**Job Title: Sanitation Associate** **Job Description** Looking for Sanitation Associates who can help maintain the integrity of product safety and quality in a food manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for maintaining an elevated level of cleanliness and sanitation. The shift is from 2PM to 10:30PM, Monday to Friday. **Responsibilities** + Maintain work area and equipment to ensure clean, sanitary, and orderly conditions. + Perform general industrial cleaning in production areas. + Operate cleaning equipment to maintain floors throughout the building and production areas. + Ensure there are no spills or raw materials residue on floors. + Empty all waste containers and replace bags. + Clean and disinfect washrooms, locker rooms, and lunchrooms. + Wash and dust walls, equipment, tanks, ceiling light fixtures, and ceiling vents to remove dirt, spilled ingredients, grease, oil, or any other foreign matter. + Report any defective materials, spills, or issues that will take longer than normal to clean. + Occasionally fill pails for production or assist in other production utility operator activities. + Perform other duties as requested, assigned, or directed. **Essential Skills** + Experience in production, food manufacturing, machine operation, sanitation, and janitorial work. + Knowledge of GMP, industrial cleaning, and chemical handling. + At least one year of experience in industrial sanitation or janitorial work. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Ability to stand, walk for prolonged periods of time, and climb stairs. + Regularly required to bend, stoop, and reach. + Ability to lift more than 50 lbs. on an occasional basis. + Experience working in a food manufacturing production environment, exposed to noise and temperature variations. + Must wear uniform, steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, hearing protection, hair net, beard net, and safety gear specific to work activity when on the plant floor. + Pacemaker not permitted around magnets. **Why Work Here?** Employees can purchase wholesale chocolate at a discount, including a 10-pound chocolate bar for $24. Receive free chocolate on your birthday. Employees are encouraged to express interest in internal career opportunities, with expectations for promotion or job role changes driven by proficiency and performance in the current role. There is potential to move into other production positions or group lead roles. **Work Environment** Work in a food manufacturing environment with exposure to noise and temperature variations (hot and cold). The facility has a hot side for manufacturing operations and a cold side for chocolate cooling/packaging operations. Compliance with all legislated and relevant laws and regulations for safety and quality, including GMP, HACCP, and Allergen policies, is mandatory. Safety gear, including uniform, steel-toed shoes, safety glasses, hearing protection, hair net, and beard net, must be worn when on the plant floor. **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Union City, California. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.