FSQ Supervisor Days - Michael Foods Inc.

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.

Location Description: Michael foods, Inc. located in Chaska, Minnesota is known as the "best small town in Minnesota" with a highly rated school system and home of the PGA Tournament in 2018! As our community grows, we strive to preserve the small town atmosphere. Minutes away from beautiful lakes, major highways, shopping malls and the Twin Cities, it is the perfect location to work!. Our location produces a variety of potato products. For over 100 years, the Michael Foods family of businesses has leveraged quality ingredients and innovative processes to offer the finest products and solutions to our customers and to food-loving consumers. Responsibilities:

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position has the responsibility to always comply with Safety work rules 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. Ensures regulatory Compliance.

This position ensures that the product produced meets the requirements for quality and safety. This is achieved through implementing the Quality Systems and mentoring all departments in the facility.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks. Ensures regulatory compliance.
• Performs inspections of plant, equipment, and parts for cleanliness.
• Supervises employees by scheduling work assignments, hiring, terminating, evaluating performance.
• Trains quality and sanitation personnel in safety practices, GMPs, food safety, and cleaning methods.
• Prepares reports on inspection findings and accidents.
• Leads, coordinates, and trains the personnel performing inspection and testing of ingredients and final products by making sure inspections are done correctly, and inspections are done at the appropriate frequency.
• Studies reports and other documents to identify problems with production and suppliers.
• Collects, evaluates, and sends samples to outside labs for product evaluation.
• Monitors and assists sanitation employees as they clean equipment to ensure proper sanitation.
• Performs food safety inspections to identify potential problems in the production process.
• Swabs environment and product surfaces to identify unsanitary surfaces.
• Maintains inventory by identifying items that are running low and deciding when to order them.
• 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.
• Writes and reviews sanitation standard operating procedures.
• Responsible for plant chemical inventory and ordering
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• 3-5 years of direct supervisory experience.
• Experience in developing documentation, flowcharting, basic quality systems, and training presentations.
• Ability to identify and build permanent solutions to quality problems.
• Knowledge of relevant products, microbiology, and food processing machinery.
• Understand HACCP concepts and maintain bi-annual HACCP certification.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

In order to promote a manufacturing environment that is safe and efficient for both personnel and food, the ability to effectively communicate in basic English (both verbal and written) is required. This includes the ability to speak, read and comprehend safety instructions, rules and warnings for self and others in both normal and emergency situations.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and in group situations. Ability to respond to questions from internal/external customers/vendors at all levels including management.

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 solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, and diagram or schedule form.

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES, REGISTRATIONS:

Examples of licenses, certificates, and registrations required:

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Specific skills and abilities required that are not included in other sections: