Weigh Person Leader

Safety First. 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 seasonal opportunity for a Truck Weigh Person Leader, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S. Euclid Ave., Bay City, MI 48706.

JOB SUMMARY

The employee is responsible for overseeing the Scale House to ensure safety of workers and fluency of operations during our beet-receiving season at factory proper and outlying piling ground locations. Employee is also responsible for weighing vehicles and collecting tickets to record delivered material data.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Staff and schedule employees as required, and to train, oversee, evaluate and develop team members.
• Keep simple records.
• Coordinate and schedule Scale House employees on a weekly basis.
• Work with supervision to identify new opportunities for growth and improvement as well as potential failures through continuous improvement observations.
• Help maintain compliance with good safety standards.
• Performs operating sequences to receive and exit vehicles through incoming and outgoing scales.
• Assists in checking all components of the weigh scale system to assure everything is in working order.
• Maintains a control environment in scale house to ensure proper operation of the computerized scale system.
• Assists in performing key starting instructions on command printer as necessary.
• Operates traffic control devices to allow vehicles to proceed to pilers and exit from facility.
• Issues receipts to vehicle driver and collects tickets.
• Performs minor maintenance and repair work on scale computers and printers.
• Answers phone, record messages and provide routine information.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

• Possess a High School Diploma or equivalent
• Possess a valid license to operate a motor vehicle in the State of Michigan or ability to get licensed in the State of Michigan
• Working knowledge of computer applications such as spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail and database software
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand and communicate sufficiently to perform the essential tasks of the position
• Prior Scale House experience
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrates courtesy, alertness, and dependability
• Demonstrates 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

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 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. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 140,000 acres of sugar beets each year in 17 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 approximately 1,000 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 $90 million and its annual local economic impact is about $700 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

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