Sanitation Worker

McCain Foods; Town of Plover (WI); On-site; USD 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly rate

Insurance day ONE of employment

401k match up to 6%

PTO, company holidays, wellness days

Maternity/paternity leave

Set schedule/overtime allowances

Education reimbursement

Job summary

McCain Foods USA, Inc. in Wisconsin seeks a Sanitation Worker to clean production equipment, machines, and work areas, and to manage cleaning chemicals, sanitizers, and waste with safety and accuracy.

You'll follow safety protocols, operate with PPE, and collaborate under pressure on a 6PM–6AM PM shift on a 2-2-3 schedule with shift differential. The role emphasizes quality, documentation, and continuous learning in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Willingness to learn, growth-minded, coachable.
• Strong paperwork, documentation, and reading comprehension skills relevant to job duties.
• Maintains a continuous learning mindset and adapts quickly to new equipment, processes, and roles.
• Communicates clearly with all levels of the organization, follows instructions, and completes necessary documentation in English.
• Pays close attention to detail, prioritizing product quality, safety, and accurate record-keeping.
• Physically capable of meeting job requirements including lifting 20–80 lbs and working in wet, humid environments.

Responsibilities

• Clean, sanitize, and inspect plant equipment to meet quality and safety standards, including after-construction detailing.
• Operate around large processing equipment using chemicals, ensuring proper use of PPE.
• Assist with transporting heavy equipment and perform physically demanding tasks such as lifting, crouching, and working on lifts, ladders, or in construction zones.
• Collaborate effectively with the team under stressful conditions, following supervisor instructions and safety protocols.
• Maintain necessary certifications including scissor lift and high lift, and perform all tasks safely to prevent hazards.

Skills

Paperwork + documentation

Reading comprehension

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork under pressure

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Position Title: Sanitation Worker - C Crew. Position Type: Regular - Full-Time. Grade: 3B. Requisition ID: 43690.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences -together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About The Role.

What you’ll be doing.

Responsibilities.

As a Sanitation Worker, you will play a key role in cleaning production equipment, machines, and work areas. Responsibilities will include handling and preparing cleaning chemicals, preparing sanitizers, preparing chemical concentrations, handling, and storing the chemicals, and managing chemical accidents, dry clean-up and disposing of waste. Your day-to-day may consist of:

• Clean, sanitize, and inspect plant equipment to meet quality and safety standards, including after-construction detailing.
• Operate around large processing equipment using chemicals, ensuring proper use of power tools and required safety gear (PPE).
• Assist with transporting heavy equipment and perform physically demanding tasks such as lifting, crouching, and working on lifts, ladders, or in construction zones.
• Collaborate effectively with the team under stressful conditions, following supervisor instructions and safety protocols.
• Maintain necessary certifications including scissor lift and high lift, and perform all tasks in a safe manner to prevent hazards.

This role works in a manufacturing environment with potential exposure to loud noises, strong odors, temperature fluctuations, moving machinery, wet or humid conditions, hazardous chemicals, high or confined areas, extreme temperatures, and vibration throughout various facility areas. This role also regularly engages in prolonged standing, walking, communicating, and sensory tasks throughout each shift, while frequently handling objects, climbing, balancing, and performing various physical movements such as stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling as part of job duties. The use of close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus is required.

Available Shift: PM Shift (6PM-6AM) on a 2-2-3 schedule, shift differential offered.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Manufacturing experience is not required but preferred - must be willing to learn, hungry for growth, & coachable.
• Demonstrate strong paperwork, documentation, and reading comprehension skills relevant to job duties.
• Maintains a continuous learning mindset and adapts quickly to new equipment, processes, and roles.
• Demonstrates strong technical ability with a digital-first approach, embracing new technologies and accurately entering data.
• Communicates clearly with all levels of the organization, follows instructions (written/oral/diagram form), and completes necessary documentation independently in English.
• Pays close attention to detail, prioritizing product quality, safety, and accurate record-keeping.
• Physically capable of meeting job requirements and consistently brings a positive, team-focused attitude to work.
• Demonstrates adaptability, technical proficiency, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills while working independently or collaboratively to ensure effective and logical decision-making in diverse situations.
• Physically capable of performing essential duties, including lifting and moving water and chemical hoses, equipment, and containers weighing 20-80 lbs throughout the shift.
• Adapt to working in environments that are wet, humid, and subject to extreme temperature changes.

Benefits Of The Role.

• Competitive hourly rate
• Insurance day ONE of employment
• 401k match up to 6%
• PTO, company holidays, wellness days
• Maternity/paternity leave
• Set schedule/overtime allowances
• Education reimbursement

Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

The McCain Experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

Compensation Package.

- Starting at 25.42 USD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Manufacturing

Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Plover

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.