Factory Electrician/Instrument Technician

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 Electrician/Instrument Technician, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S.
Euclid Ave.
, Bay City, MI 48706.
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, instrumentation, and mechanical support to the Factory and/or Packaging & Warehousing as needed to sustain sugar production operations and maintenance.
The electrical and mechanical support will include installation and maintenance of a wide variety of sugar production equipment and other electrical or mechanical 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: Keep electrical systems running to prevent minimum down time in process Work on upgrading or adding new electrical systems Maintain existing electrical systems Perform all electrical and instrumentation work on all equipment and buildings keeping them in proper operating condition Assist in mechanical or fabrication projects when the need arises Plan and execute projects with minimal guidance Lead small work crews during repair season.
Position Qualifications: 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 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 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 Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer #LI-AS1