Food Safety Technician - 2nd Shift - 12:30pm - 9pm

Hawaiian; Oakwood (IL); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dedicated Food Safety Technician to uphold the highest sanitation standards across its facilities. This role is crucial in ensuring that all baking and packaging functions meet rigorous safety protocols. Join a family-owned company that values inclusivity and innovation, where your contributions will directly impact the health and well-being of employees and customers alike. With a commitment to training and development, this position offers a dynamic work environment where you can grow and thrive. If you are passionate about food safety and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• One year experience in a food manufacturing facility preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure sanitary conditions at all facilities, especially in baking and packaging.
• Maintain and follow the warehouse sanitation program effectively.
• Communicate safety matters and promote safety in operations.

Skills

Food Safety Knowledge

Sanitation Procedures

Communication Skills

Mathematical Skills

Safety Consciousness

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Cleaning Equipment

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Job description

Food Safety Technician - 2nd Shift - 12:30pm - 9pm

Pay Competitive

Location: Oakwood, Georgia

Employment type: Full-Time

Job Description

• Req#: JR100738

Joining King’s Hawaiian makes you part of our `ohana (family). We are a family-owned business for over seventy years, respecting our roots while thinking about our future as we continue to grow and care for our customers and the communities we serve. Our `ohana members build an environment of inclusivity as they freely collaborate, pursue learning through curiosity, and explore innovation as critical thinkers. Beyond that, we are also passionate about supporting the long-term health and well-being of our employees and their families. If you’re excited to rise with our team, come and join our `ohana!

Summary: To ensure sanitary conditions at all King’s Hawaiian plants and warehouses, especially in all baking and packaging functions.

Job Requirements:

• Accurately cleans equipment area or periodic work.
• Sweeps, mops and maintains the offices, restrooms and lunchrooms as well as the outside parameters.
• Performs work safely using the accurate methods as directed.
• Follows and maintains the warehouse sanitation program utilizing a Master Cleaning Schedule and ensures implementation of accurate procedures in all King’s Hawaiian warehouses.
• Evaluates sanitation issues related to interactions of ingredients in dough mixing to ensure no sanitation standards are compromised during the mixing process.
• Works with Food Safety Supervisor to maintain plant procedures and operations guidelines, which ensure compliance with food laws and labeling requirements.
• Familiar with the use of appropriate cleaners and sanitizers for all food processing equipment and plant facilities.
• Performs daily self-inspection systems and techniques to monitor sanitation issues with all equipment.
• Inspects work prior to it being checked by foreman.
• Must be knowledgeable with the Lock out Tag out Safety program.
• Helps in training of new employees or employees who change job classifications.
• Reports all equipment problems to the foreman or supervisor immediately.
• Communicates all matters relating to safety and health and positively promotes safety in our operations.
• Understands and follows all general and specific safe job procedures that apply to your job.
• Plans and carries out job assignments without crafting hazards to yourself and other employees.
• Promotes safety by understanding and following safety procedures and reporting all incidents in a timely manner.
• Must have flexible work schedule.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. This individual must be safety conscious. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills/Experience:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• One year experience in a food manufacturing facility.

Language skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals written in English.

Mathematical skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Certificates, licenses, registrations: Will maintain CPR and AED certification (Company will provide periodic recertification training).

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Duties may require use of equipment in machine shop, small portable equipment and manual tools. Duties may require occasional operation of a motor vehicle or travel to another state on behalf of the company.

Work environment: This position is scheduled to work on a shift basis. May also be scheduled to work all shifts. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, and extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually high.

King's Hawaiian is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our ohana.

About the company

King's Hawaiian is a Los Angeles-based family-owned and operated bakery, known chiefly for its Hawaiian bread.