Sanitation Specialist

Overview

To be responsible for ensuring equipment and facility sanitary specifications are attained. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to extreme cold.

The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and toxic or caustic chemicals.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing tasks as assigned by Department Supervisor which may include: detailed cleaning of the facility, maintain cleanliness of common areas including break room and bathrooms, post-op cleaning of facility, detailed cleaning assignments as assigned, and any other duties as needed
• Responsible for ensuring the sanitary specifications of the equipment and facility are obtained.
• Must be able to understand the proper use of cleaning chemicals and cleaning procedures to work in an efficient yet effective manner.
• Must be able to work as a team player with other employees in the Sanitation and Production departments.
• Must use proper personal protective equipment.
• Must be able to be flexible with varying job assignments and working conditions.
• Responsible for following plant rules and working conditions as it pertains the GMP’s and clean equipment criteria.

Qualifications:

• No prior experience or training required.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Location: Petersburg, VA

Time Type: Full time

Department: Sanitation 3rd Shift