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 an MDS Technician 1 located at the Bay City Factory.
Position Title: MDS Technician 1
Reports To: MDS Manager
Classification: Hourly, Union
Job Summary:
MDS Technician 1 at Michigan Sugar Company’s Bay City Factory is responsible for the process and maintenance work. MDS Technician will work with a team in making the necessary adjustments to optimize the Chromatographic Separation Process, which takes molasses and separates it into two properties, upgrade, and betaine. The upgrade is then separated into extract and raffinate with the extract being refined into sugar.
This includes operating the control system, optimizing the separators, changing out pumps and valves, rebuilding pumps and valves, maintaining and adjusting pumps and valves, maintaining and flushing heat exchangers, changing and re-clothing filters, testing the brix and Ph levels, maintaining proper resin levels in cells, maintaining, and inspecting the separators, operating the softening system, creating, and completing work orders, document maintenance performed. They also must fully understand the mechanics, instruments, electronics, and the locations of the equipment and be able to maintain and troubleshoot problems.
Additional responsibilities include daily cleaning and preventative maintenance of all equipment and the workplace, have strong organization skills, and track multiple equipment settings to optimize process.
The MDS Technician 1 is to call on the Electrician & Instrumentation Technician for support with maintenance and repairs to the equipment.
The MDS Technician 1 will use and care for the equipment, components & tools while running and maintaining it and must be able to work independently with minimal direction and guidance.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Operating and optimizing the Chromatographic Separation Process
- Rebuilding pumps and valves
- Maintaining and adjusting pumps and valves
- Maintaining and flushing heat exchangers
- Changing and re-clothing filters
- Maintaining all separators
- Operating the softening system
- Completing work orders
- Complete KPI’s and lost time reports
- Documenting performed maintenance
- Maintain equipment and troubleshoot problems
Position Qualifications:
- Mechanical, Electrical or Instrumentation training is a plus
- Mechanical experience
- Process experience
- Technical experience
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Ability to perform physically demanding work
Key Competencies:
- Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions
- Demonstrated 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
- Leading self 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 Employer
