Step into a day as our Mechanical Systems Specialist
You start your shift reviewing equipment status, planning inspections and alignments that keep production humming. Mid-morning, you’re swapping critical components, balancing rotating assets, and dialing in installation tolerances. After a quick sync with Production, you weld and fabricate a custom fix—SMAW/GMAW on carbon steel, SMAW on stainless—so the line performs at its best. By day’s end, you’ve optimized equipment performance and set the plant up for a smooth night.
Where you can make an impact
- Execute inspections, component replacements, precision alignment, balancing, installation, and refurbishment to sustain reliable operations.
- Understand operating principles and a machine’s role in the full factory process to drive optimal performance.
- Partner closely with Production to ensure maintenance interventions fit operating parameters and deliver results.
- Perform joining and fabrication: weld, cut, braze, and solder a variety of materials, including SMAW/GMAW on carbon steel and SMAW on stainless steel.
Locations
Openings in our factories in Moorhead, MN; Hillsboro, ND; and East Grand Forks, MN.
Qualifications
- Option 1: 2-year technical degree (Industrial Technology, Manufacturing Technology, Mechanical Design, Machinist & Toolmaker, or related) OR fully completed state-approved millwright apprenticeship (non-ACS), plus a minimum of 2 years of full-time industrial millwright experience.
- Option 2: High School diploma or GED and a minimum of 5 consecutive years of full-time industrial millwright experience.
Assessments and safety
- Candidates will be required to take a millwright, welding, and basic skills test.
- Candidates will be required to submit to and successfully pass a Safety Screen that evaluates their ability to execute the duties and tasks defined for this position safely.
Compensation
$33.78 - $38.31/hr
Schedule
Dupont rotation of day and night shifts. 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM (day) and 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM (night). Successful candidates must be able to work BOTH day and night shift schedules.
Benefits from day one
- Medical and free dental care available on day one; paid dental; vision insurance.
- Pension and 401(k) with Company match.
- Paid basic life insurance; paid short-term disability; voluntary long-term disability; additional life insurance options.
- HSA and flexible spending accounts.
- Paid time off, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and paid holidays.
- Tuition reimbursement, service awards.
- 24/7 employee assistance program with access to eight complimentary visits with a licensed counselor.
Core proficiencies
- General and mechanical troubleshooting
- Preventive maintenance and inspections
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Mechanical testing and assembly
- Machine safety inspections
- Meets physical requirements
- High School / GED
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Basic computer skills
How to apply
Complete the full application on CrystalSugar.com/careers:
- For the Moorhead Factory - HERE
- For the Hillsboro Factory - HERE
- For the East Grand Forks Factory - HERE
Please note: our process includes a complete application submitted through our company website and an in-person interview; no job offers are made without an in-person interview first. You may receive an initial series of automated screening questions via text message; this is not an interview or a guarantee of an interview, but it will help us evaluate your fit for the position.
Equal Opportunity
American Crystal Sugar is an equal opportunity employer.