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 Mechanic, located at the Bay City Factory.
Job Summary:
The Mechanic is responsible for maintenance and repair of all factory machinery, sharpening of knives, inventory of complete knife block assemblies and knife block changes in the Slicers. The employee is expected to follow all guidelines while continuously maintaining quality and demand.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Sharpening knives to specific tolerances with the Automatic Sharpening Machine (MSA).
- Cleaning and sorting knives both manually and with the Automatic RSA machine.
- Mechanics will also provide support to the maintenance crews and various skilled trade technicians in performing maintenance and repairs to equipment throughout the factory.
- Changing of knife blocks in the Slicers as required.
- Identify component defects in each step, isolate and inform of any problems.
- Re-build and assemble machines or mechanical equipment
- Inspect and diagnose machines and equipment for functionality issues.
- Keep logs of work and report on issues.
- Measure and determine size and quantity of materials & manage inventories.
- Use various technical tools and measuring devices such as calipers and gages.
- Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment problems.
- Understands basic mathematical calculations
Position Qualifications:
- Millwrights certification or equivalent
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 2+ years of industrial mechanic work
- Preferred Knowledge of Putsch Slicers
- Ability to navigate through computers and equipment PLC’s to operate machinery
Key Competencies:
- Strong organization skills in order to coordinate and track different equipment settings and practice.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction and guidance.
- Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions
- Demonstrate personal leadership and positive can-do attitude
- Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments
- Ability to work well with others in a team environment
- Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate value
- Self-leadership by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness
NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by staff assigned to this position. The above statements are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills that may be required. All staff may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities as needed.
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 sugar beet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugar beets 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 eight sugar beet processing companies in the United States and Michigan is one of 11 states where sugar beets are grown in the country.
Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employe
