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Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity at its Bay City Factory for a Mechanic in the Packaging and Warehouse Department. This position is an hourly position working a variable schedule and is part of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Local # 263-G.

Job Summary:

The Mechanic will be responsible for maintenance and repair of the packaging warehouse sugar path equipment, production packaging machinery. The employee is expected to follow all GMP/SQF guidelines while continuously maintaining quality and improving production.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Trouble shoot mechanical repairs and perform change overs on packaging equipment
• Order and track all parts from start to finish while working with the maintenance coordinator and parts cage attendant through email and in person
• Navigate parts location in parts cage for in stock parts and charge parts out to equipment number
• Mechanics will also provide support to supervisors, foreman, team leaders and maintenance crews to minimalize downtime and production loss
• Monitor and repair all inbound & outbound sugar path equipment and perform summer maintenance
• Respond to radio calls for mechanical repairs while prioritizing importance and reporting any downtime exceeding 20 minutes to supervisor or foreman
• In timely fashion complete all assigned work orders and find projects to fill your schedule
• Fill out daily shift change forms of worked performed and information hand off
• Research and store information on maintenance website and files for future use
• Measure and determine size and quantity of materials & manage inventories
• Use various technical tools and measuring devices such as calipers, shiv alignment, temp readers
• Rigging and lifting equipment and parts multiple floors
• Understands blue print reading and basic mathematical calculations such as decimal/fractions
• Repetitive lifting or carrying items up to 40-50 lbs.
• Repetitive lifting above 50 pounds shall be accomplished with the assistance of another employee or the use of a mechanical lifting device.

Position Qualifications:

• College certificate or license in maintenance field
• High School diploma or equivalent
• Preferred 3+ years of industrial mechanic work
• Preferred knowledge of plumbing and compressed air systems
• Ability to navigate through computers and equipment PLC's to operate machinery

Key Competencies:

• Strong organization skills in order to coordinate and track different equipment settings and practice
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction wile finding own or group projects
• Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions while thinking employee/food safety first
• Demonstrate personal leadership and positive can-do attitude while helping anyone in need
• Flexible and able to work in fast paced and varying environments with at times limited resources
• Ability to work well with others in a team environment and project model behavior.
• Self-leadership by demonstrating ethics and integrity, displaying drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn, managing self, increasing self-awareness

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 sugarbe