Mechanic

Mechanic Position at Michigan Sugar Company

Tradition. Pride. Excellence. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day? Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity at its Bay City Factory Packaging & Warehouse facility. This position is an hourly position working a variable schedule and is part of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Local # 263-G.

Job Summary: The Mechanic will be responsible for maintenance and repair of the packaging warehouse sugar path equipment, production packaging machinery. The employee is expected to follow all GMP/SQF guidelines while continuously maintaining quality and improving production.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot mechanical repairs and perform change overs on packaging equipment.
• Order and track all parts from start to finish while working with the maintenance coordinator and parts cage attendant through email and in person.
• Navigate parts location in parts cage for in stock parts and charge parts out to equipment number.
• Mechanics will also provide support to supervisors, foreman, team leaders and maintenance crews to minimize downtime and production loss.
• Monitor and repair all inbound & outbound sugar path equipment and perform summer maintenance.
• Respond to radio calls for mechanical repairs while prioritizing importance and reporting any downtime to supervisor or foreman.
• In timely fashion complete all assigned work orders and find projects to fill your schedule.
• Fill out daily shift change forms of worked performed and information hand off.
• Research and store information on maintenance website and files for future use.
• Measure and determine size and quantity of materials & manage inventories.
• Use various technical tools and measuring devices such as calipers, shiv alignment, temp readers.
• Rigging and lifting equipment and parts multiple floors
• Understands blue print reading and basic mathematical calculations such as decimal/fractions
• Work weekends every 3rd weekend and overtime during summer maintenance.

Position Qualifications:

• College certificate or license in maintenance field
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Preferred 3+ years of industrial mechanic work
• Preferred knowledge of plumbing and compressed air systems
• Ability to navigate through computers and equipment PLC's to operate machinery

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.