Processing Supervisor 3rd

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a market leader in the food processing and distribution industry, operating in egg products, refrigerated grocery, and potato products.

Northfield, Minn. is home to two Post Consumer Brands manufacturing plants, the Campbell Mill and Ames Mill, two distribution centers, and more than 750 team members.

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

• 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 resolves operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
• Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as needed to achieve 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 control costs of production.
• Participates on plant safety team.
• Ensures regulatory compliance.
• Cooperates with all departments to maintain coordinated work relationships.
• Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
• Maintains consistent communications 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, fostering accountability for direct reports in safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.
• Keeps accurate and up‑to‑date records (timekeeping, downtime, absentee records, etc.).
• Is accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone and incorporates safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adheres to quality work practices, follows GMPs, maintains sanitary conditions, and ensures product quality is maintained.
• Will work overtime or weekends when required.
• Requires minimal travel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team‑building skills.
• Ability to prioritize and follow directions with little or no supervision.
• Strong organizational skills and the 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 present information effectively in one‑on‑one and group situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats.

Pay range for this position is $70,386 - $98,541 per year.