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 immediate, full-time opportunity for a P&W Reliability Engineer, located at the Bay City Factory, 2600 S. Euclid Ave., Bay City, MI 48706.
JOB SUMMARY
This role supports continuous reliability and plant performance improvement. Working in a team environment, it carries responsibility for implementing reliability best practices, developing and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, and supporting maintenance activities for plant equipment and processes. The position interacts with other technical groups (process engineering, capital project, plant operator and maintenance groups), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors and suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant safety and reliability performance.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Demonstrate ownership to improve plant safety performance.
- Lead and facilitate systematic design, development, definition, monitoring, and refining of asset maintenance plans including:
- Equipment criticality assessment.
- Equipment standardization.
- Spare parts determination.
- Developing and optimizing RCM based value-added preventive maintenance tasks.
- Implementation of predictive condition monitoring to proactively identify potential failures.
- Lubrication program design, implementation, analysis and monitoring.
- Developing and implementing operator care and consulting on operator work procedures.
- Work process optimization including definition of roles and responsibilities.
- Implementing proactive work management using planning and scheduling.
- Developing repair procedures and specifications.
- Qualifying repair contractors and shops.
- Applying value analysis to repair, replace, redesign decisions.
- Employee training and development.
- Providing technical support to production, maintenance, project, and process engineering.
- Lead and participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis. Develop and implement people, process, and equipment solutions to prevent repetitive failures that adversely affect plant operations including safety, environmental, capacity, quality, cost, and regulatory compliance issues.
- Coordinates with the engineering department to ensure the maintainability of new capital assets and modified installations to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability. Support reliability design evaluation, equipment selection, installation specification and controls, asset management strategy development, criticality analysis, spare parts evaluation, training development and commissioning.
- Participate in plant shut down planning, execution, and optimization activities.
- Support the development of technical, environmental and safety work procedures.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 4-year degree in mechanical, electrical, or related engineering field.
- Minimum of 2-3 years’ work experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment
- Direct training and experience in maintenance engineering practices is desirable.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Possess well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.
- Self-motivated and dedicated to effecting positive change in a traditional maintenance minded workforce, from a reactive to proactive maintenance philosophy.
- 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 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 market wages for both hourly and salaried employees, opportunity for professional growth and development, and comprehensive benefit packages that may include medical, dental, 401(k) and paid time off. 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. 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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