Packaging Operator Night shift

About the Role

This position ensures a high quality product is being packaged at all times in our Gaylord, Minnesota facility, which produces liquid egg, hard-cooked egg, and precooked egg products such as scrambled eggs, patties, and omelets.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Fills in for other Packaging machine operators during breaks and vacations.
• Monitors dates on master shipper for legibility and takes corrective actions when necessary.
• Sets up equipment and material for production runs.
• Maintains a clean, sanitary, safe, and productive work area.
• Fosters open communication and a positive attitude toward work and fellow employees.
• Ensures regular and consistent attendance.
• Adheres to safe work practices, follows GMPs, maintains sanitary conditions, and ensures product quality is maintained. Reports any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality, or personnel safety to management.
• Performs sanitation procedures in accordance with department and food safety standards (sometimes for the duration of the shift).
• Runs, cleans, conducts preventive maintenance, and troubleshoots extended run fillers (e.g., Elopack Fillers/Capers Scholle).
• Navigates operating systems on tablets to conduct required quality and performance checks.
• Follows instructions for ingredient mixing.
• Calculates mathematical equations, figures, and amounts, including proportions, percentages, fractions, and ratios.
• Ensures food safety and food quality of MFI products.
• Performs other similar duties and responsibilities as requested.

Qualifications

• One to three months of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and 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

The pay range for this position is $21.93 to $27.54 per hour.

Schedule

12-hour day shifts from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM.