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Packaging and Warehouse Mechanic

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284239430

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Tradition. Pride. Excellence. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day?

Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity at its Bay City Factory for a Mechanic in the Packaging and Warehouse Department. This position is an hourly position working a variable schedule and is part of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Local # 263-G.

Job Summary:

The Mechanic will be responsible for maintenance and repair of the packaging warehouse sugar path equipment, production packaging machinery. The employee is expected to follow all GMP/SQF guidelines while continuously maintaining quality and improving production.

Primary Responsibilities:

Trouble shoot mechanical repairs and perform change overs on packaging equipment
Order and track all parts from start to finish while working with the maintenance coordinator and parts cage attendant through email and in person
Navigate parts location in parts cage for in stock parts and charge parts out to equipment number
Mechanics will also provide support to supervisors, foreman, team leaders and maintenance crews to minimalize downtime and production loss
Monitor and repair all inbound & outbound sugar path equipment and perform summer maintenance
Respond to radio calls for mechanical repairs while prioritizing importance and reporting any downtime exceeding 20 minutes to supervisor or foreman
In timely fashion complete all assigned work orders and find projects to fill your schedule
Fill out daily shift change forms of worked performed and information hand off
Research and store information on maintenance website and files for future use
Measure and determine size and quantity of materials & manage inventories
Use various technical tools and measuring devices such as calipers, shiv alignment, temp readers
Rigging and lifting equipment and parts multiple floors
Understands blue print reading and basic mathematical calculations such as decimal/fractions
Repetitive lifting or carrying items up to 40-50 lbs.
Repetitive lifting above 50 pounds shall be accomplished with the assistance of another employee or the use of a mechanical lifting device.

Position Qualifications:

College certificate or license in maintenance field
High School diploma or equivalent
Preferred 3+ years of industrial mechanic work
Preferred knowledge of plumbing and compressed air systems
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 wile finding own or group projects
Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions while thinking employee/food safety first
Demonstrate personal leadership and positive can-do attitude while helping anyone in need
Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments with at times limited resources
Ability to work well with others in a team environment and project model behavior.
Self-leadership by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness

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.

Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Michigan Sugar Company

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Bay City, Michigan 48708

Job Code Number

284239430

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Expiration Date

5/22/2025

O*NET Code

49-9041.00

O*NET Occupation

Industrial Machinery Mechanics

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