Production Supervisor - Second Shift

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 Lenox, Iowa and often called the "Pearl of the Prairie" is where you can find small town living, focused on family and friends, with big city amenities not far from reach in Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City. Located in southwest Iowa, Taylor county, with a population of around 1400, the Lenox area reaches far beyond the city limits with beautiful and productive fields of corn, beans, and other croplands. Lenox holds an amazing four day Rodeo every July and is home to a beautiful 36-9 hole golf course, several fishing and boating lakes, great area hunting, a beautiful city park with swimming pool, and many picnic parks. The MFI location in Lenox produces primarily pre-cooked egg patties. With its friendly atmosphere, safe environment, and progressive spirit, Lenox is a great place to live, work, play, and raise a family.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Production Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products 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 but not limited to 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.   DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: •Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development. Ensures a safe and healthy workplace. •Maintains 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. •Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks •Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices. •Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations. •Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of 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 plant safety team. •Ensures regulatory compliance. •Cooperates with all departments to ensure a coordinated work relationship always exists. •Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner. •Maintains consistent communications and participates in and 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 the areas of safety, quality, delivery,