Production Supervisor Overnights

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 where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents, and make an impact. Join our team and be part of an innovative organization that’s First in Food.

This role is based in Gaylord, Minnesota—Minnesota's Healthy Heartland. Gaylord is located in south-central Minnesota, about an hour west of the Twin Cities and 35 minutes from Mankato, Hutchinson, and New Ulm. As the county seat, Gaylord serves as the hub of Sibley County. Our facility produces liquid egg, hard-cooked egg, and precooked egg products such as scrambled eggs, patties, and omelets.

About the role

The Production Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. This role involves planning, directing, and coordinating work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products while ensuring adherence to safety, quality, quantity specifications, and cost. Key skills include people management, operational and sanitation knowledge, training ability, developing expectations, driving results with data, and follow-through.

The Production Supervisor ensures compliance with all company and regulatory processes, including Safety, Food Safety, Human Resources, and job-specific requirements. They work to continuously improve production and sanitation best practices through training, standards development, data analysis, escalations, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development.
• Ensures a safe and healthy workplace.
• Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control.
• Adheres to safe work practices, GMPs, and maintains product quality. Reports any conditions affecting food safety, quality, or personnel safety to management.
• Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
• Recognizes and resolves operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
• Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve desired production, sanitation, safety, and warehouse services.
• Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs.
• Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety, and/or control costs of production.
• Participates on the plant safety team.
• Ensures regulatory compliance.
• Cooperates with all departments to maintain coordinated work relationships.
• Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
• Maintains consistent communications and participates in or leads meetings as required.
• Leads and/or participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develops self and team members' skill sets to continuously improve work standards and performance.
• Drives individual accountability and ownership of results. Fosters accountability for direct reports in safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.
• Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (e.g., timekeeping, downtime, absentee records).
• Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adheres to all safety policies and procedures.
• Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
• Minimal travel required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• 2–3 years of supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry, or a college degree in engineering.

Skills

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills.
• Ability to prioritize and follow directions with little or no supervision.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to perform multi-functional tasks.
• Must be able to work overtime and/or weekends when required.
• Bilingual is a plus.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $70,386 – $98,541 per year.