Packaging Operator - days

Feeding the world is what we do – how we do it is unique. We are not your textbook consumer packaged goods company. While others may be slow to make change happen, Post continuously drives both inorganic and organic growth. Our history spans over 100 years with brands that transcend generations like Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal, Bob Evans, Kibbles 'n Bits, Egg Beaters, and Peter Pan peanut butter. Our foodservice and ingredient businesses supply other products you love for brands, restaurants, and stores. We operate more than 55 offices and manufacturing sites with approximately 13,000 employees. Over the past 13 years, Post has made 28+ acquisitions and reached $8.2 billion in net sales in fiscal 2025. Post Holdings, Inc. is a Fortune 500® company headquartered in Brentwood, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, fostering a casual professional atmosphere that encourages collaboration and innovation.

Michael Foods, Inc. in Gaylord, Minnesota produces liquid egg, hardcook egg, and precooked egg products such as scrambled eggs, patties, and omelets. Gaylord is located in south central Minnesota about an hour west of the Twin Cities and 35 minutes from Mankato, Hutchinson, and New Ulm.

Responsibilities

To ensure a high-quality product is being packaged at all times.

• Maintains all tray packers and ensures proper operations (loading trays, maintaining proper glue volume, etc.)
• Maintains video jet to ensure they are properly cleaned, adequate liquid is available, correct information is coded, and print is clear and readable at all times
• Monitors shrink-wrap machine and adds film as required
• Fill in for other Packaging machine operators for breaks and when on vacations
• Monitor date on master shipper for legibility and take corrective actions when necessary
• Set-up of equipment and material for a production run
• Maintains a clean, sanitary, safe, productive work area
• Fosters open communications and a good attitude toward work and fellow employees
• Maintains regular and consistent attendance
• Adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions, and ensure product quality is maintained
• Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality, or personnel safety
• Perform Sanitation procedures in accordance with department and food safety standards (sometimes for the duration of your shift)
• Run, clean, conduct preventive maintenance, troubleshoot extended run fillers (e.g., Elopack Fillers/Capers Scholle)
• Navigate operating system on tablets to conduct required quality and performance checks
• Follow instructions for ingredient mixing
• Calculate mathematical equations, figures, and amounts including proportions, percentages, fractions, and ratios
• Responsible for Food Safety and Food Quality of MFI products
• Performs other similar duties and responsibilities as requested
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• One to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education 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 apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in oral form
• Ability to deal with problems involving one concrete variable in standardized situations
• Basic computer knowledge and skills

Pay

$21.93 to $27.54 per hour

Schedule

6:00 AM – 6:00 PM (12-hour day shifts)