What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sanitation/Custodian position at Agile Cold Storage?
Reporting Relationship:
- Reports to: Plant Manager
- Supervises: None
Primary Responsibility: Keeps warehouse in clean and orderly condition. Tends dock areas, freezer areas, and associate break areas. Ensures sanitation of these work areas.
Essential Functions:
- Clean warehouse with hand brooms, power scrubbers, sweepers and vacuum cleaners to meet company standards.
- Remove all refuse from building and office daily, ensuring that trashcans are empty and clean.
- Clean break rooms and work areas.
- Repair damage to pallets.
- Relocate, move, and adjust office furniture, as necessary.
- Ensure that pest control systems are operating effectively and report any problems to supervisor.
- Remove ice and snow from pedestrian walkways and parking lots as seasonally required.
- Keep company grounds free of litter and debris.
- Work safely. Report hazards to shift supervisor.
- Wash and/or sweep insides of trailers and/or railcars.
- Other duties as requested.
Experience and Skills
Qualifications and Requirements:
- High school diploma or General Education Degree (GED) plus three months related experience or training or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Ability to follow written or verbal instructions
- Ability to solve routine problems
- Ability to understand safety rules, procedure manuals, and diagrams
Physical Requirements: While performing the essential functions of this job, the associate is frequently required to use hands to handle objects; talk or hear; stand; walk; and reach with hands and arms. The associate is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and taste or smell. The associate is frequently exposed to extreme cold. The noise level in the warehouse is usually moderate.
