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Packaging Labor - Overnight Shift D

Packaging Labor - Overnight Shift D

Michael Foods Inc.

Norwalk, IA • On-site

$14 - $16.75/hr

Full-time

Posted 6 days ago


Michael Foods rating

7.2

Company rating: 7.2 out of 10

Based on 29 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

197th of 432 rated food and drinks producers


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
Michael Foods, Inc. located in Norwalk, Iowa is a southern suburb in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area. We are known for knowing our neighbors and enjoying a great quality of life! Our location produces high quality precooked egg patties as well as various French Toast products.
Responsibilities
SUMMARY:
The purpose of the packer is to pack finished high-quality frozen egg products in cases according to customer specifications. The packer fills and folds omelets and prepares them for freezing; monitors and picks off defective egg products that do not meet customer specifications. Customers and the public benefit from the work packers do by the high quality, safe product they package.
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.
SCHEDULE:
This position works a 12-hour day shift, working from 6 PM - 6 AM on a 2-2-3 rotation. This is the "D" shift.
Week 1: Work Monday - Tuesday, Off Work Wednesday - Thursday, Work Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Week 2: Off Monday - Tuesday, Work Wednesday - Thursday, Off Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Every other weekend is a 3-day weekend scheduled off work.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Participate in the general good housekeeping and sanitation of the area.Sort, count, and pack frozen egg products according to customer specifications while keeping pace with machinery and the conveyor system.
  • Conduct quality checks on the product and packaging using a computerized system.
  • Fold and inspect the required products.
  • Read scales and check case weights according to customer specifications.
  • Lift and carry up to 30 lbs. safely.
  • Work in teams ensuring that the conveyor system does not back up and become jammed with product.
  • Rotate to different positions during shift.
  • Determine if product meets proper specifications or not and take corrective action as needed.
  • Expected to adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained.
  • Inspect products to verify proper size, shape, and color. May sort out any product damages that occurred during the freezing process or otherwise not conforming to company and customer set standards.
  • Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
  • Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
  • Adhere to Quality work practices, follow all 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.
  • Ensure regulatory compliance at all times.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
  • No prior experience or education required.

PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
  • Ability to read a limited number of two-and three-syllable words in English and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers.
  • Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
  • Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
  • Ability to perform these operations using units of American weight measurement.
  • 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.

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About Michael Foods

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While our Michael Foods name has only been around since 1987, our true origins date all the way back to 1908 on a small family farm in New England. Over the past century, our capabilities have grown into innovative food offerings that reduce food safety risk, naturally extended shelf life and simplify food preparation and processing for foodservice kitchens and food manufacturers alike. Today, Michael Foods is a multi-billion-dollar supplier of foodservice, food ingredient and retail offerings that specializes in value-added eggs, and refrigerated potatoes. What’s our secret recipe? Great people, make real great food. Not only in our farms, facilities and offices across the country, but in the communities where we live and work. Explore more about who we are and how we strive to be First in Food for you by clicking below.

Industry

Food and drink manufacturing

Company size

1,001 - 5,000 Employees

Headquarters location

Minnetonka, MN, US

Year founded

1908