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 General Lab Special Chemist, located at the Carrollton Facility.
Job Summary:
Consistently and accurately perform analyses of samples. Report results of these analyses. The samples for analysis will include product quality samples, process control samples, environmental samples, and additional special request samples.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure effective communication with the Technical Services Manager to ensure all required samples are obtained, processed and correctly reported.
- Communicate all required information and process anomalies with Technical Services Manager.
- Ensure retain samples are appropriately stored, labeled and rotated, as required, per retain policy.
- Ensure the lab is kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
- Use proper precautions and personal protective equipment (PPE) while performing all laboratory analyses.
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment.
- Read and understand appropriate SDS’s for the job station.
- Software – must be or become proficient in the lab sheets applications
- All other duties as assigned
Necessary Skills:
- Must be able to operate sensitive laboratory instrumentation.
- Needs to have the ability to perform calculations related to the required analyses.
- Use of computers and calculators is necessary.
- Be able to lift and move totes or sugar bundles of up to 50 lbs. as necessary.
Qualifications:
- An ability to perform a wide variety of laboratory techniques in a consistent, accurate, and timely fashion.
- A working knowledge of the use of personal computers, especially typical spreadsheet and database applications.
- A basic knowledge of chemistry and quality control methods is a job requirement, and the employee must either have that knowledge or be able to gain it thru training.
Physical Requirements:
- This position requires repetitive lifting of samples up to 1L (<10lbs) in size.
- An ability to stand for long periods is required.
Training Required:
- General OSHA Safety requirements (Right to Know)
- General Lab Safety requirements
- The following laboratory techniques must be learned using the appropriate ICUMSA, MSC or other recognized official methods:
- Granulated Sugar White Sediment
- Granulated Sugar Black Sediment
- Granulated Sugar SO2 Analysis
- Granulated Sugar Color
- Granulated Sugar Ash
- Granulated Sugar Visual Specks
- Granulated Sugar Screen Analysis
- pH
- Brix
- Pol
- HPLC
- Molasses Color
- Pulp/Pellet Moisture
- Pulp/Pellet Ash
- Pellet Hardness
- Pulp/Pellet %Sugar
- Pulp/Pellet %Sand
- Pond Water pH
- Pond Water COD
- Others as needed
- Familiar with all Quality Standards, Calibration and Verification, and retest Procedures.
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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