Job Details
Sanitation Associates - Currently Hiring for Day and Night Shift!
- 2-2-3 schedule: 2-week cycle
- Week 1: 2 days on / 2 days off / 3 days on
- Week 2: 2 days off / 2 days on / 3 days off
- Shifts: 12 hour shifts
- Day Crew - 6am-6pm
- Night Crew - 6pm-6am
As a Sanitation Associate at Vital Farms, you will work within our state-of-the-art manufacturing and production facility cleaning and sanitizing our facility, materials, and processing equipment. This role at Egg Central Station (ECS) is critical in bridging the gap from local family farms to grocery stores for our consumers. You'll be on your feet during each twelve-hour shift, moving, lifting, loading and working with air-conditioned and sunlight-filled warehouse.
What we bring to the table:
- Day Shift - $20.00 per hour + $3 per hour Night shift differential
- Holiday pay
- Healthcare offered/starting the first day of the month following your start! (medical, vision, dental and life)
- 401K with a 3% company contribution starting day one!
- Paid Time Off with your first paycheck!
- Free Eggs
- Fun team swag
- Biweekly Crew Lunches and crew snacks
What You'll Do (Job Overview):
- Follow all Vital Farms policies, procedures, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP'S) while working in alignment with all regulatory, food safety, quality, and sanitation requirements.
- Report any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
- Operate sanitation equipment and safely handle chemicals.
- Ensure facility cleanliness by cleaning spills, processing areas, entrances, facilities, and break room.
- Support GMP initiatives by cleaning and stocking footbaths and hand washing stations.
- Manage egg washer water changes, run CIP circuits, and assist in cleaning processing equipment.
- Titrate chemicals and ensure appropriate levels on chemical mixing stations dispensers, material washers, and CIP circuits.
- Maintains egg waste accordingly utilizing the Egg Press equipment, in accordance with SOP.
- Regularly audit equipment and supplies and communicate any replacement or reorder needs.
- Operate lab equipment and perform testing in a timely manner to prevent downtime/processing delays.
- Obtain certification to operate a scissor lift or pallet jack
- Help with special projects and other duties as assigned.
What You Bring to the Table
- 1 year of sanitation or manufacturing experience
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow specific instructions.
- Must be able to speak, read and write in English for safety and quality reasons.
- Able to frequently lift and / or move up to 60 pounds.
- Able to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch for extended periods of time.
- Good manual dexterity working with hands to reach, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Able to work safely in an environment where regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
- Able to work safely in an environment when exposed to wet conditions.
- Must have good math and computer skills.
- Able to work without direct supervision.
Who We Are:
Vital Farms, a Certified B Corporation, offers a range of ethically produced foods nationwide. Started on a single farm in Austin, Texas, in 2007, Vital Farms became a national consumer brand that works with over 300 family farms and is the leading U.S. brand of pasture-raised eggs by retail dollar sales. Vital Farms' products, including shell eggs, butter, hard-boiled eggs, and liquid whole eggs, are sold in over 24,000 stores nationwide. Vital Farms' ethics are exemplified by its focus on the humane treatment of farm animals and sustainable farming practices. In addition, as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, Vital Farms prioritizes the long-term benefits of each of its stakeholders, including farmers and suppliers, customers and consumers, communities and the environment, crew members, and stockholders. In short, we exist to improve the lives of people, animals, and our planet through food.
Next Steps: Shortly after you complete your application, you'll receive a follow-up email elaborating on any potential next steps in our process. If you don't immediately receive said follow-up email, we would highly encourage you to check your spam filter!
In order to fulfill Vital Farms mission to "bring ethically produced food to the table," we seek to build teams that leverage diverse perspectives to create a welcoming and innovative environment that is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunities.
To that end, we make employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Vital Farms does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender and gender identity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, marital status, age, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Notification to Agencies: **Vital Farms is not accepting unsolicited third-party recruitment agencies in the hiring process for this role. If you are a potential candidate interested in a role with Vital Farms, please submit an application directly. If you have any questions about the application process or the role itself, please reach out to a member of our Talent Acquisition team at ...@vitalfarms.com .