Sanitation Lead

Get in on the ground floor of our new freeze-dry manufacturing facility! Grow your career into 2025 as a key member of our flagship food manufacturing plant as Thrive Freeze Dry expands into one of the largest freeze-dry manufacturers in the world. Conveniently located in Corona CA, we are hiring immediately for a full-time Sanitation Lead position.

Location: 341 N. Delilah St. Corona CA 

Schedule: 3rd Shift, 9:00PM start time 

Reports to: Plant Supervisor

About Thrive Freeze Dry: Thrive Freeze Dry is a leader in the freeze-dried food industry. Headquartered in American Fork, Utah with plant operations throughout North America, South America and Europe, Thrive Freeze Dry is leading trends in healthy snacking, good for you ingredients and clean label products in growing human food, probiotics, and pet food segments. As a result, Thrive Foods maintains a blue-chip customer list of food service companies, natural food retailers, and well-known brands.  

As our company grows so do our dreams.  We are team-oriented and committed to safety and food quality and our values are simple. Leading with integrity means we treat people well.   In chasing big goals it’s important to do what matters most in order to win together, learning and growing as we do.

Thrive Freeze Dry Values: Lead with Integrity, Treat People Well, Chase Big Goals, Do What Matters Most, Win Together, Learn & Grow. 

Job Summary: The Sanitation Lead plays a vital role in delivering high-quality product to our customers to fuel their life’s important moments.  The ideal candidate is one who is committed to food safety and quality, looks for improvement and is ready to roll up their sleeves with us.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities Include: 

• Engages in all duties related to the sanitation of the plant.  
• The Sanitation Lead inspects equipment for conformity to federal and state sanitation laws.  
• Perform the cleaning of equipment and inspection of all working parts for conformity to federal and state sanitation laws to ensure readiness for production use.  
• Responsible to clean work areas in a manner that avoids damage and destruction to our facility.  This role will inspect the premises for unsanitary practices and conditions and escalate to management and production personnel regarding sanitation concerns or issues.   
• Recommend changes in equipment, plant layout, lighting or work practices to improve sanitation standards or purity of the product.
• Operate lifting equipment for overhead cleaning including IE Boom lift, scissor lift and forklift.
• Coach, mentor and develop Sanitation Technicians and Sanitation team members.

 Requirements Include: 

• The ability to test cleaning chemicals for titration strength.   
• Forklift certification or the ability to be certified.  
• The ability to operate and maintain hand tools for equipment setup, floor scrubbers and buffers is a requirement.    
• The ability to read and interpret documents, operation manuals efficiently and communicate effectively is a requirement.  
• The ability to read and understand measuring tools such as a tape measure, feeler gauges and micrometers are required.

Physical Requirements - Must be able to perform the following functions with or without accommodations:

• The usual and customary methods of performing the job's functions require the following physical demands:  
•  frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; frequent stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling; and frequent fine finger dexterity. 
• Generally, the job requires the following percentages of time committed to physical activity:   20% or more sitting, 70% or more walking, and 70% or more standing.
• The job is performed under some temperature variations and in a food manufacturing   production environment. Unrestricted visual and audio abilities are required for the safety of all employees. The ability to lift to 40 lbs. is required.

FOOD SAFETY REQUIREMENTS: 

•  Place high priority on food safety, quality, and sanitation by understanding and executing Thrive Food’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures.
•  Hold self and others accountable to Thrive Foods food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.
•  In the absence of Lead serves as back up to ensure all food safety, quality objectives and SQF system requirements are met.  

Benefits:

• We offer a full range of benefits for today, tomorrow and beyond!
• Health Insurance: Medical (UMR/United Healthcare Network), Dental (Sunlife), Vision (VSP), Health Savings Account (HSA), Employee Assistance Program, (1st of the month after 30 days of employment)
• Supplementary Insurance: Company paid life, short-term and long-term disability insurances, Optional Critical Illness and Critical Accident Insurances
• Retirement: 401k w/ employer match, up to 4% annual salary (1st of the month after 90 days of employment)
• Other Benefits: Weekly Pay, Paid time off, Holidays, Safety shoe program, Tuition reimbursement 

Thrive Freeze Dry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information on your EEO rights under law, please visit www.EEOC.gov .

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