Beet End Foreman

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 Beet End Foreman, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S.
Euclid Ave.
, Bay City.
Job Summary: Leadership and supervision of one of four sugar manufacturing process shifts, beet-end operations.
This includes oversight for sugar beet processing including process safety, quality and environmental responsibilities.
Primary Responsibilities: Leadership – provide leadership, guidance, and supervision for the shift beet-end crews to achieve factory operating goals and performance standards.
Provide support and cooperation with supervisor and maintenance staff on shift.
Production Objectives – reviewing shift production data and adjusting specific targets and timelines to optimize beet-end operations and production goals.
Follow up on tracking results, providing feedback and taking corrective actions as appropriate.
Quality – ensuring intermediate and final product streams meet food safety and customer quality standards, plus product quality issues are investigated, documented and corrective action implemented.
Safety – ensuring all factory employees, visitors and contracted personnel comply with regulatory and company requirements for personal, department and facility safety.
Environmental – support that all facility activities and operations comply with regulatory requirements.
Efficiency – optimization of factory employee and equipment resources to minimize unit costs and enhance productivity and product output.
Business Development – identification and submission of recommendations for projects or modifications to improve facility operations.
Monitoring of Equipment – daily inspection and preventative maintenance of sugar end equipment, such as: granulators, cooler, bucket elevators, centrifugals, hydraulic systems, pumps, and other critical equipment located on the sugar end.
Position Qualifications: Knowledge of beet end process flows.
High-School Diploma, preferred, and/or a minimum 5 years industrial plant related operations experience.
beet end experience Alternatively extensive industrial practical experience of 5+ years with beet manufacturing.
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 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 Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer #LI-AS1