Sanitation Specialist

Classic Jerky Company; Taylor (MI); On-site; USD 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Link Snacks is seeking a dependable sanitation associate for the 2nd shift (Mon–Fri, 6pm–2:30am) in a fast-paced meat-snack manufacturing environment. The role involves cleaning and sanitizing processing areas and equipment, following USDA guidelines and GMP standards.

The ideal candidate has personal safety awareness, ability to follow SSOPs, and prior experience in food sanitation. Training on safety and equipment will be provided to ensure continuous plant operations.

Qualifications

• Able to organize and prioritize in a multi-tasking environment.
• Understand and follow Safety SOPs and GMP standards.
• Previous experience in a food manufacturing sanitation role is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Clean and sanitize processing area and equipment following USDA guidelines.
• Disassemble, handle, and reassemble equipment while maintaining safety and sanitation.
• Ensure cleaning chemicals, times, temperatures, and flows meet safety and cleaning standards.
• Operate Clean In Place and Clean Out of Place systems.
• Complete documentation and record-keeping accurately and on time.
• Inspect sanitation work to ensure standards are met for safe start of plant processing.

Skills

Organize and prioritize

Team collaboration

Safety-conscious

Attention to detail

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Company Description

At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

Company Description

At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago. We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands: Jack Link’s®, Lorissa’s™ Organic Snacks, Golden Island®, BiFi®, Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few, there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it. Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks. Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.

Job Description

Hours: 2nd Shift Monday- Friday 6pm-2:30am

Pay: $17.00 hour

Job Description

• Clean and sanitize processing area and equipment, following guidelines of U.S.D.A. during evening shift.
• Disassemble, handle, and reassemble equipment in a manner that maintains the conditions and food safety of the equipment at all times.
• Ensure that cleaning chemical concentrations, cleaning times, temperatures and flows meet personal safety, food safety and cleaning standards
• Follow all sanitation, general plant, area-specific and equipment specific safe practices and GMP standards
• Safely and efficiently operate Clean In Place and Clean Out of Place systems
• Complete all documentation, communication and record-keeping requirements accurately, on time and in a professional manner
• Inspect sanitation work and follow up as appropriate to ensure that all operating and sanitation standards have been met to ensure a safe and effective on-time start of plant processing and equipment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• The ability to be organized, self-motivated, work as a team in a fast paced work environment
• The ability to understand and execute Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP's) and best practices safely, consistently and effectively
• Previous experience in a food manufacturing sanitation role is preferred

Physical demands of the job: During an 8 hour night shift, the employee will perform the following on a frequent to constant basis:

• Standing
• Walking
• Bending, twisting
• Pushing, pulling
• Reaching
• Overhead work
• Climbing
• Carrying, both bilateral and unilateral
• Repetitive motion: using upper extremities to wipe, scrub, scrape, sweep, mop etc.
• Kneel
• Crouch or squat as specific work assignments require.

Also required

• Tolerance / ability to work at heights on ladders and scissors lifts in order to clean ceiling tiles, pipes, and the tops of large sections of equipment.
• Scissors lifts: from a few feet off the ground to ceiling height, up to 30 feet
• Equipment used: mops, buckets, rags, scrub brushes, hoses, power washer, scrapers, air hoses, pallet jack, etc.

Benefit Conditions

• Waiting period may apply

This Job Is

• A job for which military experienced candidates are encouraged to apply
• Open to applicants who do not have a high school diploma/GED
• A good fit for applicants with gaps in their resume, or who have been out of the workforce for the past 6 months or more
• A good job for someone just entering the workforce or returning to the workforce with limited experience and education
• A job for which all ages, including older job seekers, are encouraged to apply
• Open to applicants who do not have a college diploma

Qualifications

Required Education: High School Diploma or GED preferred but not required

Preferred Experience: Cleaning or chemical sanitation experience/training or equivalent.

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE and ABILITIES

• Able to organize and prioritize in a multi-tasking environment.
• Able to understand and follow Chemical & Lock-Out Tag-Out procedures and policies, once trained.
• Communicate with peers, subordinates, and leaders in an effective, timely manner.
• Suggest improvements; continuously improve the quality of all support activities.
• Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related-problems.
• Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers.
• Ability to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions and deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Additional Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Link Snacks is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

E-Verify

Link Snacks provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid, we use E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. If you believe that Link Snacks has violated our responsibilities under this program or has discriminated against you during the verification process based upon your national origin or citizenship status, please call the Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD: 1-800-237-2515). All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.