Processing Supervisor Overnight

Michael Foods; Gaylord (MN); On-site; USD 72,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. in Gaylord, Minnesota, is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead a team responsible for manufacturing and sanitation. The role emphasizes safety, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement in a food-processing environment.

The supervisor will manage people, ensure GMP compliance, and coordinate with maintenance and other departments. Occasional overtime and minimal travel are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience is required.
• 2–3 years supervisory experience is preferred, especially in the food industry, or a college degree in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Leads and develops a team to ensure safety, quality, and productivity in production and sanitation.
• Monitors operations costs and ensures adherence to GMPs, safety, and food safety requirements.
• Drives continuous improvement through data analysis, training, and cross‑department collaboration.
• Maintains records and prepares reports on personnel, downtime, and production metrics.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Bilingual

Communication

Team building

Report writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Engineering degree considered

Job description

Business Unit Overview

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

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.

Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY: The Production Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products ensuring adherence to safety, quality, quantity specifications, and cost.

Key skills include people management, operational and sanitation knowledge, training ability, developing expectations, driving results with data, and follow-through.

The Production Supervisor ensures compliance with all company and regulatory processes, including but not limited to Safety, Food Safety, Human Resources, and job-specific requirements. They work to continuously improve production and sanitation best practices through training, standards development, data analysis, escalations, and reporting.

Duties RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development. Ensures a safe and healthy workplace.
• Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control.
• Adheres to safe work practices, GMPs, and maintains product quality. Reports any conditions affecting food safety, quality, or personnel safety to management.
• Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
• Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
• Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services.
• Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs.
• Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
• Participates on plant safety team.
• Always ensures regulatory compliance.
• Cooperates with all departments to ensure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
• Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
• Maintains consistent communications and participates in and leads meetings as required.
• Leads and/or participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develops self and team members' skill sets to continuously improve work standards and performance.
• Drives individual accountability and ownership of results. Fosters accountability for direct reports in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
• Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e. timekeeping, downtime records, absentee records, etc.).
• Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
• Minimal travel required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• 2–3 years supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry. Or a college degree in engineering.

Skills And Abilities

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team building skills.
• Ability to prioritize and follow directions with little/no supervision.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to perform multi-functional tasks.
• Must be able to work overtime and/or weekends when required.
• Bi-lingual is a plus
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats.

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The pay range for this position is $72,498 - $101,497 per year.