Night Shift Area Operations Lead

Post Holdings Inc.; Minnesota; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. is seeking an Area Supervisor to lead front-line teams in a high-volume production environment in Gaylord, Minnesota. You will coach crews, drive daily execution, and own area performance with 24/7 accountability across shifts.

The role emphasizes safety, training, and continuous improvement through CAPD and loss-elimination initiatives, with extensive on-floor time and a strong focus on meeting plant goals.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Objective Setting
• Creates, develops, and executes strategic plans to hit plant goals and objectives set by the Site.
• Assess performance vs. Plan; Prioritizes top losses for the year and creates plan to deliver plant goals and objectives
• Develop and execute loss analysis, glidepath, and 90-day improvement plans for the area.
• Creates/Maintains visual Check, Act, Plan,Do (CAPD) Board for their area to visualize plan and performance.
• Drive (CAPD) improvement cycles for business results and capability building.
• Lead Team meetings to drive strategy forward
• Owns the budget and delivers year over year improvement for their area.
• Understand and Improve Team Capability
• The (AS) must ensure the right skills and crewing to be flexible across the area as business requires (initiatives, size/pack changes, training, breakdowns, meetings, etc.)
• Ensure the team is trained, qualified and capable of doing their jobs.
• Set clear, comprehensive expectations and provide meaningful, timely feedback about performance. The (AS) should train and coach their people to continuously improve their performance and business results.
• The (AS) is responsible to arrange training and qualification for new team members for their area of responsibility, passing any relevant records along to HR.
• Provide feedback to the site leadership team to ensure relevant support or reward to recognize key contributors in area results.
• Regularly communicate with the team about their performance in 1:1
• Address any individual performance issues within the team via the 1:1 system and HR when needed.
• Identify skill gaps in front line team members
• Trains, disciplines (with advice of HR), and gives timely performance appraisals to current shift leads and front line production teams. Document notable items in personnel file.
• Continuous Improvement of Systems and Results
• Lead/facilitate/participate in continuous improvement events.
• Support loss analysis/elimination. Solve process instability problems.
• Coach necessity and use of Problem Solving Tools
• Drive the improvement in daily execution by setting a personal example and providing daily feedback, coaching and calibration of their team on what is on track and what needs improvement.
• Develop Shift Leaders and relevant team to ensure the area is maintained at base condition and results are on track to deliver the plant goals.
• Possess an in-depth understanding of issues in the area using data analysis and benchmarking within and outside the site to systematically resolve issues and improve results.
• Coach the use of Standard Daily Processes (SDP) to eliminate non-value added work.
• Owns and leads Operator Care work processes and step execution.
• MOS Owner- Sets direction for daily action planning to ensure area performance
• Develops daily plan, focusing on stops reduction, loss elimination, and operator coaching.
• Coach team me

Job description

Michael Foods, Inc. is seeking an Area Supervisor to lead front-line teams in a high-volume production environment in Gaylord, Minnesota. You will coach crews, drive daily execution, and own area performance with 24/7 accountability across shifts.

The role emphasizes safety, training, and continuous improvement through CAPD and loss-elimination initiatives, with extensive on-floor time and a strong focus on meeting plant goals.