Quality Tech 2nd Shift

Quality Tech 1 2nd Shift – Michael Foods

Location: Lansing, IL – Our plant pasteurizes raw eggs to remove harmful bacteria, producing safer products for the food service industry.

Business Unit Overview: Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in food processing and distribution, specializing in egg products, refrigerated grocery, and potato products. The company offers exciting opportunities to develop careers, sharpen talents, and make an impact as part of an innovative team.

Pay Range: $18.00 – $21.60 per hour.

• Assumes personal responsibility to insure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone; adheres to all safety policies, procedures, 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; reports to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Performs periodic in‑process quality checks: physical and chemical lab testing, coding, weight, packaging integrity, labeling, temperature, sensory, document review, etc., to verify compliance with customer and MFI specifications and all associated regulations.
• Inspects and samples incoming ingredients, summit ting for internal lab testing as required.
• Assists in drafting, revising, and maintaining plant standard operating procedures.
• Acts as a liaison between Production, Distribution, Sanitation, Maintenance, and the Quality Department.
• Participates in plant food safety/quality inspections, in‑process inspections, mock recalls, label audits, HACCP audits.
• Verifies proper set‑up of production lines at start‑up and shift change—printer set‑up (coding), packaging materials, labeling, quality limits, etc.
• Reviews sanitary condition of production lines prior to start‑up, verifying fillers sterilization limits, performing ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and environmental swab, and following up sanitation procedures after downtime requiring maintenance activity.
• Communicates quality issues with Production and Quality Management and assists in root‑cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions where appropriate.
• Performs investigative environmental swabbing of critical production equipment/areas as a troubleshooting guide.
• Assists in investigations in response to customer concerns or other quality‑related deviations to determine root cause and appropriate corrective actions.
• Assists in the management of quality hold activities, including non‑conforming product inventories.
• Ensures lab equipment, fridges, and thermometers are properly maintained and calibrated.
• Maintains and follows MFI micro‑sample and shelf‑life study programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Education: One‑year certificate from college or technical school or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience: Language skills to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; speak effectively before groups, customers, vendors, or employees.
• Mathematical
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; compute rates, ratios, and percentages; draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Apply common sense to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form; solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Licenses, Certificates, Registrations: Driver’s license.
• Other
  
  Skills and Abilities:
  
  
• Proficient communication skills across various departments.
• Proficient organizational and time‑management skills.
• Basic proficiency using computer programs (MS Office) for collecting and analyzing data, writing procedures and reports.
• Demonstrated proficiency in critical thinking and problem‑solving.
• Ability to participate in cross‑functional teams.
• Data collection, analysis, and reporting skills.
• Basic administrative duties.
• Ability to operate specific equipment or tools.
• Skill in working with computers and experience with spreadsheet and word‑processing software.

Employment type: Full‑time

Seniority level: Not applicable

Industries: Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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