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Sanitation Lead

Henke Foods LLC
Saint Paul, MN Part Time
POSTED ON 7/15/2026 CLOSED ON 8/8/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sanitation Lead position at Henke Foods LLC?

Position: Sanitation & Maintenance Lead

Hours: Part Time

Reports To: Plant Manager

Job Summary

This position is responsible for executing, overseeing, and documenting essential sanitation relating to food sanitation, routine janitorial cleaning, light maintenance tasks and preventative maintenance of sanitation and building equipment to maintain a safe and high-quality environment for production. This involves knowledge of production, equipment, and sanitation techniques to ensure that equipment and cleaning equipment is clean, safe and sanitized for production. This position reports directly to the Plant Manager.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibility

Roles/Responsibilities:

General Sanitation

· Ability to disassemble, clean, sanitize and reassemble select equipment as needed

· Ensure all floors, hoods, and select equipment are cleaned and sanitized daily to an acceptable level

· Execute necessary sanitation verification testing/swabbing and resulting documentation

· Perform basic housekeeping, including cleaning floors, walls, ceilings, air vents, lights, and other tasks as called out on the Master Sanitation Schedule

· Ensure daily adherence and documenting of the Master Sanitation Schedule, and other necessary paperwork and data recording relating to Sanitation and Food Safety

· Comply with all company policies, rules & regulations regarding safety, GMP, operational methods and food safety guidelines

· Must report any food safety issues, discrepancies, suggestions and/or complaints to the Plant Manager immediately

· Execute weekly walk through for sanitation projects:

o Assess facility needs for food safety

o Provide work order requests for documentation

· Oversee sanitation consumables inventory through shared leadership initiatives

· Manage the inventory of all chemicals and pertinent cleaning supplies

· Ensure a strong relationship with any/all chemical and cleaning supply suppliers

· Be willing and able to work in any area of the facility (inside and outside) as directed by the Plant Manager

Maintenance Specific Responsibilities

· Ensure select equipment is always in the most Safe and Food Safe condition as possible

Safety and Food Safety Responsibilities

· Ensure GMP’s are being always followed

· Ensure the department appropriately always maintained

· Ensure foreign material and cross contamination elements of the area are properly managed

· Ensure all appropriate OSHA & GMP verification, validations and calibrations are properly filled out at the appropriate frequencies – including daily, weekly, monthly and bi annual items

· Ensure all department paperwork is turned into appropriate Management/Leadership

· Ensure any/all non-conformances are addressed immediately and appropriately

· Report any personal or employee issues and non-conformances to the appropriate leadership immediately

Competencies

· English reading and writing

· Positive attitude and willingness to work as part of a team

· Ability to manage work assignments and duties efficiently

· Performance Management

· Problem Solving

· Results Driven

· Communication Proficiency

· Time Management

· Basic computer skills

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is on their feet most of the shift.

Physical Demands

The Physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

· Talk and hear, Stand, walk, use hands

· Overhead Reaching with arms

· Occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl

· Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

Pay: $18.50 - $23.00 per hour

Work Location: In person

Salary : $19 - $23

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