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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 Chaska, Minnesota is known as the "best small town in Minnesota" with a highly rated school system and home of the PGA Tournament in 2018! As our community grows, we strive to preserve the small town atmosphere. Minutes away from beautiful lakes, major highways, shopping malls and the Twin Cities, it is the perfect location to work!. Our location produces a variety of potato products. For over 100 years, the Michael Foods family of businesses has leveraged quality ingredients and innovative processes to offer the finest products and solutions to our customers and to food-loving consumers.
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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
• Minimal travel required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
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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.
• Bilingual 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
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The pay range for this position is $70,386 - $98,541 per year.