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 Cleaner, located at the Carrollton Facility.
Job Summary:
Industrial Cleaners are responsible to work with minimal supervision, to ensure that the site is properly cleaned and sanitized on an ongoing basis, ensuring compliance with customer requirements, food safety regulations and Federal and State safety mandates. Industrial Cleaners will be required to efficiently operate different types of industrial equipment, in the appropriate areas and will need to understand the uses and hazards of various cleaning products.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Operate custodial tools and equipment, safely and efficiently, to maintain the condition of the facility.
- Safely complete painting tasks as needed.
- Identify proper attachments and their usage for all cleaning applications.
- Communicate effectively with supervisors and co-workers.
- Work independently to complete daily activities according to work schedules with minimal supervision.
- Understand and follow written/oral instructions and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Record all tasks completed on a daily cleaning journal.
- Understand and follow GMP/SQF guidelines.
- Inspect and maintain custodial equipment and tools for proper operating conditions.
- Identify and report equipment, food safety/sanitation and customer issues that need to be addressed.
Position Qualifications:
- Previous cleaning/sanitation experience utilizing chemicals is preferred
- Computer skills, math, written and oral communication skills
- Work in a team setting to complete desired tasks.
- Follow all SQF & GMP quality system guidelines & safety practices.
- Physically able to lift up to 50lbs and work in any condition, indoors or outdoors.
- Maintain a valid fork truck and aerial lift license
- Work any shift and weekend overtime as required.
- Able to climb stairs, ladders, use catwalks, bend and lift throughout the day.
- High School Diploma or equivalent
Key Competencies:
- Ability to reach with hands and arms in sometimes awkward places.
- Physically able to frequently stand, stoop, climb, balance, crouch, kneel, and crawl.
- Able to run vacuums and use mops, squeegees, brooms and brushes.
- Ability to work in an environment with exposure to wet and/or humid and hot and/or cold conditions, airborne particles, and cleaning chemicals.
- Find, read, and understand SDS sheets
- Must be able to work safely in high places and near moving mechanical parts.
- May need to attend periodic training classes to improve skills.
- Other duties or responsibilities as assigned by management.
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
