What are the responsibilities and job description for the Utility Worker - Waste Water Treatment position at McCain Foods?
Position Title: Utility Worker - Waste Water Treatment
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: 5A
Requisition ID: 43209
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role.
The Sanitation, Waste & Site Services Operator supports essential environmental and facility operations by managing waste streams, maintaining site cleanliness, and operating equipment to ensure safe and efficient site performance. This role plays a key part in supporting plant operations through sanitation, recycling, snow removal, and environmental compliance activities while contributing to McCain’s focus on safety, quality, and operational excellence.
What You’ll Be Doing.
This role is part of the site operations and environmental support team, working closely with plant personnel and other operators to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant facility operations. The position does not have direct supervisory responsibilities but plays a critical role in supporting overall site performance and daily operational continuity.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: - Starting at 23.76 USD hourly Bonus eligibility Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): US - United States of America : Maine : Easton
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: 5A
Requisition ID: 43209
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role.
The Sanitation, Waste & Site Services Operator supports essential environmental and facility operations by managing waste streams, maintaining site cleanliness, and operating equipment to ensure safe and efficient site performance. This role plays a key part in supporting plant operations through sanitation, recycling, snow removal, and environmental compliance activities while contributing to McCain’s focus on safety, quality, and operational excellence.
What You’ll Be Doing.
- Support general waste treatment and screen house operations
- Manage site-wide waste and recycling streams, including collection and transport
- Perform building and yard maintenance tasks, including seasonal snow removal
- Operate heavy equipment such as forklifts, loaders, dump trucks, tractors, and plow trucks in accordance with company policies
- Maintain propane tank inventory and ensure safe handling and transport
- Maintain salt supplies for boilers, ADR systems, and water softeners
- Operate and maintain mud systems, including mud removal from the Mud Hut
- Assist with environmental initiatives and ensure compliance with environmental objectives
- Build strong working relationships with site personnel to ensure seamless service delivery
- Follow McCain Competitive Edge and Lean Manufacturing practices aligned with SQCDP (Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People)
- High school diploma or GED
- Minimum 3 months of related experience and/or training
- Valid State of Maine Class B driver’s license (or ability to obtain) for dump truck and payloader operation
- Ability to obtain McCain Forklift and Pay Loader certifications
- Completion of McCain Operator Training Program
- Ability to pass annual DOT driver physical examination
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to operate equipment such as forklifts, loaders, tractors, and ¾ ton plow trucks
- Strong understanding of safety procedures and willingness to comply with all safety regulations
- Ability to work variable schedules, including overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed
- Strong communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills
- Physical ability to perform demanding tasks, including lifting up to 50 lbs and working in outdoor environments
This role is part of the site operations and environmental support team, working closely with plant personnel and other operators to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant facility operations. The position does not have direct supervisory responsibilities but plays a critical role in supporting overall site performance and daily operational continuity.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: - Starting at 23.76 USD hourly Bonus eligibility Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support, including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefits details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): US - United States of America : Maine : Easton
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.