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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 Factory Manager, located at the Caro Factory.

Job Summary:

The Factory Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing daily operations of the factory. This role involves coordinating and optimizing production processes, ensuring product quality, managing personnel, and implementing safety and efficiency measures. Daily operations include sugar beet processing, juice and extract campaigns, molasses desugarization and wastewater treatment. Strategic planning for asset management through R&M and capital planning. Manges budget and cost control for factory operations and ensures conformance with the organization's financial controls, policies, and objectives. The Factory Manager plays a crucial role in safety leadership, meeting production targets, maintaining compliance with environmental regulations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives within the facility.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintains and assures all OSHA and maintenance safety procedures are followed.
• Manage all processes impacting environmental operations to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Sets business goals, performance standards and expectations through objectives and result tracking.
• Sets specific targets and timelines to achieve production goals, tracking results, providing feedback, and taking corrective actions as appropriate.
• Develop and manage the operations budget for the facility including R&M, capital planning, payroll, operating costs, and losses through forecasting, tracking, and reporting.
• Collaborate with customer service and QA, investigate quality issues, and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure all employees comply with regulatory & company requirements for personal and facility safety.
• Enforce safety and conduct regular safety audits, training employees on best practices.
• Provide site leadership for continuous improvement processes within the operations department.
• Work with direct reports to optimize process and equipment maintenance to minimize downtime.
• Oversee maintenance team, reliability initiatives and R&M to maximize plant efficiency.
• Identify and implement training and development for succession planning to ensure the necessary people skills and resources are applied currently and in the future.
• Set continuous business development plans including identification and submission of capital and extraordinary maintenance projects to improve facility operations.
• Ensure Feed and Food safety program compliance as they relate to USDA and SQF.
• Ensure effective administration of overall performance management, including performance evaluations and provide feedback for employee development.
• Recruit, train, and manage a skilled workforce to ensure optimum plant operations.
• Maintain effective communication with senior management, providing regular updates on production status, challenges, and opportunities.
• Generate reports on key performance indicators and analyze data to drive informed decision-making.
• On-Call for emergencies 24/7 as required.

Position Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or other technical degree highly desired. Advanced certifications are a plus.

Proven experience in sugar processing with a minimum of 10 years in a managerial role.

Alternatively, 20+ years of industrial experience with progressive management responsibilities.

Excellent leadership, communication, and interpe