Processing Supervisor - Second Shift

Post Holdings Inc.; Lansing (IL); On-site; USD 72,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods Inc. in Lansing, IL, is seeking a Processing Supervisor to lead a team responsible for production and sanitation, ensuring safety, quality, and cost targets. The role emphasizes people management, data-driven decision making, and training to raise standards.

This full-time position requires a bachelor’s degree and 2–3 years supervisory experience in food manufacturing, with willingness to work overtime when needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• 2-3 years supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry.
• Excellent communication and team-building skills.
• Ability to work overtime or weekends when required.

Responsibilities

• Leads team to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates production and sanitation tasks to meet specs and cost targets.
• Ensures regulatory compliance and maintains quality and safety standards.
• Drives continuous improvement and data-driven decision making.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Team Building

Bi-lingual

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

2-3 years supervisory experience in food industry

Job description

Brand: Michael Foods Inc.

Categories: Operations Administrative

Locations: Lansing, Illinois

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Remote Eligible: No

Req ID: 32949

Job Description

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

Our plant, located in Lansing, IL, pasteurizes raw eggs to remove harmful bacteria for a more safe product to the foodservice industry.

Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY

The Processing 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 Processing 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 AND 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.
• Adhere to Quality work practices, follow GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• 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.
• 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.).
• Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
• Minimal travel required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

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

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 effectively present information in one-on-one and in group situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats.
• Ability to learn and utilize various technology systems.

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

Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)