Back-Up Lead 1st 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.

Our plant, located in Lansing, IL, pasteurizes raw eggs to remove harmful bacteria for a more safe product to the food service industry.

• Assist in training of all processing and production personnel in the assigned department.
• Help provide a safe work environment for all personnel and ensure that all production complies with the food safety standards established by Michael Foods, Inc.
• Work with department lead and supervisors to maintain sanitation standards of the facility.
• Coordinate with processors the time the system will be ready to run, the lines that will be running, the amount and type of product that will be run, and matching line sterilization to meet the production requirements set by the company.
• Coordinate the need and arrival of raw materials for each line ensuring that all supply needs are always met.
• Maintain an effective working relationship between all members of the department and other areas.
• Verify that all operator downtime, temperature charts, and any other documentation needed is accurate and complete before it is turned into the shift supervisor to maintain accurate records for the company and USDA.
• Communicate with co‑workers at shift change to insure accurate information is transferred between shifts regarding production, scheduling, etc.
• Continually monitor the lines for quality product and notify all appropriate personnel if a discrepancy is found.
• Monitor rework inventories and coordinate rework activity to ensure product is reworked before it becomes inedible.
• Follow all PPE requirements and safety procedures.
• Follow all GMP procedures, washing hands, etc., throughout the day.
• Follow all HACCP guidelines.
• Follow all SOP and SSOP procedures and keep all records updated.
• Follow all USDA regulations and guidelines.
• Report and fill out work orders on maintenance issues as they relate to productivity, food safety, quality, and human safety to maintenance.
• Encourage suggestions from employees which will improve productivity, quality, and/or control cost of production.
• Maintain regular and consistent attendance.
• Adhere to safe 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, food quality or personnel safety.
• Responsible for Food Safety and Food Quality of MFI products.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Education: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent.
• Experience: One to three months related lead experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language
  
  Skills:
  
  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.
• Mathematical
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: 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.
• Licenses, Certificates, Registrations: N/A
• Other
  
  Skills and Abilities:
  
  Ability to operate specific equipment or tools; skill in working with computers and experience with spreadsheet and word‑processing software; familiarity with special terminology such as legal, medical, or scientific terms; fluency in a language other than English.

The pay range for this position is $18.00 to $21.60 per hour.