Sanitation Technician - 2nd Shift

Durham · On-site

About this role

Job Summary:

The Sanitation Technician I supports Facilities & Maintenance by maintaining clean, safe, organized, and production-ready manufacturing, warehouse, dock, waste-handling, and common areas. This role performs routine sanitation, trash removal, floor care, inspections, and assigned cleanup tasks while
following safety, housekeeping, and 5S expectations.

Minimum Qualifications: (Education, Experience, Knowledge, and Skills):

  • High School Diploma or equivalent required.
  • Manufacturing, industrial sanitation, warehouse housekeeping, custodial, or related experience preferred.
  • Ability to follow sanitation procedures, plant rules, PPE requirements, EHS expectations, and housekeeping standards.
  • Ability to complete assigned tasks safely, accurately, and with limited supervision.
  • Basic communication skills, including phone, text, email, and work-order or task-tracking systems as required.
  • Ability to operate or learn sanitation equipment including manual/riding floor scrubbers, sweepers, vacuums, and related cleaning tools.
  • Forklift certification preferred, or ability to obtain if required.
  • Strong attention to detail, dependability, time management, and willingness to support changing priorities.
  • Ability to lift up to 45 lbs. and perform repetitive physical tasks including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, pushing, pulling, sweeping, mopping, and climbing ladders.
  • Must be onsite and able to work flexible shifts, overtime, weekends, or special cleanup schedules as business needs require.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Maintain clean, safe, organized, and production-ready conditions in assigned manufacturing, warehouse, dock, common, exterior, and waste-handling areas.
  • Perform daily sanitation tasks including trash removal, recycling support, sweeping, mopping, floor scrubbing, debris removal, and assigned cleanup requests.
  • Operate, clean, and report issues with sanitation equipment and cleaning tools.
  • Maintain cleanliness around dumpsters, roll-off containers, scrap areas, docks, aisles, restrooms, break areas, and pedestrian paths.
  • Assist with loading, staging, moving, and disposing of approved waste streams including scrap wood, metal, cardboard, pallets, packaging, and general debris.
  • Conduct routine area checks and report safety, housekeeping, spill, waste, pest, odor, supply, equipment, or facility appearance concerns.
  • Support 5S, audits, plant tours, customer visits, special projects, event preparation, and facility appearance improvements as directed.
  • Follow all PPE, chemical handling, forklift, pedestrian safety, dock safety, spill response, waste handling, and general plant safety requirements.
  • Collaborate with maintenance, production, warehouse, contractors, vendors, and leadership to support daily operations.
  • Perform other Facilities & Maintenance duties as assigned.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

  • Limited local travel may be required.
  • Must be able to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while maintaining safe work practices.
  • Must be able to lift up to 45 lbs. and perform repetitive physical tasks throughout the shift.
  • Requires routine standing, walking, and working around manufacturing, warehouse, dock, waste-handling, and exterior areas while wearing required PPE.
  • May be exposed to dust, debris, noise, moving equipment, temperature changes, outdoor conditions, cleaning chemicals, and active production environments.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

  • Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.
  • Frequently stand, walk, pull, bend and lift.
  • Exposure to weather, noise intensity level, exposure to toxic or caustic
    chemicals, wet and/or humid, vibration, proximity to moving mechanical parts.

About Us

PowerSecure, a Southern Company subsidiary, is a leading provider of innovative energy solutions to electric utilities and their industrial, institutional, and commercial customers.

Join Our Power Team!

We invest in high-value and cost-effective benefits for our employees. Our benefits package includes:

  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage
  • Competitive pay and a matching 401 (k) plan
  • Vacation, Company Holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO- personal and sick days)
  • Flexible spending accounts/Health savings account
  • Wellness Incentive Programs
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement

PowerSecure is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Company at a glance

PowerSecure, a Southern Company subsidiary, is a leading provider of innovative energy solutions to electric utilities and their industrial, institutional, and commercial customers. PowerSecure provides energy solutions in the areas of distributed energy resources and energy efficiency.

Distributed energy resource solutions include Interactive Distributed Generation® (iDG®), solar energy, fuel cells, energy storage and microgrid solutions. PowerSecure is a pioneer in developing distributed power systems and integration of distributed energy resources in a sophisticated microgrid, including the ability to:
-Forecast electricity demand and optimize the deployment of the systems.
-Provide utilities and their commercial and industrial customers with dedicated and reliable distributed energy resources.
-Provide customers with the most resilient power in the industry.
-Create multiple value streams to the utility and its customers through distributed energy resource management utilizing PowerSecure’s PowerControl 24/7/365 monitoring framework.

The company’s energy efficiency products and services include energy efficient lighting solutions that utilize LED technologies to improve lighting quality and the design, installation, and maintenance of energy conservation measures.

Team Size501-1,000 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryElectrical Equipment Manufacturing
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Top Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Vacation
  • Company holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Health savings account
  • Wellness incentive programs
  • Employee referral program
  • Tuition reimbursement

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