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 a seasonal opportunity for a Research General Laborer, located at the Bay City Research Facility. This position will run April through September.
Job Summary:
A Research General Laborer reports to Michigan Sugar’s Agricultural Research Center in Bay City daily. This position is responsible for performing general field maintenance activities which include but are not limited to counting plant emergence, removing plants with hand tools or by hand, placing treatment stakes to be used by other employees for application and soil and tissue sampling. Work begins in May and will take place for roughly a month; harvest will begin in late August and wrap up mid-November. A background in agriculture is not necessary for this job. Employees will be expected to show up to the Research Center, transportation will be provided by Michigan Sugar to complete field work.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform field maintenance activities
- Manually thin and count trials as directed
- Collect soil and tissue samples
- Safely work on and around heavy machinery
- Ability to work in a lab setting
- Jobs may shift depending on weather and workload
Position Qualifications:
- Ability to perform physically demanding work
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Minimum of 18 years of age
- Must have reliable transportation
- Must be able to pass a drug test
Key Competencies:
- Safety oriented
- Demonstrate personal leadership and positive can-do attitude
- Flexible and able to work in a fast paced and varying environments
- Ability to work well with others in a team environment
- Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate value
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 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
