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Form of workExcellence. 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 Reliability Engineer at our Caro Factory.
Job Summary:
The Reliability Engineer is responsible for evaluating, analyzing data providing root cause analysis to maintain assets and improve equipment reliability. In this engineering role, the Reliability Engineer is responsible for predictive and preventative maintenance programs using technical aspects based on solid engineering principles.
The position will be in a key role to develop and implement maintenance excellence through professionally developed programs, systematically defined, designed, monitored as needed for preventive (PM) and Predictive (PdM) processes.
Job Responsibilities:
- Coordinates with the maintenance department to ensure PM/PdM services and inspections are scheduled and performed, and resultant corrective work is promptly performed ensuring equipment reliability.
- Management of predictive programs, vibration, thermography, non-destructive testing, and interpretation of data.
- Assist maintenance department with equipment inspections, adjustments, replacements, overhauls and improvements for factory equipment reliability and asset protection.
- Perform corrosion, abrasion, cyclic stress/fatigue, metallurgic and other associated environmental and design factors which affect equipment life.
- Assuring efficient and reliable operation of the factory equipment and process, while protecting and prolonging the economic life of assets at optimal cost.
- Identifies and develops engineering solutions to repetitive chronic failures, costly equipment problems through the analysis of equipment history and root cause analysis.
- Provides technical advice to maintenance and operations for proper rotating equipment alignment, balancing, and assembly/disassembly procedures.
- Implements methods to reduce maintenance occurrence failures:
- Increase Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
- Decreases Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
- Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and purchase/replacement decisions.
- Develops a standardized program that influences the selection of materials, equipment and spare parts.
- Remains abreast of and applies advancing maintenance technology as applicable.
- Coordinates with factory management and engineering department to ensure the maintainability of new capital projects and modified installations.
- Ensures that spare parts list, equipment manuals, and prints are provided for all new installations and that they are consistent with established standards.
- Participates in the final check out of capital and project installations.
- Establishes and documents maintenance procedures for all new installations, including updating standard operating procedures (SOP’s) as needed.
- Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems.
- Oversee lubrication program management, making recommendations for proper lubrication and economics.
- Be involved with developing programs for above ground storage tank integrity, pressure vessel inspections and process piping systems through non-destructive testing.
- Assist maintenance teams with developing and maintaining 5-year budget plan for all essential and proposed work.
Position Qualifications:
- Minimum 4-year Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or work experience and education providing the necessary skills to be successful in the position.
- Minimum of 3-5 years work experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment
- Direct training and experience in maintenance engineering practices or maintenance excellence programs 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 the self 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 salary, opportunity for professional growth, and provides excellent medical insurance 100% company paid. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. 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 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 eight 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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