Sanitation Technician

TW Garner Food Company; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

TW Garner Food Company is seeking a dependable Sanitation Technician to support safe, sanitary, and food-safe production. This role cleans, sanitizes, inspects, and prepares production equipment, processing areas, tanks, pipelines, and related surfaces in accordance with company procedures and sanitation schedules.

The Sanitation Technician plays a critical role in ensuring employee safety, food safety, product integrity, sanitation effectiveness, and production readiness.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Ability to read, write, and follow procedures accurately.
• Ability to work in a wet, manufacturing environment and use PPE correctly.
• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, kneel, crouch, climb, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to work overtime, weekends, holidays, and assigned shifts.

Responsibilities

• Clean and sanitize production equipment, processing areas, tanks, pipelines, and related surfaces.
• Disassemble, clean, sanitize, inspect, and reassemble equipment as required.
• Operate sanitation systems and cleaning tools safely and effectively.
• Complete sanitation tasks daily, weekly, monthly, and per schedule.
• Maintain sanitation records, logs, and inspection forms accurately.

Skills

Reading procedures

Safety mindset

PPE compliance

Physical stamina

Standing/walking/ climbing

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Description

About the Role

Garner Foods is seeking a dependable and safety-focused Sanitation Technician to support safe, sanitary, and food-safe production. This role is responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, inspecting, and preparing production equipment, processing areas, tanks, pipelines, utensils, containers, floors, drains, and other assigned areas in accordance with company procedures and sanitation schedules.

The Sanitation Technician plays an important role in supporting employee safety, food safety, product integrity, sanitation effectiveness, and production readiness.

What You'll Do

• Clean and sanitize assigned production equipment, processing areas, tanks, vats, pipelines, fillers, valves, pumps, utensils, containers, totes, floors, drains, and work areas.
• Disassemble, clean, sanitize, inspect, and reassemble production equipment as required by sanitation procedures and training.
• Operate sanitation systems, cleaning tools, hoses, foaming equipment, and other assigned sanitation equipment safely and effectively.
• Complete daily, weekly, monthly, and periodic sanitation tasks according to company procedures and leadership direction.
• Support pre-operational readiness by ensuring assigned equipment and areas are cleaned, sanitized, organized, and ready for production use.
• Complete sanitation records, logs, cleaning records, and inspection forms accurately and timely.
• Identify and report sanitation concerns, unsafe conditions, product residue, chemical concerns, equipment issues, or food safety concerns.
• Follow company policies, GMP, SQF, HACCP, PPE, Lockout/Tagout, Hazard Communication, sanitation, housekeeping, and safety expectations.

What Success Looks Like

A successful Sanitation Technician is dependable, safety-minded, detail-oriented, and able to work efficiently without taking shortcuts. This person understands that sanitation is not just cleaning; it is a food-safety-critical function that supports employee safety, product integrity, customer trust, and production readiness.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read, write, and follow verbal, written, and computer-based procedures.
• Ability to complete sanitation records, logs, and documentation accurately.
• Ability to work in a wet, non-climate-controlled manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work around hot water, cleaning chemicals, sanitizers, production equipment, wet floors, drains, hoses, noise, and food manufacturing conditions.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, crouch, climb, reach, push, pull, lift, and carry as required during the shift.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work overtime, weekends, holidays, and assigned shifts as needed.
• Ability to wear required PPE correctly.
• Ability to complete required safety, food safety, sanitation, chemical safety, and job-specific training.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior sanitation experience.
• Prior food or beverage manufacturing sanitation experience.
• Experience with wet food line sanitation.
• Experience cleaning and sanitizing tanks, fillers, valves, pumps, pipelines, floors, drains, or production equipment.
• Working knowledge of GMP, SQF, HACCP, PPE, LOTO, SDS, sanitation, and food safety expectations.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

This position works in a food manufacturing environment and may include exposure to wet floors, hot water, cleaning chemicals, sanitizers, production equipment, drains, hoses, noise, and non-climate-controlled conditions. The role requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, crouching, climbing, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying during the assigned shift.

Safety & Food Safety Expectations

All employees are expected to follow company safety, food safety, sanitation, GMP, SQF, HACCP, PPE, Lockout/Tagout, Hazard Communication, and housekeeping requirements. Employees are expected to report unsafe conditions, sanitation concerns, equipment issues, chemical concerns, or food safety concerns immediately.

Equal Employment Opportunity

TW Garner Food Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.