Sanitation Associate
Company: Americold
Location: Burlington
Posted on: January 20, 2023
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Job Description:
Overview
Americold provides temperature-controlled warehousing and
transportation to food producers, restaurants, schools and retail
outlets such as grocery stores. We're proud to provide an essential
link in the food industry supply chain and to help put food on
tables around the world.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates
temperature-controlled warehouses around the world. We have over
16,000 associates and offer a wide variety of career opportunities
- from warehouse forklift operators and supervisors to accounting,
administration, business development, customer support,
engineering, transportation, and technology solutions
positions.
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibility: Under general supervision, cleans and
sanitizes food handling, packaging, storage, and processing
facilities and equipment, to meet quality control, food safety, and
bacterial control standards. Ensures sanitation, cleanliness, and
order of warehouse, dock areas, buildings, break rooms, bathrooms,
yard/ground, parking lots, etc.Essential Functions: • Use chemical
agents, high-pressure hoses, and other sanitizing/cleaning
equipment and supplies to clean and sanitize facility work areas
and equipment • Prepare cleaning chemicals, sanitizers, and
chemical concentrations • Handle and store chemical agents and
cleaning and sanitizing equipment and supplies to meet applicable
standards • Manage chemical accidents • Keep company grounds free
of litter, debris, and hazards • Observe all safety requirements
and report hazards to shift supervisor. • Comply with applicable
standards, such as OSHA, FDA, USDA, and SQF standards • May be
required to ensure that pest control systems are operating
effectively and report any problems to supervisor. • May be
required to wash and/or sweep insides of trailers and/or railcars.
• Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience: • High school diploma or general
education degree (GED) preferred, or at least one year related work
experience. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Ability to follow
written or verbal instructions. • Ability to solve routine
problems. • Ability to understand and follow all safety rules,
procedure manuals, and diagrams. • Knowledge of cleaning equipment
• Knowledge of safe use of cleaning chemicals • Strong
communication skills • Knowledge of cleaning procedures and
janitorial techniques • Ability to work independently • May work
overtime, evenings, or weekends in order to complete work or to
attend meetings, as directed and authorized by management • Must be
able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving
instructions: they must get along with co-workers without
exhibiting behavioral extremes; perform work activities requiring
reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with
others; and respond appropriately to criticism from a supervisor. •
May be required to use cleaning equipment such as steamers, floor
scrubbers and carpet cleaners.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.Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.
Keywords: Americold, Bellingham , Sanitation Associate, Professions , Burlington, Washington
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