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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 Factory Superintendent, located at the Bay City Factory.
Job Summary:
A Factory Superintendent at Michigan Sugar is responsible to lead and manage campaign shift operations to meet factory process and maintenance performance standards, and to manage inter-campaign maintenance resources to ensure factory reliability.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Production – ensuring the factory is operated to meet factory process goals, cost efficiency and environmental compliance
- Maintenance – setting planned tasks and expectations for equipment repair on shift and during the inter-campaign to ensure profitable and efficient operations
- Quality – ensuring all sugar and by-products meet food safety and customer quality standards
- Safety – ensuring all employees, visitors and contract personnel comply with regulatory and company safety policies and procedures
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or 3-5 years of equivalent relevant experience
- Previous supervisory experience
- Working knowledge of Microsoft office software programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Key Competencies:
- Ability to deliver results working within collective bargaining agreement
- People leadership
- Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions
- Strong conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrates 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
- Leading the self by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness
- Provides model behaviour to demonstrate corporate value
- Demonstrates excellence in oral and written communication
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 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 Compan