Process & Recoveries Engineer

Reporting to: Manager/Supervisor

Job Purpose

Implementing world-class practices to optimize sugar recovery and Contribute to the Optimization Strategy with a view toward long-term growth, optimal efficiency, and sustainability.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive production, recovery and extraction initiatives that will deliver products at volume, cost and quality levels that drive profitability.
• Drive synergies with the group, effectively partnering with group counterparts to identify, share and embed opportunities for production optimization.
• Provide expertise on complex, multi-faceted production issues, support and advise on solutions.
• Model and simulate factory balance to understand bottlenecks and key efficiency drivers, and use the model to propose solutions, drawing on factory real time data.
• Contribute to production & Supply Side plans and monitoring of compliance to plans.
• Optimise cost of production.
• Conduct regular internal and external benchmarking exercises to identify and develop Production best practices and improvement opportunities.
• Address all technical process audit findings.
• Monitors factory effluent quality and quantity to ensure that any effluent disposal is within specification.
• Support production teams in developing the necessary skills and experience to meet current and future needs.
• Ensure enablers are in place to promote success (e.g. systems and processes)

Job Qualification and Experience

• BSc in Chemical, Process or Chemical and process Engineering.
• 3 years experience in Sugar production and a sound knowledge of the factories.
• Track record of technical leadership and process design engineering experience.
• Good data analysis and interpretation skills.
• Deep Root Cause Analysis skills and experience.

Terms of Service

The successful candidate will be engaged on a Fixed Term.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should apply for the position on or before 13th January 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Kilombero Sugar Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.