Jobs at Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.

Loads and unloads refrigerated products, pallets, and shipments in a cold distribution center environment. Responsibilities include pulling product from refrigerated trailers, loading route trucks, maintaining a clean dock, following GMP, SOP, and quality standards, prioritizing tasks, and communicating effectively. The role requires physical work, lifting up to 50 pounds, passing mechanical aptitude, drug screening, physical, and lift tests, and working an overnight Thursday-through-Saturday schedule with rotating Sundays.

Oversee and support quality assurance and food safety programs across six to eight dairy manufacturing plants. Responsibilities include reviewing complaints and quality data, conducting internal audits, supporting SQF, FDA, state, and customer inspections, delivering training, monitoring sanitation and chemical usage, resolving quality issues, and improving corporate QA programs. The role requires frequent travel, plant-based work in demanding environments, and collaboration with plant QA managers and leadership.

Loads, unloads, pulls, and hand-packs refrigerated products for shipment from a UHT distribution center. Maintains the load-out dock, follows GMPs, SOPs, and quality standards, prioritizes tasks, communicates effectively, and works safely around forklifts and mechanical equipment in cold conditions. The role requires a rotating 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule and lifting up to 50 pounds.

Drive semi-trucks or straight trucks on assigned dairy delivery routes throughout Michigan and surrounding states. Load and unload products, manage truck inventory, rotate and stock customer deliveries, perform vehicle safety checks, follow DOT and company safety requirements, and maintain customer relationships. The role requires frequent lifting up to 100 pounds, manual transmission driving, and compliance with DOT physical qualifications. Employees work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. and return home daily.

Provides phone and email customer service, enters and processes orders, schedules loads, reconciles shipped and delivered products, processes deposits and statements, and performs daily office functions. Requires multitasking, time management, communication, problem-solving, basic Word and Excel knowledge, email proficiency, holiday availability, and occasional long hours or weekends.

Work in a refrigerated plant and cooler environment operating and cleaning multiple machines, relieving various production positions, and becoming certified to receive raw milk. The role requires flexible availability for nights, weekends, holidays, overtime, and varied shifts. Employees must lift over 50 pounds, drag over 240 pounds, and pass drug and background checks.

Operate and clean plant machinery in a 32–40 degree cooler environment, provide relief across multiple production positions, and become certified to receive raw milk. The role requires flexible shift availability, including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime. Employees must meet age and education requirements, pass drug and background checks, and handle lifting over 50 pounds and dragging over 240 pounds.

Manages customer relationships and territory business, develops new accounts, secures product authorizations, ensures retail shelf and pricing execution, manages trade spending and promotions, presents customer business reviews, and delivers annual volume and margin targets. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, customer P&L management, sales presentations, and occasional overnight travel.

Supervise 10+ production employees and oversee production, sanitation, storage, refrigeration, inventory, and load-out operations. Ensure compliance with GMPs, OSHA, EPA, quality, safety, and regulatory standards. Manage staffing, scheduling, training, documentation, audits, inspections, purchasing, customer complaints, and startup/shutdown procedures. This is a hands-on floor leadership role requiring SQF and PCQI certification, physical stamina, and flexibility to work varying hours.

Provides friendly customer service, takes orders, operates the point-of-sale system, prepares and serves ice cream products, handles cash transactions, restocks supplies, follows food safety procedures, maintains clean customer and work areas, and assists with opening and closing duties. Requires dependable attendance, teamwork, basic math skills, customer interaction, and schedule flexibility for evenings, weekends, holidays, and busy periods.

Oversee shift manufacturing and plant operations, lead work area teams to meet safety, food safety, quality and productivity goals, drive continuous improvement, coach team leaders, manage staffing and performance, collaborate with quality/sanitation/supply chain, and support capital and cost-reduction initiatives.

The Ice Cream Parlor Manager oversees daily operations, leads staff, ensures customer satisfaction, manages inventory, and upholds cleanliness and safety standards.