Packaging & Warehouse Manager - Michigan Sugar Company : Job Details

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 Warehouse Manager, located at the Croswell Factory, Croswell, MI.Job Summary:The Packaging and Warehouse Manager is responsible for managing dry sugar handling, packaging, warehousing and shipping operations efficiently to minimize costs and maximize productivity.Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervise and ensure proper staffing of employees in packaging, warehousing and shipping operations.
• Lead improvement efforts.
• Provide for training of employees in the following areas in job procedures, GMP/Food Safety and Occupational Safety.
• Handle employee complaints, grievances and discipline.
• Manage the maintenance of equipment and facilities of the sugar warehouse and silos.
• Enforce Michigan Sugar safety policies and MIOSHA regulations.
• Enforce Michigan Sugar personnel policies, the collective bargaining agreement and comply with all labor laws.
• Ensure sugar handling, packaging, warehousing and shipping operations are in compliance with 21CFR 110 Current Good Manufacturing Practices in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food. Enforce Michigan Sugar GMP policies.
• Ensure all required records under the Establishment and Maintenance of Records section of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 are maintained as it relates to immediate previous source and immediate subsequent recipient of food.
• Provide for food safety training to all Sugar Warehouse employees annually and to new employees upon hire.
• Support the Food Safety Committee as a member. Conduct monthly self-inspections according the MSC Sanitation Self Inspection Program.
• Implement the HACCP program. Ensure screens, magnets and metal detectors are being monitored according to the HACCP plan and corrective action procedures are carried-out.
• Direct the sanitation and cleaning program in and around the sugar warehouse. Maintain a Master Cleaning Schedule to direct and document sanitation operations. Maintain written cleaning procedures.
• Ensure employees are following good house keeping practices.
• Ensure the pest control program is in compliance with Michigan Sugar and AIB standards in and around the sugar warehouse.
• Respond to customer complaints in the area of package quality. Determine root causes, implement and document corrective actions.
• Conduct and document mock recalls every six months. Correct any deficiencies.
• Ensure COA's are provided with shipments when required.
• Ensure shipping vehicles picking up sugar are inspected and documented.
• Ensure deliveries of incoming ingredients and packaging materials are inspected and documented.
• Carry-out segregation procedures for non-conforming products.
• Ensure storage practices are in compliance with AIB standards. An 18 perimeter of space must be provided between stored products and walls.
• Direct stock rotation to avoid excessive age of product and materials.
• Provide for the segregation of food grade and non-food grade lubricants and segregated storage of cleaning chemicals.
• Administer glass and brittle plastic program in and around the sugar warehouse. Arrange for periodic documented audits of all essential glass and brittle plastic.
• Conduct annual locker inspection.
• Management and development of supervision and leadership through training, coaching and evaluations.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in manufacturing or management related field or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of experience preferred in manufacturing, production or packaging and warehousing operations.
• 2 years of prior supervisory experience.
• Commitment to achieve and promote a high level of safety awareness.
• Computer experience with the knowledge of Microsoft office, PeopleSoft, and Rapid software or similar.
• Experience working with collective bargaining agreement and grievance handling process preferred.

Key Competencies:

• Abilty to lead and manage a diverse group of employees.
• Ability to plan and organize priorities in a fast paced production environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to reach multiple shifts.
• Demonstrated personal leadership and positive can-do attitude.
• Ability to quickly problem solve and make decisions.
• 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 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 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#LI-AS1