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.
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 market wages for both hourly and salaried employees, opportunity for professional growth and development, and comprehensive benefit packages that may include medical, dental, 401(k) and paid time off. 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. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 140,000 acres of sugar beets each year in 17 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 approximately 1,000 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 $90 million and its annual local economic impact is about $700 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
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