Instrument Technician

Instrument Technician

Safety First. 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 an Instrument Technician, located at the Bay City Factory, Bay City, 48706. This position is an hourly position working various schedules and is part of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Local # 263-G.

Job Summary:

An Instrument Technician at Michigan Sugar's Bay City Factory is responsible for Instrumentation maintenance labor to maintain the factory in an efficient, safe and environmentally sound manner. Requires performing a wide variety of tasks including installing and maintaining Instrumentation systems in and around the factory.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Keep instrumentation systems running to eliminate or minimize down time.
• Upgrade instrumentation systems as required.
• Maintain existing instrumentation equipment.
• Support operations with process optimization through instrument calibration, reliability and tuning.

Position Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years industrial Instrumentation experience
• Industrial experience, including knowledge in control loops, relay logic, PLC logic and computer-based process control.
• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work.
• Ability to read and understand electrical and instrumentation prints/drawings.

Key Competencies:

• Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions.
• Demonstrated personal leadership and positive can-do attitude.
• Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments.
• Ability to work with others in a team environment.
• Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate value.
• Leading the self by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness.
• Ability to work shift work.

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

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.