Sanitation Lead I - Weekend D Shift (6am-6:30pm)

Now Foods•Sparks, NV

21h•Onsite

About The Position

The Sanitation Lead I assists the Sanitation Supervisor in coordinating sanitation personnel and assignments and maintaining cleanliness throughout the manufacturing plant, production areas, warehouse, and common areas. The role performs and supports cleaning and sanitation tasks in accordance with the General Sanitation Procedures, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and Master Sanitation Schedule, including cleaning product-contact parts, equipment, workstations, and facility areas. The lead helps ensure daily shift goals and performance metrics are met, coordinates cleaning plans with other departments, conducts inventory and orders sanitation supplies, and provides guidance and training to sanitation technicians. The position also supports production changeovers, continuous improvement initiatives, environmental incidents, cleaning investigations, biohazard cleanup, chemical spills, and identification of repair, maintenance, and sanitation improvement needs. The role completes required documentation and follows safety, cGMP, SOP, and SQF requirements. Work takes place throughout manufacturing and warehouse facilities, with exposure to ingredients, mixes, equipment, and packaging. The employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to aromas, dust, and airborne particles, including some allergens or irritants. Noise is usually moderately loud, and hearing protection is required in some areas. The job involves frequent standing and walking, stairs, reaching, bending, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and handling or moving loads weighing up to 60 pounds as described in the posting.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED at minimum.
More than five years of experience as a Sanitation Technician, Production Operator, or Warehouse Operator in a food manufacturing production or warehouse environment.
Licensed to drive moving or powered industrial equipment such as electric pallet jacks, forklifts, and man-lifts.
Ability to operate powered industrial equipment, including electric pallet jacks, forklifts, and man-lifts.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as MSDS sheets, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and SOP manuals.
Ability to complete sanitation and production paperwork accurately and in a timely manner.
Good verbal communication skills.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Basic computer and data-entry skills.
Good attention to detail.
Strong teamwork and communication skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to collaborate with others.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while following company and safety policies, and to change tasks, learn new tasks, and work in different areas as needed.
Ability to understand and carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or oral instructions and address problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including regularly standing or walking, using stairs, reaching, bending, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting or moving loads up to 60 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Prior leadership experience.

Responsibilities

Assist the Sanitation Supervisor in delegating tasks and cleaning assignments to sanitation technicians.
Coordinate and collaborate with other departments when planning cleaning assignments.
Ensure the sanitation team meets daily shift goals and performance metrics.
Conduct daily inventory and order cleaning and sanitation supplies.
Provide guidance and training to sanitation technicians and participate in training new department employees.
Inspect areas for sanitary repairs, improvements, or preventative maintenance, and report facility repair and maintenance issues.
Assist with environmental incidents, cleaning investigations, biohazard cleanup, and chemical spill cleanup.
Participate in continuous improvement projects and identify opportunities to improve quality and sanitation.
Clean and sanitize production workstations, including product-contact parts, equipment and non-product-contact parts, walls, ceilings, vents, floors, and drains.
Perform duties on the Master Sanitation Schedule, including cleaning common areas, production areas, warehouse areas, and other facility spaces.
Deep-clean production workstations and offices, hallways, and other common areas as requested.
Remove and dispose of trash and clean garbage bins.
Assist production personnel with changeovers and workstation cleaning.
Operate sanitation equipment, including electric pallet jacks, forklifts, man-lifts, floor scrubbers, power washers, vacuums, explosion-proof vacuums, and dust collectors, as applicable to assigned areas.
Check soap titrations and water temperature in tote washers.
Refill soap, sanitizers, paper towels, and other personal protective equipment or bathroom supplies as needed.
Complete daily sanitation and other required documentation accurately and on time.
Support Production and Quality teams through sanitation efforts and initiatives.
Comply with safety, cGMP, SOP, and SQF requirements; use required personal protective equipment and report workplace incidents and hazards.
Perform other related duties as assigned.