Sanitation Technician at TW Garner Food Company – Winston Salem, North Carolina

About the Sanitation Technician position

The Sanitation Technician is responsible for proactively providing a clean, safe, and sanitary environment for the safe production of food products in accordance with company policy and abiding with all food safety regulations, standards, and guidelines.

Sanitation Technician responsibilities are:

• Report for assigned shift in a timely manner, in appropriate attire.
• Adherence to Garner Foods policies, FDA guidelines for food safety and food defense, SQF code, HACCP, and other applicable regulations.
• Responsible for complex cleaning activities in manufacturing facilities
• Must be able to operate critical equipment, valves, pumps, Fillers, and production equipment
• Operate the sanitizing system to clean and sanitize equipment, tanks, and pipelines
• Disassembly and reassembly of production equipment to perform necessary cleaning, sanitizing, and reassembling of these pieces of equipment
• Clean processing tanks and vats
• Ability to log and complete all required recorded batch documents according to food safety and food defense regulations for proper record keeping.
• Clean various items throughout facility including but not limited to weighing containers, scoops, totes, floors, mixing equipment
• Able to work safely with cleaning agents and high temperature water (120 º F and above) OTC (over the counter) products.
• Conducts daily, weekly, and monthly inspections on all equipment in the facility and ensures that it is maintained in clean and sanitary condition.
• Other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Sanitation Technician requirements are:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior sanitation experience, Food and or beverage industry, wet food lines preferred.
• Working knowledge of GMP, FDA, SQF, HACCP regulations and requirements preferred.
• Experience using Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Ability to work in wet non-climate-controlled environment.
• Strong commitment to safety, customers, quality, and productivity is required.
• Ability to stand/walk/bend/kneel /crouch/climb (when necessary) for duration of shift assigned.
• Able to read, write, and follow verbal/written procedures, including computer based.
• Strong attention to detail skills.
• Ability to lift/carry/push/pull up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work overtime, holidays, weekends, if necessary.
• Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment.
• Required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) including safety glasses, hearing protection, hairnets, beard nets (if applicable), gloves, and steel toe shoes correctly.