Summary: Cleans and sterilizes machinery, utensils, and equipment used to process or store products such as chemicals, paint, food, or beverages by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (Other duties may be assigned):

• Turns valves to drain machines or tanks and disconnects pipes.
• Sprays machines, tanks, and conveyors with water to loosen and remove dirt or other foreign matter.
• Scrubs machines, tanks, tables, pans, bowls, compartments, and conveyors.
• Rinses articles with water.
• Scrubs floors, walls and equipment.
• Connects hoses and lines to pump and starts pump to circulate cleaning and sterilizing solution through hoses and lines.
• Scrubs interior of disconnected pipes, valves, spigots, gauges, and meters.
• Mixes cleaning solutions.
• Tests samples of cleaning solutions from mixing tanks.
• Operates high pressure wash down equipment.
• Responsible for product safety, legality, regulatory compliance and product quality.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience: Satisfy and meet job requirements for Group H (Clean-up person-2)

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies :

Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: None required

Other Qualifications: Individual must be available to work any sanitation shift. Individual must be available to work 7 days a week during the processing season. Overtime work probable. “Fit for duty” testing will be required.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.