What are the responsibilities and job description for the Food Sanitation Technician position at Golden State Foods?
Overview
POSITION SUMMARY:
Ensure overall sanitation of the Liquid Products Operations department adheres to food safety guidelines.
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Adheres to safety, food safety, quality and legal compliance.
- Perform all work in accordance with environmental, health and safety standards, rules, regulations and practices of the facility.
- Must be able to pass training/certifications as required for qualifications.
- Responsible for the overall sanitation of the Liquid Product Operations Department involving dry cleaning, rinsing, sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, etc.
- Ability to break down LPO processing equipment and re-assemble equipment.
- Ability to wash, scrub, and clean equipment using chemicals.
- Ensure equipment is cleaned to pass pre-op inspections and swabs.
- Observe and analyze equipment performance and report any problems to your supervisor.
- Document completed work as required by the supervisor.
- Compliance with all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Clean In Place (CIP) Food sanitation experience required.
- Food manufacturing sanitation experience required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- None.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to use effective problem solving skills.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:
- Ability to use mathematical functions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in accordance with production paperwork.
- Ability to perform these operations using units of weight measurement, volume, and distance.
PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ACTIVITIES:
- Disassemble and re-assemble equipment in congested areas and awkward positions.
- Hose down machines, conveyors, floors, etc.
- Climb stairs and ladders.
- Ability to visually differentiate items of color, up close and in the distance.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment and/or clothing.
- Stand/walk 8 or more hours per day.
- Constantly bend, reach, twist/turn, talk/hear and taste/smell.
- Constantly use eye/hand and eye/hand/foot coordination to use tools and operate machinery.
- Frequently squat and grip/grasp buckets, hoses and brushes.
- Frequently handle/finger and fine motor tasks to remove equipment, plastic wrap, tools and operate CIP program.
- Frequently lift less than 5 lbs from floor to overhead and carry 100 feet.
- Occasionally kneel/crawl and climb stairs/ladders.
- Occasionally lift up to 100 lbs from floor to waist.
- Occasionally carry up to 100 lbs 25 feet.
- Occasionally carry up to 50 lbs 100 feet.
- Push carts of chemicals requiring 30 lbs of force 50 feet.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.
ENVIRONMENTAL/ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS:
- Constantly work in damp, wet, humid and slippery environments.
- Constantly work near moving equipment with fumes or airborne debris.
- Constantly work with toxic or caustic chemicals.
- Constantly work in extreme heat/cold (55-110 degrees).
- Constantly work in high noise levels requiring hearing protection.
- Frequently work in high places.
MACHINES/TOOLS/EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE:
- Bump cap, hair net, safety glasses, hearing protection, and uniform.
- Nitrile gloves, plastic apron, and plastic sleeves.
- Cut resistant gloves.
- Pouch machine, conveyors and clean-in-place (CIP) system.
- Food safety knife and small hand tools.
- Water hose.
- Chemicals.
- Scour pad, brushes, buckets, mops, etc
