Sanitation - 2nd Shift

Smithfield Foods•Lincoln, NE

About The Position

The Sanitation team member supports food production by breaking down and disposing of cardboard and plastic combos, pallets, and production-related trash; compacting waste; and keeping floors and work areas clean. The role requires following instructions and safety requirements while working in a physically demanding, wet, noisy environment that may include cold or warm areas, strong odors, animal blood or carcass parts, and sanitation chemicals. Team members may perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age.
Able to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
Able to perform continuous and repetitive movements, including grasping, pinching, and flexing and extending the arms.
Able to stand on concrete or platforms for up to a 12-hour shift; walk long distances; and bend, stoop, and twist repetitively.
Able to climb or move on ladders, steps, stairways, walkways, and platforms.
Able to work around animal blood or carcass parts, sanitation chemicals, strong odors, and in wet, humid, noisy, cold (approximately 20–40°F), or warm (over 100°F) areas.
Able to wear a hard hat, hearing and eye protection, steel-toed safety shoes, and other required PPE.
Able to break down cardboard combos weighing 15–70 pounds when moved by hand and fold and stack black plastic combos weighing up to 106 pounds each; PIT operator assistance may be used to move heavy stacked combos.
Able to stack pallets weighing up to 55–75 pounds each.
Some positions may require repetitive overhead lifting up to 30 pounds and single lifting of objects up to 60 pounds, or lifting with mechanical assistance.
Able to meet the expected pace of breaking down one plastic or cardboard combo every five minutes.
Able to work the scheduled shift and, depending on production demands, overtime.
Good hand-eye coordination and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

Break down, fold, and stack empty cardboard and black plastic combos; remove liners and straps before breaking them down.
Transport cardboard combos to the compactor room and compact them. Ensure trash and cardboard combos are compacted before the end of the shift.
Discard pallet shrink wrap and stack pallets flat within specified height limits; put pallets away.
Collect trash, including nettings, straps, and shrink wrap, and compact it.
Squeegee floors periodically and use a water hose as needed to remove grime or fat.
Remove USDA bugs from combos designated as trash.
Follow oral and written instructions and perform other duties as assigned.