Maintenance Technician

Michigan Sugar; Bay City (MI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Michigan Sugar Company seeks a full-time P&W Maintenance Technician at the Bay City Factory in Bay City, MI. The role covers mechanical and electrical tasks in a safe, food-production environment, requiring leadership and teamwork to support production flow and maintenance schedules.

Qualified candidates will hold an electrical license, have 3–5 years of industrial electrical experience, and a HS diploma or GED with mechanical training. Overtime is expected as part of the job.

Qualifications

• Current Michigan electrical journeyman or master license.
• 3–5 years industrial electrical experience.
• Experience with motor control, relay logic, PLC logic, and computer-based motor/process control.
• High school diploma or GED and related mechanical training acceptable.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work in hot and cold environments.

Responsibilities

• Keep electrical systems running to prevent downtime in the process.
• Maintain and upgrade existing electrical systems.
• Collaborate with mechanics or work independently on mechanical issues.
• Maintain machinery and implement new equipment as needed.
• Demonstrate problem solving, leadership, and a proactive mindset.
• Accept overtime as part of the position and communicate across shifts.

Skills

Electrical license

Industrial electrical

PLC logic

Motor control

Mechanical training

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Mechanical training certification

Tools

Electrical testing tools

Industrial control systems

Job description

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 P&W Maintenance Technician, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S. Euclid Ave., Bay City, MI 48706.

Job Summary:

Maintenance Technician provide both mechanical and electrical certified skills. Employee and customer safety will always be a primary function while performing a wide variety of tasks in an (SQF) safe quality food production environment. This requires skills as a leader and team player participating in installation, repairs, production flow, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.

Required Prerequisites:

• Current State of Michigan Electrical Journeyman or Masters License
• Minimum of 3-5 years industrial electrical experience
• Industrial experience, including knowledge in motor control, relay logic, PLC logic, and computer based motor and process control system.
• Certification of mechanical training and 3-5 years of experience
• Possess a High School Diploma or GED
• Ability to perform physically demanding work in hot and cold environments

Primary Responsibilities:

• Keep electrical systems running to prevent minimum down time in process
• Maintain existing electrical systems and upgrading or adding new electrical systems
• Work in cooperation with mechanics or individually on mechanical issues
• Maintain existing mechanical equipment/machinery and upgrading or adding new mechanical equipment/machinery
• Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions
• Accept overtime is structured into this position
• Demonstrated personal leadership and positive can-do attitude
• Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments
• Use of internet to research, order and track parts for delivery
• Communicate issues and solutions with every shift to ensure smooth hand off
• Leading the self by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness

This list of duties and responsibilities (both generally and specifically) is not intended to be all-inclusive. Other duties or responsibilities may be assigned from time to time as needed.

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