Job description
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 Continuous Improvement Specialist, located in Croswell, MI.
Job Summary:
The Continuous Improvement Specialist will work directly with site union and management to become familiar with the operations of our organization. This position will be assigned tasks and projects based on education level, degree, skill set, and other opportunities based on current business needs.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Help develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for assigned areas of the factory that meets applicable standards.
- Develop training for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and assist factory management in the roll-out of these training programs.
- Analyze current and future SOP’s to maintain continuity of style and development.
- Participate with the factory management team at Key Performance Indicator (KPI) meetings.
- Perform quality assurance on all materials.
- Proactively inform factory management about project status, issues and concerns.
- Actively identify and make recommendations for improvement in the documentation and review process.
- Additional tasks assigned by management.
Position Qualifications:
- College graduate (Business, Communications, Technical Writing, Chemistry, Engineering or any related field) is preferred.
- Experience in computer use and Microsoft Office suite.
- High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others.
- Excellent communication skills for interacting with factory staff.
- Ability to convert technical knowledge into easily understood terms.
- Proofreading and editing skills.
- Ability to ascertain information about current organization practices and how to go about organizing and capturing practices and procedures.
Required Training Upon Hire:
- General factory safety requirements (Right to Know)
- Food-related Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Food related SFQ practices
- Relevant Toolboxes
Key Competencies:
- Ability to work flexible hours, based on factory needs.
- Ability to work in a fast paced and varying environment.
- Demonstrated personal leadership and strong conflict resolution skills.
- Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate values.
- Ability to multi-task and handle multiple priorities.
- Lead by demonstrating ethics and integrity, display drive and purpose, demonstrated capability to learn and manage self.
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 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
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