Casing Operator - Mornings

Business Unit Description: 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: JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: • Pack-out Station. • Visually inspect product for seal integrity, potato defects, foreign materials, browning, and coding. • Fill boxes with sealed bags in accordance with established quality guidelines for weights and finished good product type. • Communicates with the QA Tech / Packaging lead for upcoming product changeovers. • Adhere to all safety and quality procedures and warrants the safety and quality of products and materials. • Palletizing Station: • Loads finished good product boxes onto pallets according to recognized pallet patterns. • Counts boxes to ensure pallets are stacked properly. • Verifies the printed coding on boxes corresponds with finished good SKU requirements. • Notifies casing operator of material shortfalls. • Casing Operator: • Responsible for the workflow of casing operations. • Communicates with the packaging lead regarding workflow issues. • Utilizes production white board to communicate packaging production schedule. • Communicates with Production Supervisor of product overruns. • Responsible for MIGO’ing finished good inventory into SAP software. • Ensures boxes, tape, ink, labels are readily available for product changeovers. • Also ensures raw materials are properly placed in equipment for processing. • Performs pallet counts of finished good products and verifies accuracy of production paperwork. • Counts and records all raw material waste. • Must be able to operate a forklift and move pallets safely. • Maintains good housekeeping practices in the work area. Keeps area free of debris and clutter. • Adhere to safe work practices, all safety policies and procedures, 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. • Perform other duties as assigned.Qualifications: JOB QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent: The pay range for this position is $16.00 to $19.00 per hour.