
KT Utility Person - Pre-Cooked (1st Shift)
Klingerstown, PAFull-timeSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Utility Person performs quality checks on a specified line, verifies products meet customer specifications, and provides coverage across lines in the Cooked Department. The role includes packing products, checking weights and metal detectors, setting up and troubleshooting packaging machines, and recording maintenance findings. The position is regular full-time and is not remote.
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Full job description
Brand: Michael Foods Inc.
Categories: Operations Production
Locations: Klingerstown, Pennsylvania
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Remote Eligible: No
Req ID: 33253
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 Klingerstown, Pennyslvania known for their ice cream socials at Klingerstown Lutheran Parish, fishing rodeo, and fireman's parade.
Responsibilities
POSITION SUMMARY:
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.
The purpose of the Utility Person is to perform quality checks on a specified line, ensuring that all
product that is packed meets customer specification before it is packed into cases and shipped to the
customer and to help provide coverage on that line. This person helps to ensure that all personnel on
their lines are following company GMP’s and only packing acceptable product. This person is proficient
in all positions and tasks in the department.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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.
- Adhere to Quality work practices, 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 and quality.
-
Ensures regulatory compliance at all times.
-
Must have the ability to pack product at any one of 5 lines or at the ovens in the Cooked
Department.
- The utility person must do weight/quality checks, metal detector checks and corresponding
computer and/or paperwork and enter data in the RedZone Compliance Module.
-
Must have the ability to perform morning start up line checks & perform shut-down procedures.
-
Must be proficient at all machine set up and troubleshooting in the packaging area including tape
machines and box maker.
-
Must assist in break and lunch coverage as needed.
-
Must have the ability to determine if product meets proper specifications or not and inform
supervisor or take corrective action as needed.
- Must have the ability to coach line workers on acceptable versus unacceptable product, helping to
ensure that all product that is packable is put into finished cases, helping to reduce shrink.
- Must have the ability to perform daily and weekly Autonomous Maintenance line walks, recording
motor temperatures and vibrations, basic troubleshooting is required. All findings are recorded in
the iPad.
- Expected to adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary
conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained in order to maintain SQF Level 3
certification. Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food
safety, food quality or personnel safety.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get along
with customers, clients, co-workers and management.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPEREINCE REQUIRED:
-
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent.
-
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to
write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small
group situations.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers,
common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and
interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or
diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized
situations.
- Powered Industrial Truck (PIT) Certification
PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
-
Must have good verbal and communication skills and the ability to work well with others.
-
Must be a self-motivated individual who can work with a minimal amount of supervision
-
Must have good knowledge of the Cooked Department with up to 6 months experience in that
department or the equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform
the essential duties.
-
Must have the ability to safely lift up to 30lbs.
-
Must have the ability to work indoors in a damp changing environment for duration of the shift
-
Ability to travel stairs.
-
Ability to learn and understand cross contamination issues and how to avoid them.
-
Must wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the job
-
Must know customer specifications.
-
Must have the ability to retain knowledge for future use.
-
Ability to operate specific equipment or tools
-
Skill in working with computers and iPads and experience with spreadsheet and word-processing
software.
POSITION SUMMARY:
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.
The purpose of the Utility Person is to perform quality checks on a specified line, ensuring that all
product that is packed meets customer specification before it is packed into cases and shipped to the
customer and to help provide coverage on that line. This person helps to ensure that all personnel on
their lines are following company GMP’s and only packing acceptable product. This person is proficient
in all positions and tasks in the department.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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.
- Adhere to Quality work practices, 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 and quality.
-
Ensures regulatory compliance at all times.
-
Must have the ability to pack product at any one of 5 lines or at the ovens in the Cooked
Department.
- The utility person must do weight/quality checks, metal detector checks and corresponding
computer and/or paperwork and enter data in the RedZone Compliance Module.
-
Must have the ability to perform morning start up line checks & perform shut-down procedures.
-
Must be proficient at all machine set up and troubleshooting in the packaging area including tape
machines and box maker.
-
Must assist in break and lunch coverage as needed.
-
Must have the ability to determine if product meets proper specifications or not and inform
supervisor or take corrective action as needed.
- Must have the ability to coach line workers on acceptable versus unacceptable product, helping to
ensure that all product that is packable is put into finished cases, helping to reduce shrink.
- Must have the ability to perform daily and weekly Autonomous Maintenance line walks, recording
motor temperatures and vibrations, basic troubleshooting is required. All findings are recorded in
the iPad.
- Expected to adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP and HACCP guidelines, maintain sanitary
conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained in order to maintain SQF Level 3
certification. Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food
safety, food quality or personnel safety.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get along
with customers, clients, co-workers and management.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION AND EXPEREINCE REQUIRED:
-
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent.
-
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to
write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small
group situations.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers,
common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and
interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or
diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized
situations.
- Powered Industrial Truck (PIT) Certification
PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
-
Must have good verbal and communication skills and the ability to work well with others.
-
Must be a self-motivated individual who can work with a minimal amount of supervision
-
Must have good knowledge of the Cooked Department with up to 6 months experience in that
department or the equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform
the essential duties.
-
Must have the ability to safely lift up to 30lbs.
-
Must have the ability to work indoors in a damp changing environment for duration of the shift
-
Ability to travel stairs.
-
Ability to learn and understand cross contamination issues and how to avoid them.
-
Must wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the job
-
Must know customer specifications.
-
Must have the ability to retain knowledge for future use.
-
Ability to operate specific equipment or tools
-
Skill in working with computers and iPads and experience with spreadsheet and word-processing
software.
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)
How this job compares
Set against the 2,025 open Production jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$85–127K/yr208 salary ranges
- Pennsylvania median$20–21/hr40 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 91 open Production jobs in Pennsylvania and 2,025 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- Printfly7 open
- ManpowerGroup4 open
- Post Holdings Inc. (this employer)4 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 (619 postings).
- Education
- 120 of the 2,025 open Production jobs (6%) ask for a bachelor's degree 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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