Electrician/Instrument Technician

Electrician/Instrument Technician Apprentice

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 Electrician/Instrument Technician Apprentice, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S. Euclid Ave., Bay City, MI 48706.

This individual must hold, at minimum, a Journeyman Electrician license from the State of Michigan.

Job Summary

This Factory EI requires a combination of electrical, instrumentation, programming, and mechanical skills. The primary duty of this position will be to provide electrical and instrumentation support to the Factory as needed to sustain sugar production operations and maintenance. The electrical and instrumentation support will include installation and maintenance of a wide variety of sugar production equipment and other electrical or instrumentation devices. The instrumentation/programming support will include, but will not be limited to sugar production, maintenance (hardware and software), and VFD installation/programing. Due to the nature of sugar production operations, shift work and overtime may be required.

Primary Responsibilities

• State of Michigan Electrical License as a Journeyman or Master Electrician
• Minimum 5 years industrial electrical experience
• Certificate of completion of a Instrumentation program.
• Minimum of 2 years experience preforming instrumentation work.
• Industrial experience, including knowledge in motor control, relay logic, PLC logic and computer based motor and process control system
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Ability to perform physically demanding work

Position Qualifications

• Ability to work safely at all heights and demonstrate proper use of all required PPE
• Must complete all aspects or equivalent of the MSC E/I program approved by the college Trades Administrator within a reasonable time frame approved by MSC management
• State of Michigan Electrical License as a Journeyman or Master Electrician
• Minimum 5 years industrial electrical experience preferred
• Industrial experience, including knowledge in motor control, relay logic, PLC logic and computer based motor and process control system
• Experience with Allen Bradley Rockwell software, Logix 500, RSLogix 5000, Studio 5000, and Factory Talk View
• EtherNetIP linking device and Connected Components Workbench experience is preferred. Candidates lacking this experience will be required to obtain once placed in the position.
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Ability to perform physically demanding work

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 well 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 independently and take the initiative to self-start and complete tasks.