Sanitation Operator

Role overview

Lamb Weston EMEA is hiring a Sanitation Operator for the Processing department in Wisbech, England. This is a full-time onsite position on 12-hour shifts that rotate between days and nights. The salary is £30,750 per year.

The main aim of the role is to keep production areas and the processing line clean and compliant so operations can run safely and efficiently.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness across the processing zone, including the line, walkways, and the area from the PEF to the EQ belt.
• Accurately complete the cleaning duty sign-off sheet.
• Follow all applicable health and safety rules, environmental standards, and GMP requirements.
• Take personal responsibility for safe working practices and the safety of people nearby through behavioural-based safety principles.
• Perform sanitation work as needed, including shutdown-related cleaning tasks.
• Stay at your assigned station until formally relieved at shift handover.
• Provide practical on-the-job guidance, support, and training to colleagues when required.
• Escalate issues to a supervisor or manager promptly.
• Handle any additional reasonable tasks assigned by your supervisor or manager.

Performance measures

• Quality and foreign material complaints.
• GMP compliance.
• Downtime.
• Behavioural Based Safety performance.
• Line rates and recovery, including optical clean performance.

Qualifications and experience

• GCSEs in Maths and English, or an equivalent qualification.
• Training in Lamb Weston chemicals, health and safety, GMP, and RPPT.
• Previous experience in a manufacturing or factory setting.
• Background in cleaning or sanitation work.

Company values

• Integrity: consistently doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
• Inclusion: valuing differences and creating a workplace where everyone feels safe being themselves.
• Empowerment: thinking and acting with an ownership mindset.
• Teamwork: seeing the broader picture and working together to achieve more.
• Drive for results: pushing for better methods and raising standards.

Additional information

Department: Processing.

Reports to: Process Supervisor.

The role focuses on maintaining production-area cleanliness and supporting hygiene standards throughout the processing line.