Factory Chemist

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?

Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity at its Sebewaing Facility for a Factory Chemist.

A Factory Chemist at Michigan Sugar is responsible for management of the Process, Product Quality Assurance, and Environmental Labs. The Chemist will also manage all Feed and Food Safety Programs which include conducting annual trainings, inspections and audits for the factory. This position requires the ability to perform sugar, by-product and chemical analysis, as well as technical accounting for the sugar process.

Analytical wastewater responsibilities include environmental testing and regulatory reporting.

• Analyzing lab data to trouble‑shoot process issues for sugar manufacturing, molasses desugarization (chromatographic separation) and environmental.
• Factory Quality Assurance Program
• Management of all Feed & Food Safety programs (SQF & HARPC)
• Training and auditing laboratory staff in analytical procedures
• Safety and productivity of the 24-hour, 7-day week laboratory crews
• Inventory control and reporting including physical inspections

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or related field
• Minimum 10 years experience
• Strong leadership abilities
• Understanding of chemical analysis and quality control
• Able to acquire HARPC, PCQI and SQF certifications
• Good communication skills
  
  Proficient skills in MS Word and Excel
• Willing to relocate to the Bay City area

• Ability to deliver results working within collective bargaining agreement
• People leadership and strong conflict resolution skills
• Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions
• Demonstrated 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
• 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

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