Rack Wash- 2nd Shift (2861)

Position Summary: This role disassembles, clean, sanitizes, elements and equipment needed in food processing. 

Responsibilities/ Duties: Include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Minimum expectations include but are not limited to:

• Wash smoking racks, sticks, plastic barrels, and on occasion small parts daily.
• Operate garbage and cardboard compactor.
• Keep the smoking area adequately supplies with clean racks.
• Prevent accumulation of dirty equipment outside washroom area.
• Occasionally check Cut Down and compactor areas to prevent accumulation of garbage/ cardboard.
• Take responsibility in your work area to produce a safe and quality food product. Reporting all food safety related problems to your supervisor, manager, or to the QA department to initiate immediate action. 

Supervisory Responsibility: No.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Licenses, Certifications, Etc.:

• Required education required requires less than a high school degree; no prior experience needed.
• The ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with tens and hundreds.
• Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
• Ability to read and write English. 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.

Physical Requirements

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, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/ or move more than 100 pounds and occasionally lift and/ or move up to 35 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 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 exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet, humid, refrigerated, or freezer conditions consistent with working in a food processing facility. The noise level in this work environment is very loud. The employee is regularly exposed to extreme cold and vibration. Company provides rubber gloves, metal gloves, cooler coats, sleeve protectors, aprons, bump caps, hair and beard nets, and ear plugs.