Lead Packaging Operator - Night Shift

Michael Foods; Gaylord (MN); On-site; USD 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. in Gaylord, Minnesota is seeking a Packaging Lead to assist the shift supervisor in managing the Packaging Department. The role emphasizes safety, food safety, and quality compliance with USDA standards.

The position involves directing packaging operators, coordinating line readiness, and maintaining records. 12-hour shifts from 6:00pm to 6:30am, with pay range $25.50–$30.60 per hour, reflecting experience and performance.

Qualifications

• Lead experience or training in a packaging or manufacturing setting.
• Ability to read safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedures manuals.
• Fluency in a language other than English is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist the shift supervisor in managing the Packaging Department.
• Direct packaging operators and utility staff to organize time during setup, overs, and run time.
• Monitor packaging lines to ensure quality product and legible codes meeting USDA standards.
• Coordinate with processors on run timing, line readiness, and production requirements.
• Direct sanitation and GMP activities to ensure USDA and company standards are met.
• Assist with training of personnel and maintain required logs and reports.

Skills

Leadership

Safety compliance

Quality control

Documentation

Tools

Tablet proficiency

MS Office

Job description

Location Description

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Gaylord, Minnesota is Minnesota's Healthy Heartland! Gaylord is located in south central Minnesota about an hour west of the Twin Cities and 35 minutes from Mankato, Hutchinson, and New Ulm. As the County Seat, Gaylord is the "Hub of Sibley County." Our location produces liquid egg, hardcook egg, and precooked egg such as scrambled, patties and omelets.

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

Responsibilities

• Shift: 6:00pm-6:30am 12 hour shifts.*

Position Summary

This position is responsible for assisting the shift supervisor in the managing of the Packaging Department.

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. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Gives work direction to the packaging operators and utility people, to best organize their time

during set up, charge overs and run time to ensure that everything is done accurately, quickly, and safely.

• Monitor each packaging line to ensure good quality product is being produced and all

appropriate codes are legible to meet company and USDA quality and labeling standards.

• Coordinates with the processors the time that the system will be ready to run, the lines that

will be running, the amount and type of product that will be run and matching and line sterilization to meet the production requirements set by the company.

• Direct the packaging personnel in all sanitation and GMP activities to insure that company and

USDA standards are met at all times.

• Coordinate the need and arrival of packaging materials for each line insuring that all supply

needs are always meet.

• Verify that all operator down time, temperature charts and any other documentation needed is

accurate and complete before it is turned into the shift supervisor to maintain accurate records for the company and USDA.

• Assist the supervisor in the training of all personnel and fill in at any position to meet the

Production Requirements Set By The Company. Communicate with co-workers at shift change to insure accurate information is transferred between shifts regarding production, scheduling, etc. Prepare written reports and maintain assigned logs, records, and other documentation required by the company and USDA Monitor rework inventories and coordinate rework activity to ensure product is reworked before it becomes inedible. Run, clean, conduct preventive maintenance, troubleshoot extended run fillers, i.e.: Elopack Fillers/Capers Scholle. Perform Sanitation procedures in accordance with department and food safety standards (sometimes for the duration of your shift). Ability to navigate operating system on tablets in order to conduct required quality and performance checks Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups, or employees of the organization. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in oral form. Ability to deal with problems involving one concrete variable in standardized situations. Ability to operate specific equipment or tools Skill in working with computers and experience with spreadsheet and word-processing software. Familiarity with special terminology such as legal, medical, or scientific terms Fluency in a language other than English Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPEREINCE REQUIRED:

• One to three months related lead experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Education, Experience And Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

• Ability to speak effectively before groups, or employees of the organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in oral form.

• Ability to deal with problems involving one concrete variable in standardized situations.

• Ability to operate specific equipment or tools.

• Skill in working with computers and experience with spreadsheet and word-processing software.

• Familiarity with special terminology such as legal, medical, or scientific terms.

• Fluency in a language other than English.

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The pay range for this position is $25.50 to $30.60 per hour.