Excellence. Pride. Integrity. Compassion. Trust. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day? At Michigan Sugar, our purpose is Making Life Sweeter, and our mission is Creating Growth and Opportunity.
Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity for a Electrical/Instrumentation Supervisor, located at the Caro Factory.
Job Summary:
The E/I Supervisor is responsible for management and supervision of asset reliability, capacity assurance, planning, R&M budget and to support leadership with all factory Electrical/Instrumentation maintenance operations, including equipment safety, Equipment uptime, productivity and continuous improvement with all plant electrical and instrumentation equipment.
The E/I Supervisor directs and oversees all Union E/I’s and apprentices in the E/I apprenticeship program. This position supports hiring apprentices within the bargaining group and provides technical expertise and development to hourly employees.
The E/I Department is responsible for daily maintenance of all factory electrical, instrumentation and operating system equipment throughout the Beet processing campaign Juice campaign, Chemical Softening plant and Waste Water Treatment equipment to support factory operations and meet business objectives.
During the Inter-campaign months, the E/I department conducts significant electrical system inspection, R&M, electrical equipment improvement, capital project installations, reassembly and test out of the entire factory’s electrical system and operating system in preparation for the next campaign.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Maintain and ensure all employees comply with regulatory & company requirements for personal & facility safety.
- Maintain electrical, instrumentation and operating system equipment to meet environmental compliance.
- Support management of the factory maintenance and processing department’s to achieve operational business goals.
- Assure electrical maintenance meets Feed & Food safety program requirements as they relate to USDA & SQF.
- On-call 24/7 for emergency response of all electrical, instrumentation and operating system equipment issues.
- Management and adherence to the R&M budget including, capital planning, contributing to controllable margin, and loss control through forecasting, tracking and reporting.
- Help lead implementation & utilization of KPI’s to measure asset/equipment performance & total lifecycle maintenance costs as relates to electrical, instrumentation and operating system.
- Provide leadership with all preventative, predictive and reactive maintenance/process and reliability functions of the factory electrical and operating system.
- Utilization of the Advanced Maintenance Management System (AMMS) for cost and performance tracking.
- Support development of maintenance targets and timing. Track results and take corrective actions as appropriate to achieve goals.
- Management of the electrical and instrumentation parts inventory including asset control, usage tracking, obsolescence reduction.
- Follow the correct policies and procedures with all purchasing functions.
- Identify and implement training and development for the Union workforce to ensure the necessary people skills and resources are applied currently and in the future.
- Identification and submission of capital and extraordinary projects that provide solutions for continuous improvement to operations.
- Manage the programming function of the iFix operating system including documentation of changes to the programing and giving the final decision as to what changes are to be made to the system.
- Ability to work across department lines in regards to internal quality/compliance audits.
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science Degree desired (Mechanical, Electrical, IT or Industrial Engineering).
- Alternatively extensive industrial experience of 10+ years with progressive maintenance, automation/programing background supervisory responsibilities.
- Evident business skills with the ability to clearly communicate strategy and vision to various team members.
- Training or relevant exposure in supervision skills, quality assurance systems, environmental and safety regulations.
- Strong leadership abilities, communication skills and understanding of electrical and instrumentation equipment and chemical process.
- Proficient skills in company data management systems such as AMMS, Oracle PeopleSoft & Microsoft Office.
Required Training upon hiring:
- General factory safety requirements (Right to Know)
- Food-related Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Factory-related environmental regulations
- SQF certification – principles or SQF
- Knowledge of GMP+ standards
Key Competencies:
- A Journeyman Electrical license or Master Electrician license a plus.
- Ability to lead and develop cross functional teams.
- Flexible working hours day and night, able to work in fast paced and varying environments.
- Ability to deliver results working within collective bargaining agreement.
- Demonstrated personal leadership and strong conflict resolution skills.
- Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate values.
- Ability to multitask, handle multiple priorities, problem solve and make decisions.
- Lead by demonstrating ethics and integrity, display drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, and managing self, increase self-awareness.
Michigan Sugar Company offers competitive salary, opportunity for professional growth, and provides excellent medical insurance 100% company paid. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. To learn more visit www.michigansugar.com.
Michigan Sugar Company was founded in 1906 when six smaller sugar companies merged their operations. In 2002, Michigan Sugar Company became a grower-owned cooperative and in 2004, it merged with Monitor Sugar Company to form the company that exists today.
Michigan Sugar Company is headquartered in Bay City and has sugarbeet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugarbeets each year in 20 Michigan counties, as well as Ontario, Canada. Those beets are sliced at the factories and turned into about 1.3 billion pounds of sugar annually.
That sugar is sold to industrial, commercial and retail customers under the Pioneer and Big Chief brands.
Michigan Sugar Company has 930 year-round employees and an additional 1,100 seasonal workers. It is the No. 1 employer in Huron County, the No. 2 employer in Bay and Sanilac counties and the No. 3 employer in Tuscola County. The company’s annual payroll is more than $65 million and its annual local economic impact is about $500 million.
Michigan Sugar Company is the third largest of nine sugarbeet processing companies in the United States and Michigan is one of 11 states where sugarbeets are grown in the country.
