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 a full-time opportunity for a Factory Electrician/Instrument Technician at the Croswell Factory. This position is an hourly position working various schedules and is part of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Local # 261-G.

Job Summary:

This Factory Electrician/Instrument Technician 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. This role will be a part of the Company apprenticeship program, and will require additional schooling and training.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Keep electrical systems running to prevent or minimize down time in process.
• Upgrading and adding new electrical systems which includes running conduit, wire and termination ends.
• Maintain existing electrical systems.
• Responsible for working cooperatively and assist various other skilled technicians in performing a variety of different maintenance, repair and construction tasks.
• Perform all electrical, instrumentation/programming on all production equipment and buildings keeping them in proper operating condition.
• Assist in mechanical or fabrication projects when the need arises.
• Handle all PLC installations, upgrades , program changes and keeping backup programs for all processors and HMIs.
• Plan and execute projects with minimal guidance.
• Parts ordering.
• Inspection of all newly installed and preexisting equipment to ensure safe and proper work was completed.
• Lead small work crews during repair season.
• 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:

• State of Michigan Electrical License as a Journeyman or Master Electrician.
• Minimum 5 years industrial electrical experience preferred.
• Must be willing to complete all aspects or equivalent of the MSC E/I program.
• Industrial experience, including knowledge in motor control, relay logic, PLC logic and computer based motor and process control system
• Experience with Allen Bradley Rockwell software, Logix 500, RSLogix 5000, Studio 5000, and Factory Talk View.
• EtherNetIP linking device and Connected Components Workbench experience is preferred. Candidates lacking this experience will be required to obtain once placed in the position.
• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work.
• Ability to use acetylene cutting torch and ability to weld are preferred.
• Ability to work safely at all heights and demonstrate proper use of all required PPE.

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
• Ability to work independently and take the initiative to self-start and complete tasks.

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 and defined contribution plan, 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 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 companys 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