
Production Supervisor - Second Shift
Lansing, ILFull-time$72–101K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Processing Supervisor oversees a team completing production and sanitation tasks, coordinating work and resources for food manufacturing while meeting safety, quality, quantity, and cost expectations. The role leads personnel development and continuous improvement, maintains regulatory and company-process compliance, and supports operational performance through training, data analysis, communication, and follow-through.
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Full job description
Brand: Michael Foods Inc.
Categories: Operations Administrative
Locations: Lansing, Illinois
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Remote Eligible: No
Req ID: 32949
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
Our plant, located in Lansing, IL, pasteurizes raw eggs to remove harmful bacteria for a more safe product to the foodservice industry.
Responsibilities
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Processing Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products ensuring adherence to safety, quality, quantity specifications, and cost.
Key skills include people management, operational and sanitation knowledge, training ability, developing expectations, driving results with data, and follow-through. The Processing Supervisor ensures compliance with all company and regulatory processes, including but not limited to Safety, Food Safety, Human Resources, and job-specific requirements. They work to continuously improve production and sanitation best practices through training, standards development, data analysis, escalations, and reporting.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development. Ensures a safe and healthy workplace.
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Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control.
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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.
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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.
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Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
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Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
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Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services.
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Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs.
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Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
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Participates on plant safety team.
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Always ensures regulatory compliance.
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Cooperates with all departments to ensure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
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Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
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Maintains consistent communications and participates in and leads meetings as required.
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Leads and/or participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
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Develops self and team members' skill sets to continuously improve work standards and performance.
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Drives individual accountability and ownership of results. Fosters accountability for direct reports in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
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Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e. timekeeping, downtime records, absentee records, etc.).
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Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
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Minimal travel required.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
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2- 3 years supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
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Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team building skills.
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Ability to prioritize and follow directions with little/no supervision.
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Strong organizational skills and ability to perform multi-functional tasks.
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Must be able to work overtime and/or weekends when required.
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Bi-lingual is a plus
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Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
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Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and in group situations.
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Ability to solve practical problems.
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Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats.
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Ability to learn and utilize various technology systems.
#firstinfood
The pay range for this position is $72,498 - $101,497 per year.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Processing Supervisor oversees a team responsible for completing production and sanitation tasks. The role involves planning, directing, and coordinating the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products ensuring adherence to safety, quality, quantity specifications, and cost.
Key skills include people management, operational and sanitation knowledge, training ability, developing expectations, driving results with data, and follow-through. The Processing Supervisor ensures compliance with all company and regulatory processes, including but not limited to Safety, Food Safety, Human Resources, and job-specific requirements. They work to continuously improve production and sanitation best practices through training, standards development, data analysis, escalations, and reporting.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
-
Leads team members to support safety, food safety, operations, sanitation, and personnel development. Ensures a safe and healthy workplace.
-
Keeps management informed about operational, quality, safety issues, employee concerns, and production cost control.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
-
Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems to minimize their impact on operations.
-
Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation, and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services.
-
Responsible for ingredient, packaging usage, and all other department costs.
-
Encourages suggestions from employees to improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
-
Participates on plant safety team.
-
Always ensures regulatory compliance.
-
Cooperates with all departments to ensure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
-
Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
-
Maintains consistent communications and participates in and leads meetings as required.
-
Leads and/or participates in continuous improvement initiatives.
-
Develops self and team members' skill sets to continuously improve work standards and performance.
-
Drives individual accountability and ownership of results. Fosters accountability for direct reports in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and productivity
-
Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e. timekeeping, downtime records, absentee records, etc.).
-
Willing to work overtime or weekends when required.
-
Minimal travel required.
-
Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
-
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
-
2- 3 years supervisory experience, preferably in the food industry.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
-
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team building skills.
-
Ability to prioritize and follow directions with little/no supervision.
-
Strong organizational skills and ability to perform multi-functional tasks.
-
Must be able to work overtime and/or weekends when required.
-
Bi-lingual is a plus
-
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
-
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and in group situations.
-
Ability to solve practical problems.
-
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in various formats.
-
Ability to learn and utilize various technology systems.
#firstinfood
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 1,901 open Production Supervisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$72–101K/yr
- Illinois median$70–94K/yr49 salary ranges
- US median$73–100K/yr730 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $87K, is 6% above the Illinois median midpoint ($82K) — in the middle half of Production Supervisor salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 70 open Production Supervisor jobs in Illinois and 1,901 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Mondelez International5 open
- ADM3 open
- Eaton Corporation3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Production Supervisor postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,293 postings).
- Education
- 152 of the 1,901 open Production Supervisor jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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