Pasteurizer Loader

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.

Job Summary: This position has the responsibility to comply with safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation 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, and ensures regulatory compliance. The role is responsible for loading and unloading pasteurizing tanks with product.

Job Responsibilities:

• Keep area around machines being loaded clean and neat.
• Haul out racks and stack, tie, and pick up all material neatly in proper amounts and heights.
• Take care of all eggs stuck to flats.
• Remove empty flats from the flat stacker.
• Dump inedible buckets from machines being loaded after the end of shift clean up.
• Before going to break, clean up entire work area.
• Follow all PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) requirements and safety procedures.
• Follow all GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) “washing hands, etc.” throughout the day.
• Follow all HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) guidelines.
• Responsible for spray down and cleanup of equipment and floor to meet USDA specifications.
• 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.
• Adhere to all safety policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Pay Range: $17.00 to $20.00 per hour.

Job Qualifications:

• Education: No prior experience or training.
• Experience: None required.
• Language
  
  Skills:
  
  Not applicable.
• Mathematical
  
  Skills:
  
  Not applicable.
• 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: None required.
• Other
  
  Skills and Abilities:
  
  
  • Ability to stand on hard surface most of shift.
  • Ability to understand and follow oral instructions.
  • Ability to repeatedly lift and carry 50 lbs.
  • Ability to work in damp, humid atmosphere.
  • Ability to stoop and bend.
  • Ability to work week-ends and holidays on a rotating schedule.
  • Ability to climb and move above, below and into tight spaces.