Job description
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 Machinist/Piler Mechanic, located at all MSC MI Union Locations.
Job Summary:
Responsible for the day-to-day machining and mechanical issues within the Michigan Sugar Agricultural Maintenance Department by pushing for continuous improvement within your area of responsibility to become more efficient with less down time while continuing to produce a quality product. To support the shift-to-shift department operations as needed.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all repairs of the pilers, ventilation, and any other related equipment in the event of breakdowns to reduce downtime. These items, due to the nature of daily operations, may include the following: machining, welding, mechanical, and pneumatic within the boundaries of each district or their responsibilities. The previous list is not limited and may change at any time.
- Must look for ways to improve productivity from a mechanical perspective. With the support of crew members and management implement new ideas that will reduce downtime, breakdowns, or failure in the mechanical systems.
- Responsible for understanding all operations of Agriculture beet receiving and monitoring. Must be capable of training new members on proper repair of existing as well as new equipment when necessary.
- Must have strong skills in the care of hand and power tools employed in all phases of heavy equipment mechanical maintenance and repair work.
- Attend and participate in special training and familiarization workshops dealing with updates or changes in piling ground equipment operations, repairs, and maintenance.
- Ensures that working conditions are safe at all times and support all related safety guidelines as needed.
- Supports an accurate parts inventory at all times for all pieces of equipment.
- Help maintain compliance with good manufacturing practices and safety standards.
Position Qualifications:
- Possess a High School Diploma or equivalent
- Possess a certificate or degree in machining/millwright from a trade school or college
- Prior machinist experience of 5 years or more in Machining, Millwright work, and Welding and fabrication.
- Chauffeur License or ability to obtain one
- Strong technical knowledge of manufacturing environment and high-speed production equipment.
Key Competencies:
- Have the ability to effectively communicate concerns related to Machining (tool and die), preventative maintenance, mechanical breakdowns, and any other concerns to management and other maintenance employees as needed.
- Must effectively communicate with other crew members, foreman, or supervision during shift changes as it pertains to downtime items, repairs, updates, lessons learned, anytime the following shift could potentially be impacted when necessary.
- Have the ability to support equipment management processes to ensure piler equipment efficiencies, improve key performance indicators and to eliminate down time as needed.
- Flexability to travel to all other job sites to perform required maintenance on equipment as needed.
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 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, 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.
Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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