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McCain Foods

Sanitation Lead - Shift

McCain Foods, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, 54914

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Position Title:

Sanitation Lead - D Crew - Shift

Position Type:

Regular - Full-Time

Grade:

6A

Requisition ID:

40063

About The Role 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.

What you’ll be doing At our Appleton, WI plant, we have two parts of our sanitation team: a core team and a shift team. The Sanitation Lead - Shift will help lead the shift team by assisting with supervision, training and scheduling the team. The shift sanitation team is hands‑on every day, moving equipment and dispensing cleaning chemicals to ensure our facility (inside and outside) and appetizer manufacturing equipment is cleaned and sanitized to the highest standards. Your day‑to‑day may consist of:

Monitoring daily plant operations, prioritizing tasks, allocating duties to sanitation staff, and ensuring all processes and cleaning equipment are functioning correctly.

Communicating effectively with production supervisors to coordinate cleaning schedules and addressing any issues; completing required documentation accurately.

Training new and transferred employees on sanitation procedures and equipment use, maintaining training materials, and keeping training records updated.

Ordering necessary sanitation supplies, supporting conflict resolution, participating in all mandatory training, and adhering to safety protocols and company guidelines.

This role works in a manufacturing environment with potential exposure to loud noises, strong odors, temperature fluctuations, moving machinery, wet or humid conditions, hazardous chemicals, high or confined areas, extreme temperatures, and vibration throughout various facility areas. It also regularly engages in prolonged standing, walking, communicating, and sensory tasks throughout each shift, while frequently handling objects, climbing, balancing, and performing various physical movements such as stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling as part of job duties. The use of close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus is required.

Available Shift(s):

PM Shift (6PM-6AM) on a 2‑2‑3 schedule

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

High school diploma or equivalent

2+ years of experience working in an industrial sanitation role with 1+ years of leadership experience required

Experience working with a forklift, boom lift, and high lift is beneficial – ability to work at various heights required

FSPCA certification strongly preferred

Maintains a continuous learning mindset and adapts quickly to new equipment, processes, and roles.

Demonstrates strong technical ability with a digital‑first approach, embracing new technologies and accurately entering data.

Communicates clearly with all levels of the organization, follows instructions (written/oral/diagram form), and completes necessary documentation independently in English.

Pays close attention to detail, prioritizing product quality, safety, and accurate record‑keeping.

Physically capable of meeting job requirements and consistently brings a positive, team‑focused attitude to work.

Demonstrates adaptability, technical proficiency, analytical ability, and problem‑solving skills while working independently or collaboratively to ensure effective and logical decision‑making in diverse situations.

Demonstrates the physical capability to bend frequently and lift heavy objects (up to 50 pounds), alongside proficiency in safely operating Powered Industrial to support workplace operations.

Benefits of the role

Competitive hourly rate

Insurance day ONE of employment

401k match up to 6%

PTO, holiday pay, wellness days

Maternity/paternity leave

Set schedule/overtime allowances

Pay for skills program/education reimbursement

Job Family:

Manufacturing

Location(s):

United States of America, Wisconsin, Appleton

Company:

McCain Foods USA, Inc.

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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.

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