensure all chemical containers are accurately labeled and stored properly.
• Verify empty containers are rinsed, isolated, and securely stored until picked up or disposed of.
• Perform chemical titrations, verify Titration Logs, and ensure Titration training is current.
• Ensure sanitation team members effectively trained on safe chemical handling and proper PPE usage.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with all SSOP, USDA, GMP, SQF, food safety, and sanitation requirements.
• Ensure sanitation personnel consistently follow Lock-out/Tag-out procedures.
• Troubleshoot sanitation and equipment cleaning issues and elevate major concerns in a timely manner.
• Communicate major sanitation concerns to the Facilitator, Plant Manager, and Sanitation Site Supervisor.
• Evaluate and request appropriate sanitation PPE to ensure partner safety.
• Comply with all established safety policies and procedures; promote and maintain safety awareness and identify…