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**Brand:** Michael Foods Inc.

**Categories:** Operations Production

**Locations:** Gaylord, Minnesota

**Position Type:** Regular Full-Time

**Remote Eligible:** No

**Req ID:** 29367

Job Description

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 Gaylord, Minnesota is 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 is the "Hub of Sibley County." Our location produces liquid egg, hardcook egg, and precooked egg such as scrambled, patties and omelets.

Responsibilities

SUMMARY** **:

The Utilities Maintenance Operator L3 (UMOL3) provides both maintenance and reliability services within the plant, executing with excellence and assisting with critical water/gas/air systems asset health improvement efforts. The UMOL3 will ensure results while partnering with the plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The UMOL3 focus responsibilities are assistance, development, and executional excellence of facility water/gas/air systems safe operation and preventive and corrective maintenance programs. Other duties will include technical troubleshooting, assisting with equipment installation, adjustments, startups, and process improvement projects. They will promote, execute, mentor, and coach excellence in preventive and corrective maintenance practices. The UMOL3 will carry and keep current any regulatory required utilities licensure (Operator Level) and actively participate in compliance activities. The UMOL3 will actively participate in the plant PSM program, always ensuring regulatory compliance. Candidates must be a self-starter willing to accept maintenance and process responsibility and KPI results. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times 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. This role must be available to work scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

*Shift: This is a 6:00pm-6:00pm 12 hour shift at the Michael Foods Gaylord facility. *

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

+ Actively participate with water/gas/air systems maintenance/operations team members and tasks to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.

+ Develop, implement, and champion Precision Maintenance ® techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met

+ Identify, develop, and implement critical water/gas/air systems maintenance and performance improvement projects

+ Work with Corporate Reliability Team to develop, implement, and review real time condition assessment data for all critical water/gas/air systems equipment

+ Actively participate in critical water/gas/air systems training for maintenance/operations personnel

+ Actively participate in quality assurance and reliability procedures for critical water/gas/air systems spares and parts

+ Actively participate in quality commissioning procedures for critical rebuilt or new water/gas/air systems equipment

+ Work with vendors in addressing critical water/gas/air systems issues identified through root cause and condition-based maintenance programs

+ Actively participate and assist craftsman during critical water/gas/air systems maintenance assignments

+ Lead technical water/gas/air systems troubleshooting tasks while assisting other plant personnel in a teaching environment

+ Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support water/gas/air systems reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.

+ Keep accurate and up-to-date records (i.e., SAP data, critical equipment, regulatory documentation etc..).

+ Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.

+ Actively holds and sustains regulatory required licensure related to water/gas/air systems (Operator Level) and performs required duties to statute expectations. Understands regional code to an operator level and demonstrates accordingly

+ Actively participates in the plant PSM program always ensuring regulatory compliance.

+ Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.

+ Leads plant emergency response team

+ Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors. 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.

+ Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports on any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.

+ Always ensures required regulatory compliance.

+ Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

+ High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent

+ Boiler license needed is a Minnesota State 2 nd Class Engineer Grade B or higher. If not, employee must obtain this license within 1.5 years of employment with MFI

+ Associate’s degree, two-year technical certificate, and / or a relevant combination of experience which demonstrates utilities maintenance operations technical and leadership aptitude.

+ Demonstrated leadership experience preferred

+ 3 to 5 years of experience as a utility’s maintenance operator with an emphasis on steam or refrigeration preferred

+ Trained and competent in the equivalent of MFI UMOL1 & UMOL2 skills preferred

+ Boiler Shift Operator license or boiler/ammonia equivalent certification required

+ Trained in regional utilities regulatory code to an operator’s level preferred

+ E&I troubleshooting experience preferred

+ Understanding of mechanical, piping, and/or electrical schematics and blueprints including equipment specific diagrams preferred

+ Prior experience in SAP preferred

+ Ability to interact with all levels of the organization

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills

+ Excellent administrative and follow-up skills to achieve successful maintenance and repair programs.

+ Grade A: High pressure steam (>15PSI) AND steam turbine experience or Grade B: High pressure steam (>15PSI) experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The pay range for this position is $31.00 to $41.25 per hour.

Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)