As a Sanitation Lead, you will...
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 use your knowledge and understanding of sanitation policies and procedures to help guide our Sanitation Associates. You will also be on your feet during each twelve-hour shift, moving, lifting, loading and working with air-conditioned and sunlight-filled warehouse. Finding the right place to grow your career isn’t (over) easy! But here at Vital Farms, we hope you will join our crew and help us change the world 108 square feet at a time!
A day as a Sanitation Lead at Egg Central Station
- Organize workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedule
- Set daily / weekly / monthly objectives and communicate to employees
- Lead and develop sanitation crew assignments, creating equipment and sanitation process ownership
- Work directly with crewmembers, supervisors, and managers to ensure sanitary conditions and standards are upheld
- Evaluate job performance of crew members
- Ensure all personnel safety and food safety procedures are followed rigorously
- Drive continuous improvement of waste elimination
- Anticipate problems and make quick decisions under time pressure
- Must be able to understand production process and be able to perform tasks related to maintaining sanitary conditions in the facility and be able to coach others in their work
- Lead daily direction setting meetings when required
- Provide verbal and/or written recommendations to supervisor concerning crew performance, problems, or issues
What you bring to the table:
- Must be able to speak, read and write in English for safety and food quality reasons
- 1 year of work experience in a sanitation manufacturing environment
- You’re able to frequently lift and/or move up to 60lbs
- You’re committed to following all personal safety requirements rigorously.
- Be flexible and execute other duties and sanitation tasks required.
- Basic math skills (adding, subtracting, basic division)
- Able to work safely in an environment when exposed to wet conditions
- Able to operate pallet jack
- Proven experience in leadership / supervisory roles
- Strong people skills and ability to deal with all levels of employee and management groups
- Demonstrate strong accountability, consistency, and follow-through skills
- Follow all Vital Farm’s policies, procedures and Good Manufacturing Practices
- You give a sh*t – You believe in acting like an owner and making Vital Farms a place to be proud of
- You raise the standards – You know growth can be hard, but you strive to improve yourself and others each day
- You can walk in someone else’s boots – You seek to understand other’s viewpoints and think that you get to better answers by sitting on the same side of the table
- You don’t walk on eggshells – You’re not afraid to leave the bullsh*t behind and have honest conversations
