Maintenance Superintendent
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Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity at its Caro Factory for a Maintenance Superintendent.
Job Summary:
The Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for asset reliability, capacity assurance, planning, R&M budget and leadership of all factory maintenance operations, including equipment safety, machine uptime, productivity and continuous improvement with all plant equipment.
The Maintenance Superintendent directs and oversees all Union Maintenance and Storeroom personnel as well as the Shift Supervisors during the intercampaign repair period. This position is responsible for hiring, professional development, performance management and scheduling of direct reports and hourly employees.
The Maintenance Department is responsible for daily maintenance of all factory equipment throughout the Beet processing campaign and Waste Water Treatment equipment to support factory operations and meet business objectives. Additionally, the maintenance superintendent supports to the P&W manager in the maintenance and repair of the liquid sugar operations and sugar storage silos.
During the Inter-campaign months, the maintenance department conducts significant equipment inspections, Repair & Maintenance (R&M), equipment improvements, capital project installations and reassembly of the entire factory in preparation for the next campaign.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Maintain and ensure all employees comply with regulatory & company requirements for personal & facility safety.
- Maintain equipment to meet environmental compliance.
- Leadership of the factory maintenance department to achieve operational business goals.
- Assure maintenance meets Feed and Food safety program requirements as they relate to USDA and SQF.
- On-call 24/7 for emergency response of all equipment issues.
- Management and adherence to the R&M budget including, capital planning, contributing to controllable margin, and loss control through forecasting, tracking and reporting.
- Evaluate reliability through Mean Time to Repair & Mean Time to Failure & provide solutions for continuous improvement to minimize downtime and enhance product output.
- Implementation & utilization of KPI’s to measure asset/equipment performance & total lifecycle maintenance costs.
- Manages and leads all preventative, predictive and reactive maintenance/process and reliability functions.
- Utilization of the Advanced Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for cost and performance tracking.
- Set specific targets and timelines to achieve maintenance goals, tracking results, providing feedback, and taking corrective actions as appropriate.
- Management of the Parts Warehouse including asset control, usage tracking and minimization of inventory.
- Assure all site purchasing functions follow the correct policies and procedures.
- Training and development for on-going feedback, succession planning and performance review.
- Ability to work across department lines in regards to internal quality/compliance audits.
Position Qualifications:
- Highly desired to have 5 years industrial plant related experience in a maintenance leadership role.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering highly preferred.
- Alternatively extensive industrial experience of 10+ years with progressive supervisory or management responsibilities.
- Evident business skills with the ability to clearly communicate strategy and vision to various team members.
- This will require an objective view of the work performance of the crews, and the ability and desire to be in conflict with the workforce at times.
- Demonstrated completion of Maintenance and Reliability courses and/or professional qualifications in the same field.
- Training or relevant exposure in supervision skills, quality assurance systems, environmental and safety regulations.
- Strong leadership abilities, communication skills and understanding of mechanical equipment and chemical process.
- Proficient skills in company data management systems such as AMMS, Oracle PeopleSoft & Microsoft Office.
Michigan Sugar Company offers competitive salary, opportunity for professional growth, and provides excellent medical insurance 100% company paid. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match and defined contribution plan, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. To learn more visit www.michigansugar.com.
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.