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 Elizabeth, New Jersey has a proud history dating back to the founding our our Country. Elizabeth is a great American City.

Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY:

The mechanic position is responsible for monitoring and repairing all equipment safely and as necessary within budget constraints.

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. Ensure that all policies, procedures, and activities related to food safety & quality are followed and complied with uniformly to reduce product and process variability.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Team player who aligns and upholds our values: Teamwork, Accountability, Innovation and Continuous Improvement and passion for customer and consumers

• Attendance is essential to perform duties
• Attend and actively participate in safety meetings and trainings
• Always ensure regulatory compliance
• Perform all corrective, preventative, and predictive maintenance for the building, equipment, and material handling equipment, to ensure productivity and equipment efficiency
• Identify and design any process improvements that can be made as it relates to the equipment and their utilization
• Evaluate the maintenance budget by predicting expenses and evaluating projects for savings
• Monitor all equipment to ensure that all safety operating procedures are followed
• Use all hoists, hand tools, power tools, and testing instruments safely
• Perform duties in all areas including Pneumatics, Sanitary Welding, Plumbing, Industrial Electric Hydraulics, and PLC.
• Must adhere to budget, USDA, OSHA, SQF, and FDA compliance guidelines.
• Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies/procedures and incorporate safety and health in all job duties/tasks
• Adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report any conditions or practices that may adversely affect employee safety or food safety/quality to management immediately
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• One-year certificate from college or technical school or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience
• Experience in a manufacturing industry or similar
• Ability to communicate in both English and Spanish preferred
• Must be well organized, able to plan and prioritize activities, and make decisions related to product quality
• SAP knowledge a plus
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Black Seal License
• Blue Seal License
• Power Industrial Truck Operator's License

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Workers are required to wear proper PPE such as hair nets, ear plugs, and certain areas require earmuffs
• Must be able to work in changing temperatures indoors and outdoors
• Continuous standing
• Occasional bending, sitting, stooping, climbing, pushing, pulling and repetitive hand motion
• Ability to ascend and descend stairs
• Ability to work with chemicals.