MDS Lead Mechanic

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 MDS Lead Mechanic, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S. Euclid Ave., Bay City, MI, 48706.

Job Summary:

The MDS Lead Mechanic is responsible for leading and supporting the day-to-day maintenance issues within the Molasses Desugarization Process at Michigan Sugar Company by leading a continuous improvement plan and increase uptime of equipment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Must effectively communicate concerns related to preventative and predictive maintenance, mechanical breakdowns, and any other concerns to management.
• MDS Lead Mechanic will also provide support to the maintenance crews and various skilled trade technicians in performing maintenance and repairs to equipment throughout MDS, Chemical Softening and Molasses off loading.
• Generate work orders, plan and schedule maintenance activities, lead shutdown work.
• Must be able to do heavy work, bending, lifting, and climbing up and down ladders and/or stairs.
• Ensure that working conditions are safe at all times through the Job Site Analysis program.
• Re-build and assemble machines or mechanical equipment.
• Inspect and diagnose machines and equipment for functionality issues.
• Strong knowledge of computers and Microsoft Office including the ability to create and complete work orders.
• Must maintain compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices and Safety standards.
• Use various technical tools and measuring devices such as calipers and gages.
• Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment problems.
• Understands basic mathematical calculations.
• Additional tasks added or assigned by management.
  
  

Position Qualifications:

• Millwrights certification or equivalent
• Must have held the Mechanic title
• High School diploma or equivalent
• 2 years of industrial mechanic work
• Ability to navigate through computers and equipment HMI’s (Human Machine Interface) to operate machinery
• Ability to work safely and follow all safety policies and PPE requirements
  
  

Key Competencies:

• Strong organization skills in order to coordinate and track different equipment settings and practice.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction and guidance.
• Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions.
• Demonstrate 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.
• Self-leadership by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, 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, dependent on position. To learn more visit www.michigansugar.com .

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 sugar beet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugar beets 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 eight sugar beet processing companies in the United States and Michigan is one of 11 states where sugar beets are grown in the country.

Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer