Micro Lab Technician - Day Shift

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.

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.

Hours: 6:00am-2:30pm Monday-Friday (Rotational Weekends)

Position Summary: This position is responsible for media preparation, including all quality controls performed and documented in the lab such as media PH, sterilizer records, water bath and incubation temperatures on the defined frequency, lab supplies (ordering and inventory), and general lab procedures such as transfers and slating of raw materials. The position has the responsibility to comply with safety work rules at all times and 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.

• Media preparation (preparing pre‑poured plates).
• Supplies inventory, receiving and ordering (SAP knowledge).
• Perform temperature checks on incubators and water baths daily, sterility testing and documentation of the sterilizer, media pH, pH meter calibration, thermometer calibration.
• Media transfers for rapid essays.
• Plating procedures on raw materials.
• Perform rapid tests (gene-trak).
• Plating procedures on swabs and sponges (includes plating and streaking).
• Data entry on computer.
• Temp abuse procedures.
• Analyze microbiological results for out‑of‑specification conditions and hold or release product for shipment in the inventory management system based on those results.
• 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 safe work practices, follow GMPs, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
• Responsible for food safety and food quality of MFI products.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

Required:

None required.

Preferred Education,

Experience and Skills:

• One year certificate from college or technical school or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; ability to write routine reports and correspondence; ability to speak effectively before groups, customers/vendors or employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rates, ratios, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Skill in working with computers and experience with spreadsheet and word‑processing software.

Pay range: $19.82 to $28.73 per hour.