
Special Relief 2
Owatonna, MNFull-time$21.96/hrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Special Relief team member supports Lakeside Foods’ production operations by performing varied department roles. The work includes bean blanching and soaking, material movement, cooker operations, sauce preparation, equipment monitoring, and maintaining activity logs. The role requires a high school diploma or equivalent, computer literacy, and forklift operating experience. The position is on-site in Owatonna, Minnesota, and offers a stated pay rate of $21.96 per hour.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Benefits
Full job description
Job Duties
At Lakeside Foods and our family of companies, we're committed to providing wholesome foods to enrich people's lives through food. We are a culture that pursues our vision of growth and innovation with passion, confidence, and commitment. We are strongest together - valuing collaborative contribution, transparency and new ideas to enable change and growth. We are committed to an inclusive and respectful environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance, and there's a seat at the table for you.
Become One of Our Valued Production Team Members:
Here at Lakeside Foods, the Special Relief team member is a very important part of our production operations. Utility team members are respected team members, performing a variety of roles within the department. If you are a driven and organized individual with a can-do attitude, we want to talk with you.
What You'll Get
Pay Range
$21.96 Per Hour
Benefits
Medical, Dental and Vision
HSA/FSA
Life Insurance
Short- and Long-Term Disability
Accident, Hospital, and Critical Illness
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness programs
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays
401(k) plan with company match
Profit Sharing
Additional
Preventative Maintenance Season (November - May): Four 10's Monday - Thursday
Stable work environment with a growing company
Schedules to maintain work/life balance
Prescription safety glasses & safety shoe reimbursement
Advancement Opportunities
Paid onsite and offsite training
Varied tasks from day-to day
An Employer that works hard to ensure your safety on the job
Positive work environment with family spirit
What You'll Do:
Ensure the safety procedures are followed
Incorporate good manufacturing practices established at the location
Required to follow established HACCP procedures developed at the location
Responsible for the correct blanch of presoaked beans for process.
Moves materials to and from blanch / soak area within a storage facility using material handling equipment.
Ability to maintain daily activity log sheets
Cooker Operations
Sauce Preparation
Demonstrate good lift truck skills, dewatering, and blancher equipment in an efficient manner.
Detects malfunction of equipment and inform appropriate personnel.
Become knowledgeable of all dry bean standards to ensure finished product grades.
Monitors and adjust soaked bean volume to meet daily production time requirements
Responsible for the proper mixing procedures and concentrations of soaking additives (CALC)
Performs other duties as assigned or requested by manager.
What You'll Bring:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions
Computer literacy
Forklift operating experience
Through individual and team efforts, enthusiastically work toward the continuous improvement of his/her job, work area, department, and Lakeside as a whole.
Fully participate in TAL by "living" Lakeside's Standards of Conduct and being an active member of operational and project teams. By action and work, clearly and visibly demonstrate the spirit of teamwork, cooperation and respect for others in all business transactions and exchanges.
Where You'll Work:
WELCOME TO OWATONNA
Located one hour south of Minneapolis, Owatonna is rich in history. From Historic Downtown shops, restaurants and outdoor concerts, to over 700 acres of parklands and walkways, there is something for everyone in Owatonna
Lakeside Foods and our family of companies welcomes people of all backgrounds and the varied ideas they bring to the workplace. Being an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer is part of our heritage and culture. We recruit, hire and promote employees based on qualifications and merit, without regard to race, religion, age, gender, disability, marital or veteran status. Lakeside Foods participates in E-Verify.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities
An Equal Opportunity Employer
M/F/D/V
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Experience Required
None
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
Yes
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
No
Physical Required
Yes
Drug Test Required
Yes
Compensation
$11.41 / Hourly
Postal Code
55060
Job Type
Full Time
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
1403003700
Job Benefits
Not specified
How this job compares
Set against the 2,028 open Production jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$21.96/hr
- Minnesota median$21–22/hr65 hourly ranges
- US median$20–22/hr921 hourly ranges
This rate, $21.96/hr, is close to the Minnesota median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Production hourly ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 78 open Production jobs in Minnesota and 2,028 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Savers | Value Village9 open
- Balchem4 open
- ADM3 open
- Experience
- Production postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (623 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 957 of the 2,028 open Production jobs (47%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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