Building & Groundskeeper

A Typical Day

The Building & Groundskeeper is responsible for effective operations and maintenance of the buildings and grounds assets of Hilmar Cheese Company.  

Job Responsibilities

• Use basic power, welding tools, forklift, articulating booms, etc. to perform work.
• Comfortable with direct customer interface across entire HCC organization in a professional and positive manner.
• Ensure all safety procedures are followed according to HCC safety policies.
• Create work orders using SAP
• Active participation and ownership in your training and development program and associated activities, classes and events, which will be held before, during, after shifts and during scheduled days off.  
• Help coach and train teammates and participate in on the job, buddy training.
• Place high priority on food safety and sanitation by understanding and executing HCC’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures. 
• Hold self and others accountable to HCC’s food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates. 
• Participate in food safety and sanitation root cause analysis and improvement activities when required.  
• Prioritize safety above all other job duties by having a safety first approach at all times. 
• Report any safety issues, observations, opportunities to your teams and follow up.  
• Use a zero turn mower and perform tractor work.
• Sprinkler management around admin and water rec irrigation pond.
• Able to be on call for snow removal and other duties as needed.

What You Will Need

• English skills must be proficient to understand, read, write and speak English
• High School diploma or GED from an accredited institution 
• Must be able to work 8-hour variable shifts, including weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed. 
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Software such as Outlook 
• Ability to lift up to 60lbs

What Will Put You Ahead

• 1 year SAP experience 
• 2 years of dairy manufacturing experience
   

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:

• Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
• Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within their respective areas.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.