Shift Supervisor

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 Shift Supervisor, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S. Euclid Ave., Bay City, MI 48706.

Job Summary:

The Shift Supervisor is responsible for management and supervision of campaign shift operations in order to meet factory process and maintenance performance standards, and to manage inter-campaign maintenance resources to ensure factory reliability. Management of daily shift operations including the Beet processing campaign, Juice and Extract campaigns, Molasses Desugarization (MDS), Chemical Softening and Waste Water Treatment operations.


The Shift Supervisor is also responsible for supporting safety, environmental, quality, feed and food safety programs and individualized R&M budgets in addition to hourly employee management.


Primary Responsibilities:

• Leadership - Manage shift operations to achieve factory business goals and performance standards. Supervise the shift Union process foremen and maintenance crews through documented objectives and performance assessments.
• Safety - Ensure all employees, contracted personnel and visitors comply with regulatory and company requirements for personal and facility safety.
• Environmental - Manage and support all processes impacting environmental operations ensuring government compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Production - Review shift production data and adjust specific targets to achieve factory process goals, cost efficiency and environmental compliance. Follow up on tracking results, provide feedback and take corrective actions as appropriate.
• Quality - Sustain quality targets to ensure production sugar and byproducts meet feed and food safety and customer quality standards. Investigate product quality issues, document and implement corrective actions.
• Maintenance - Support daily maintenance for all factory equipment during the process campaigns. During inter-campaign conduct significant equipment inspection, R&M, improvements, capital project installations and reassembly of the entire factory in preparation for the next campaign. Set planned tasks and expectations for responsible equipment repair and adhere to budget.
• Budget - Support and accountability to the annual factory operations budget. Follow-up on process materials, chemicals and supplies usage. Communication of results and accountability for variances.
• Efficiency - Optimization of process and equipment resources to minimize unit costs and enhance product output.
• Employee Development - Identify and implement training and development for the Union workforce to ensure the necessary people skills and resources are applied currently and in the future.
• Business Development - Identification and submission of capital and extraordinary projects that provide solutions for continuous improvement to operations.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science technical degree (Chemistry, Engineering, Industrial).
• Alternatively, extensive industrial experience of 5+ years with progressive supervisory or management responsibilities.
• 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 and Microsoft Office.

Required Training:

• General factory safety requirements (Right to Know)
• Food-related Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Factory-related environmental regulations
• SQF certification - principles or SQF
• Knowledge of GMP+ standards

Key Competencies:

• Ability to lead and develop cross functional teams.
• Ability to work shift work on day and night shift rotations.
• Ability to deliver results working within collective bargaining agreement.
• Demonstrated personal leadership and strong conflict resolution skills.
• Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments.
• Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate value.
• Lead by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, and managing self and increasing self-awareness.

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

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