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Sanitation Lead

Dairy Farmers of America

Fort Morgan, COJob$27/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$27/hr
Location
Fort Morgan, CO
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Sanitation Lead supports the Operations Team by maintaining sanitary production areas and equipment, handling cleaning chemicals, and helping ensure food safety and product quality. The role includes coordinating shift tasks, training new employees, verifying sanitation work, managing chemical inventory, and supporting compliance and continuous improvement. The schedule may include day or night shifts, 12-hour shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SanitationIndustrial Chemical HandlingClean-in-Place OperationsEquipment OperationEquipment MaintenanceFood SafetySanitation VerificationChemical Inventory ManagementChemical Concentration VerificationChemical ApplicationSanitation TroubleshootingCleaning Process OptimizationEnvironmental MonitoringPersonal Protective Equipment Inspection

Qualifications

High School Diploma or Equivalent4+ Years Sanitation Experience or LeadershipCertification or License

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Job Description

$2000 Sign On Bonus

Safely make and deliver a quality product right the first time that meet or exceeds company and customer expectations. Perform as a member of the Operations Team. Perform tasks required to work safely around manufacturing equipment; work safely in handling industrial cleaning chemicals; unload tankers, run, shutdown, and CIP the dryer, evaporator, and all associated equipment; and run and clean packaging equipment. Perform minor equipment maintenance. Adhere to all GMP, HACCP, safety, regulatory, and plant policies and procedures. Promote safety, maintain a sanitary food environment, and ensure that only the highest quality product is made. Work with facility leadership to engage in professional development in a learning organization. Work day or night shifts, 12-hour shift schedules including weekends and holidays, and overtime as needed.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

  • Communicate the daily schedule at start of shift with the production team, detailing the work requirements of the day and delegating or participating to successfully accomplish the daily tasks

  • Assist with onboarding and training for new employees

  • Ensure completion of general housekeeping duties and Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS) tasks and record keeping

  • Proactively communicate sanitation or related production or equipment issues to supervisor; look for continuous improvement/process improvement opportunities

  • Perform cleaning procedures required by the MSS and other required duties to maintain assigned areas and equipment sanitary and clean

  • Ensure all are appropriately cleaned: floor drains, hand wash sinks, overheads, production trash cans, equipment ledges, etc.

  • Assist with clean-in-place (CIP) validations, inventory counting, and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) review and development

  • Verify completion and effectiveness of sanitation activities to support food safety and product quality requirements

  • Support compliance with SQF, FDA, USDA, PMO, GMP, and DFA food safety requirements

  • Participate in environmental monitoring investigations and corrective actions when sanitation-related findings occur

  • Manage sanitation chemical inventory and usage

  • Verify proper chemical concentrations and application methods

  • Work with chemical suppliers to troubleshoot sanitation issues and optimize cleaning processes

  • Coordinate chemical trials and validate effectiveness

  • Complete, maintain, and review daily and weekly area cleanliness and other reports

  • Ensure all chemical containers have proper and legible labels on them

  • Inspect personal protective equipment (PPE) used for cleaning and report or replace any damaged equipment

  • Complete special cleaning projects

  • Maintain safe working conditions for employees and compliance with all state and federal regulations regarding health and safety issues

Requirements

Education and Experience

  • High school diploma or equivalent

  • 4 to 6 years of sanitation experience or 4+ years of experience with demonstrated leadership attributes preferred

  • Certification and/or License – may be required during course of employment

Compensation Details :

  • The starting rate is $27.00, but increases eligible over time.

  • Sign on bonus may be available.

  • This position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, AD&D, long term disability, short term disability, 401k and flex spending/HSA benefits.

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disabled/Veterans

Pay Range 27.00

How this job compares

Set against the 10,652 open Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$27/hr
  • Colorado median$24–28/hr90 hourly ranges
  • US median$21–25/hr2,017 hourly ranges

This rate, $27/hr, is close to the Colorado median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the middle half of Operations hourly ranges in Colorado.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 235 open Operations jobs in Colorado and 10,652 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Colorado
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (6,646 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 5,243 of the 10,652 open Operations jobs (49%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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