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JP Sanitation Tech Development (3rd Shift)

Post Holdings Inc.

Elizabeth, NJFull-time$17.14–19.38/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$17.14–19.38/hr
Location
Elizabeth, NJ
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Power Industrial Truck Operator's License, required

Job overview

The Sanitation Tech is responsible for cleaning equipment throughout the building and outdoors. The role removes product from equipment, transports inedible bins, disassembles and reassembles equipment, and cleans and sanitizes surfaces and equipment. It also requires following food safety, quality, and workplace safety procedures. The position is regular full-time in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with a stated pay range of $17.14 to $19.38 per hour.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Numeracy, nice to haveReading Comprehension, nice to haveWritten and Verbal Communication, nice to haveFollowing Instructions, nice to haveMultitasking, requiredStanding, nice to haveLifting, nice to haveBending, nice to haveReaching, nice to haveRepetitive Hand Motion, nice to havePushing and Pulling, nice to haveClimbing Stairs, nice to haveOdor Tolerance, required

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED, nice to havePower Industrial Truck Operator's License, required

Full job description

Brand: Michael Foods Inc.

Categories: Operations Production

Locations: Elizabeth, New Jersey

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Remote Eligible: No

Req ID: 34524

Job Description

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food .

Location Description

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Elizabeth, New Jersey has a proud history dating back to the founding our our Country. Elizabeth is a great American City.

Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY :

The Sanitation Tech position is responsible for the cleanliness of all equipment throughout the building as well as outdoors.

This position has the responsibility to comply with safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce safety as a core value. Ensure that all policies, procedures, and activities related to food safety & quality are followed and complied with uniformly to reduce product and process variability.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Team player who aligns and upholds our values: Teamwork, Accountability, Innovation and Continuous Improvement and passion for customer and consumers

  • Attendance is essential to perform duties

  • Attend and actively participate in safety meetings and trainings

  • Always ensure regulatory compliance

  • Remove remaining product out of all equipment and place in inedible bins

  • Transport filled inedible bins to specified storage areas

  • Disassemble all equipment and conveyors and reassemble after sanitation is completed

  • Clean and dry all food contact and non-food contact surfaces using a predetermined solution of chemical substance/water and applicable sanitation tools

  • Perform CIP for all necessary equipment (as needed)

  • Clean and sanitize the door foamers and replenish the same

  • HAZCOM training

  • Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies/procedures and incorporate safety and health in all job duties/tasks

  • Adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report any conditions or practices that may adversely affect employee safety or food safety/quality to management immediately

  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

  • High school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent years of experience preferred

  • Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.

  • Ability to read a limited number of two-and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

  • Workers are required to wear proper PPE such as hair nets, ear plugs, and certain areas require earmuffs

  • Must be able to complete multiple tasks in a time-constrained environment

  • Occasional standing, lifting, bending, reaching above shoulders, repetitive hand motion, pulling and pushing

  • Ability to ascend and descend stairs

  • Must be able to tolerate strong odor

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES, REGISTRATIONS:

  • Power Industrial Truck Operator’s License

The pay range for this position is $17.14 to $19.38 per hour.

POSITION SUMMARY :

The Sanitation Tech position is responsible for the cleanliness of all equipment throughout the building as well as outdoors.

This position has the responsibility to comply with safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce safety as a core value. Ensure that all policies, procedures, and activities related to food safety & quality are followed and complied with uniformly to reduce product and process variability.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Team player who aligns and upholds our values: Teamwork, Accountability, Innovation and Continuous Improvement and passion for customer and consumers

  • Attendance is essential to perform duties

  • Attend and actively participate in safety meetings and trainings

  • Always ensure regulatory compliance

  • Remove remaining product out of all equipment and place in inedible bins

  • Transport filled inedible bins to specified storage areas

  • Disassemble all equipment and conveyors and reassemble after sanitation is completed

  • Clean and dry all food contact and non-food contact surfaces using a predetermined solution of chemical substance/water and applicable sanitation tools

  • Perform CIP for all necessary equipment (as needed)

  • Clean and sanitize the door foamers and replenish the same

  • HAZCOM training

  • Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies/procedures and incorporate safety and health in all job duties/tasks

  • Adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report any conditions or practices that may adversely affect employee safety or food safety/quality to management immediately

  • Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

  • High school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent years of experience preferred

  • Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.

  • Ability to read a limited number of two-and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

  • Workers are required to wear proper PPE such as hair nets, ear plugs, and certain areas require earmuffs

  • Must be able to complete multiple tasks in a time-constrained environment

  • Occasional standing, lifting, bending, reaching above shoulders, repetitive hand motion, pulling and pushing

  • Ability to ascend and descend stairs

  • Must be able to tolerate strong odor

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES, REGISTRATIONS:

  • Power Industrial Truck Operator’s License

Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

How this job compares

Set against the 1,504 open Production jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17.14–19.38/hr
  • US median$20–22/hr694 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $18.26/hr, is 15% below the US median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Production hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 21 open Production jobs in New Jersey and 1,504 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New Jersey
Experience
Production postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (482 postings).
Education
78 of the 1,504 open Production jobs (5%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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