What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sanitation Technician - 3rd Shift, 6pm-6:00am position at Thrive Foods?
Grow your career into 2026 as Thrive Freeze Dry expands into the largest freeze-dry manufacturer in the world.
Conveniently located in Oak Creek, WI, we are hiring immediately for a full-time Sanitation Team Member position.
- Position: Sanitation Technician
- Location: Ryan Rd & I-94, Oak Creek, WI
- Shift: 3rd Shift – 6pm – 6:30am
- Schedule: Sunday - Wednesday
- Reports to: Supervisor
About Thrive Freeze Dry:
Thrive Foods is a leader in the freeze-dried food industry. As the largest freeze-dried food provider in the United States, Thrive Foods is leading trends in healthy snacking, good for you ingredients and clean label products in growing human food, probiotics, and pet food segments. As a result, Thrive Foods maintains a blue-chip customer list of food service companies, natural food retailers, and well-known brands.
As our company grows so do our dreams. We are team-oriented and committed to safety and food quality and our values are simple. Leading with integrity means we treat people well. In chasing big goals it’s important to do what matters most in order to win together, learning and growing as we do.
Lead with Integrity | Treat People Well | Chase Big Goals | Do What Matters Most | Win Together | Learn & Grow |
Job Summary:
The Production Team Member plays a vital role in getting our product to our customers. The ideal candidate is one who is committed to food safety and quality, looks for improvement and is ready to roll up their sleeves with us.
A Production Team Member will assist in the production of freeze-dried consumable products. This role requires the ability to prepare freeze dried product for finished goods completion which requires lifting, pushing, pulling, and transporting of goods. Thorough understanding of safe food practices and the ability to follow direction is vital. This role is cross trained between the stages of freeze-dried goods, to processing and sorting, to packaging.
Essential Duties:
- Engages in all duties related to the sanitation of the plant. The Sanitation Technician inspects equipment for conformity to federal and state sanitation laws.
- Perform the cleaning of equipment and inspection of all working parts for conformity to federal and state sanitation laws to ensure readiness for production use.
- Responsible to clean work areas in a manner that avoids damage and destruction to our facility. This role will inspect the premises for unsanitary practices and conditions and escalate to management and production personnel regarding sanitation concerns or issues.
- Clean the office areas and any areas inside the building requiring sanitation.
- Recommend changes in equipment, plant layout, lighting, or work practices to improve sanitation standards or purity of the product. In this role, the Sanitation Technician will operate lifting equipment for overhead cleaning including IE Boom lift, scissor lift and forklift.
- Other duties as assigned by management
Requirements Include:
- The ability to test cleaning chemicals for titration strength.
- Forklift certification or the ability to be certified.
- The ability to operate and maintain hand tools for equipment setup, floor scrubbers and buffers is a requirement.
- The ability to read and interpret documents, operation manuals efficiently and communicate effectively is a requirement.
- The ability to read and understand measuring tools such as a tape measure, feeler gauges and micrometers are required.
Work Environment:
The job is performed under frequent temperature variations and in a food manufacturing production environment and unrestricted visual and audio abilities are required for the safety of all employees as is the ability to lift to 40 lbs. Personal protective equipment is required and provided by Thrive Freeze Dry.
FOOD SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:
• Place high priority on food safety, quality, and sanitation by understanding and executing Thrive Food’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures.
• Hold self and others accountable to Thrive Foods food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.
• In the absence of Lead serves as back up to ensure all food safety, quality objectives and SQF system requirements are met.
PRODUCT SAFETY AND QUALITY:
- Place high priority on food safety, quality, and sanitation by understanding and executing Thrive Freeze Dry’s food safety, quality, and sanitation policies and procedures.
- Hold self and others accountable to Thrive Freeze Dry’s food safety, quality, and sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety or quality incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.
- Adheres to and ensures Product Safety and Quality standards are followed.
- Adheres to and ensures GMP’s regarding food contact packaging as it pertains to the employee.
- Adheres to and ensures Thrive’s food safety, product defense standards and quality objectives complies with all SQF system requirements.
Benefits:
We offer a full range of benefits for today, tomorrow and beyond!
Health Insurance: Medical (UMR/United Healthcare Network), Dental (Sunlife), Vision (VSP) (1st of the month after 30 days of employment)
Supplementary Insurance: Company paid life, short and long term disability insurances
Retirement: 401k w/ employer match, up to 4% annual salary
Other Benefits: Safety shoe program, Tuition reimbursement, Employee referral bonus
Thrive Freeze Dry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information on your EEO rights under law, please visit www.EEOC.gov .
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