Industrial Cleaner

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 Industrial Cleaner, located at the Croswell Factory.

Job Summary:

To be able to work in groups or individually, with minimal supervision, to ensure that the Packaging and Warehousing areas are properly cleaned and sanitized.

To ensure compliance with customer requirements, food safety regulations and Federal and State safety mandates.

The position will be required to efficiently operate different industrial cleaning equipment, in the appropriate areas and to understand the uses and hazards of various cleaning products.

Essential Functions Include:

Ability to:

• Operate floor care machines and other custodial tools and equipment, safely and efficiently
• Properly maintain floor care machines and custodial tools which include Heppa filters, water filtration systems, dispensing devices and proper disposal of recovery water tanks
• Identify proper attachments and their usage for all cleaning applications
• Communicate effectively with supervisors and co-workers
• Work independently to complete daily activities according to work schedules with minimal supervision
• Understand and follow written/oral instructions and Standard Operating Procedures
• Record all tasks completed on a daily cleaning journal
• Understand and follow GMP guidelines
• Inspect and maintain custodial equipment and small tools for proper operating conditions
• Identify and report equipment, food safety/sanitization, and customer issues that need to be addressed and maintained for compliance

Required Prerequisites:

Knowledge of:

• Methods, materials, chemicals, disinfectants, and equipment used in cleaning packaging equipment, food contact services, washroom sanitization, and floors
• MSD sheets and their purposes
• Procedures in cleaning and disposing of bio-hazardous materials
• Proper and safe techniques in custodial operations
• Ability to frequently lift and move 25 pounds, up to 100 pounds
• Ability to reach with hands and arms in sometimes awkward places
• Physically able to frequently stoop, climb, balance, crouch, kneel and crawl
• Able to work with protection, where noise levels in the work environment can be loud and extreme
• Will be expected to work weekends and holidays
• Ability to work in an environment with exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, airborne particles, and cleaning chemicals
• Work safely near moving mechanical parts
• Work safely in high places

Preferred Prerequisites:

• Possess a High School Diploma or GED
• Prior industrial cleaning experience
• May need to attend periodic training classes to improve skills

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 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 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