Process Engineer - Military Veterans

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 Process Engineer, located at the Croswell Factory.

Job Summary:

The Process Engineer is responsible evaluating existing processes and configuring systems to maximize recovery of sugar while reducing cost, improving sustainability, and developing best practices within operations. This includes process design, operation and implementation of projects spanning one to five years assuring project accuracy and quality.

The Process Engineer works with the engineering department and factory personnel to determine equipment requirements for process and coordinate purchase and installation. This includes defining scope, budgets, P&ID's, drawings, specifications and bid packages. Local travel is required to all factories located up two hours away. The Process Engineer works with factory personnel to assess processes, measure and interpret data, perform process simulations, risk assessments, provide process documentation and operating instructions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical assistance, review KPI data & determine methods to improve process operations.
• Provide training, start-up & handoff support to factory personnel for operations and asset management.
• Investigate & troubleshoot problems that arise with processes, procedures and operations.
• Evaluate project equipment, building & infrastructure needs, develop project budgets, schedules and P&ID's.
• Prepare, schedule, coordinate and monitor assigned engineering projects.
• Review engineering deliverables (budget, schedule, planning) and report regularly on project status.
• Develop structural, mechanical, electrical & instrumentation layouts with internal & external disciplines.
• Monitor compliance to applicable codes, practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications.
• Coordinate with support groups for environmental, safety, power and controls services for projects.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering or a related engineering field.
• Completion of Michigan Sugar Company's management trainee program or 3-5 years' experience in related field.
• Proven work experience as a Process Engineer preferred.
• Process modeling (Aspen, MATLAB) and AutoCAD drafting experience.
• Strong technical experience and working knowledge of ASME boiler, pressure vessel and piping codes.
• Experience specifying process equipment such as piping systems, pumps, heat exchangers, evaporators, centrifuges, chillers, tanks, filters, air compressors, water treatment systems, boilers, turbines and equipment unique to the sugar industry.
• Experience specifying bulk material handling equipment such as belt &screw conveyors, bucket elevators, mixers, screeners, bins, scales, packaging equipment, and explosion protection equipment.

Key Competencies:

• Strong communication skills
• Proficient skills in MS Office products, process modeling and AutoCAD.
• Ability to work well with others in a team environment.
• Provides model behavior to demonstrate corporate values.

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 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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