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 Packaging & Warehouse Supervisor, located at the Fremont, OH facility.
Job Summary:
The P&W Manager oversees the end-to-end operations of a sugar receiving, storing, and packaging facility. This includes inbound receipt of bulk and packaged sugar, storage in silos and warehouses, packaging, inventory management, and outbound shipping. Ensuring safe, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective operations across multiple shifts while directly leading a unionized hourly workforce. The P&W Manager drives performance through strong labor relations, adherence to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), food safety standards (GMP, HACCP, SQF), OSHA compliance, and continuous improvement. The P&W Manager is accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and budgetary targets.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Champion safety leadership and zero-incident culture. Ensure full compliance with OSHA, GMP, HACCP, food safety protocols and regulatory requirements. Keep the facility audit-ready at all times for internal, customer, or third-party audits. Conduct self-audits and provide training as needed.
- Recruit, train, and motivate staff. Liaise with production, quality, maintenance, logistics, and senior leadership to align on goals and resolve issues.
- Lead, coach, and supervise hourly union employees. Strictly adhere to the CBA, handle grievances and disciplinary actions per contract terms, manage attendance/vacations, and build positive labor relations. Identify training and develop talent as needed.
- Track and report KPIs (safety metrics, quality, inventory accuracy, throughput, labor productivity, maintenance, budgetary, and on-time shipping). Prepare budgets, management reports, and variance analyses. Drive process improvements and cost reductions.
- Manage bulk receiving and loading (railcar and trucks). Oversee packaging, order fulfillment, shipping accuracy, and carrier coordination for on-time deliveries
- Direct operations across all shifts. Ensure smooth shift handovers via shift change meetings, establish and communicate consistent performance standards.
- Optimize warehouse layout, space utilization, and material flow. Coordinate preventive maintenance for packaging equipment, handling systems, and silos. Lead reliability and capital projects as assigned.
- Inventory management (bulk sugar, packaged sugar, supplies, etc). Implement FIFO rotation, conduct cycle counts, reconcile inventory, and minimize shrink.
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Manufacturing or Operations Management, or equivalent experience.
- 7 years of years of progressive supervisory/management experience in manufacturing and logistics
- Experience directly managing hourly employees in a unionized environment, with a CBA, is required
- Proven track record managing multi-shift operations facility
- Strong background in food manufacturing or bulk commodity handling (sugar, grains, or similar) is highly preferred, including familiarity with GMP, HACCP, and SQF.
- Demonstrated experience with a WMS / ERP system
- In-depth knowledge of general industry health and safety regulations
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Exceptional leadership, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills and ability to motivate a unionized team.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, proficient in data-driven decision making and KPI management
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional and labor relations
- Budgeting, reporting, and project management expertise.
- Knowledge of safety regulations, warehouse best practices, and food industry compliance.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and WMS / ERP systems.
- Ability to work flexible hours across shifts and respond to operational needs.
- Provides model behavior, following Michigan Sugar Company’s core values (Safety First – EPIC+). Leading the team 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. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. 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 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
