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Michigan Sugar Company Packaging and Warehouse Mechanic in Bay City, Michigan
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Tradition. Pride. Excellence. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day?
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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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 small
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