Careers

Job Purpose
The successful candidate will partner with the operations team to drive operational excellence across the business by coordinating the management of planning & scheduling across operations for normal, abnormal & capital activities for both seasons and off crop.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate the management of planning & scheduling across operations for normal, and abnormal & capital activities for both seasons and off crop.
• Ensure standardized ways of work, systems and processes and technical compliance.
• Accountable to ensure all asset master data accuracy and enable decision-making and optimal maintenance strategy.
• Ensure compliance to work planning & control processes & systems.
• Manage delivery of integrated off crop planning calendar on time, in full and as per integrated Illovo Off crop standard.
• Support effective execution of off crop plan monitoring progress and providing information to manage and mitigate risks and adapt as required.
• Provide input into maintenance budget development and ensure maintenance plans align to budget.
• Enable and ensure effective maintenance execution through efficient maintenance planning.
• Ensure that the CMMS System and CBM System are clearly understood, controlled, and maintained, to consistently create awareness and motivate the benefits to all staff.
• Keeping with the overall objectives of the Company by ensuring the application of the Codes of Practice SABS ISO 9002, NOSA and identifying the quality training needs and the write up of procedures to continually improve the benefits of the CMMS system.
• Support the implementation of the “Illovo Way of Maintenance” (iAMP) to ensure Illovo is the best-in-class sugar & downstream producer.
• Hold teams accountable to the highest standards of maintenance, ensuring compliance to minimum operating standards.
• Identify L&D needs within the team and manage training through business partnership.
• Optimize maintenance performance, by holding planning department accountable to achieve the highest standards of efficiencies, quality, and agreed/required standards of planning & scheduling.
• Ensure adoption and embedding of best practices as guided by the Optimization Head
• Promote cross-functional and stakeholder engagement & teamwork.
• Model Leadership behaviors, collaborating, partnering and communicating effectively within and between teams and support functions.
• Promote a culture of consistently assessing risks and driving continuous improvement throughout operations.
• Adhere to and promote SHERQ & Food Safety standards.
• Provide operations wide view of work and resource requirements for in season and off crop that allows for the cost of implementation to be visible. Scoping and reprioritization where required.
• Integrate and coordinate section resource requirements for the season and off crop to optimize resource-leveling across the operation.

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 5 years’ experience in maintenance and/or maintenance planning
• Strong organizing skills
• Good communication skills
• Proven track record within an ABFSugar Company, aligning with the company culture, is an added advantage

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Permanent Contract.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements should apply for the position on or before 23rd April 2025.

Kilombero Sugar Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.

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Job Purpose

The successful candidate will be responsible to Provide direction, technical guidance and leadership for Farm Managers in designated crop production area to ensure long-term growth, development and sustainability

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure a culture of operational excellence that drives a Focussed Improvement approach to initiatives for cost effective way to optimise profitability and achieve yield forecasts and quality levels, in collaboration with Crop Removal and Farm Managers and service departments.
• Develop, monitor and manage cane harvest plans, crop establishment, resource plan and production budget, including innovation and new technology adoption and implementation, which complies with ESG legislation and best practices.
• Monitor all farm activity data is captured accurately and consistently in CanePro and is used for data-based decision making.
• Develop and implement a Continuous Improvement programme to identify and address problems and improvement opportunities at the field level with Farm Managers and Supervisors.
• Manage agricultural risk using agreed systems and processes for mitigation
• Build a strong leadership team and talent pipeline for crop production through ongoing coaching, mentoring and guidance
• Drive effective talent and rigorous performance management within function, by identifying and monitoring KPIs to track performance, with a bias towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviors and including managing consequences where required.
• Manage sharing of identified best practices, frameworks and minimum standards, to ensure adoption of group minimum standards, processes and ways of working.
• Contribute to reviewing Standards and operating procedures to sustainably improve yield and financial performance
• Report on production performance and key adverse or positive developments to Crop Manager.
• Manage relationships with communities adjacent to Estate
• Promote and adhere to ABFs procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering or equivalent
• 5-10 years’ experience in sugar cane agriculture, responsible for managing at least 1,000 ha having demonstrated ability to lead and manage outcomes through team members
• Able to build, develop and manage teams effectively
• Able to capture, interpret and analyze agricultural performance data (cost, productivity & technical)
• Good business acumen and agricultural expertise, with ability to anticipate, interpret and respond to changes impacting on functional area
• Proven track record, preferably within an ABFSugar Company, aligning with the company culture, is an added advantage

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Permanent Contract.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements should apply for the position on or before 23rd April. 2025.

Kilombero Sugar Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.
 
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Job Purpose
To supervise maintenance employees in respective discipline to achieve maximum plant availability and equipment capacity (Maintenance Excellence) and to ensure plant realises agreed capacity and teams address areas for improvement.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and supervise the daily work and performance of each employee on assigned team, organize schedules, and assign work activity to achieve team and company objectives safely.
• Monitor performance and support and advise teams in solving problems and/or taking corrective action.
• Monitor standards for setting, operating and maintaining equipment and ensure instructions are adhered.
• Manage iAMP policy adherence to practices amongst maintenance team.
• Manage work quality to reduce rework and increase plant reliability.
• Ensure equipment maintenance and reliability for respective area and ensure maintenance plans are aligned to achieve this.
• Identify areas where equipment performance and quality management can be improved and manage the implementation of systems and processes to make improvements.
• Ensure continuous improvement by implementing functional best practices and conducting physical inspections.
• Work with Optimization and Production team to solve problems and promote cross functional engagement & teamwork
• Ensure Plant, Equipment and BOM information and WO’s are captured accurately within SAP.
• Provide teams with necessary tools and equipment to perform work effectively.
• Ensure technical and maintenance reporting from SAP is compliant with company policy and procedures.
• Manage and maintain key engineering activities guided by the Group technical risk guidelines.
• Identify and monitor KPIs to track performance and flag any issues

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
• 3 years of working experience in Manufacturing with specific references to sugar factories?
• Extensive experience using planned maintenance systems, especially SAP

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Permanent Contract.
All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should apply for the position on or before 19th April 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.



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Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the foreign exchange exposure, liquidity, interest rate and applicable compliance risks associated with all treasury aspects for the Financial Controller. The Treasury Officer must design and utilize tools to anticipate, communicate and mitigate these risks in a timely manner

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Continuously assess the most efficient cash management strategies and advise the Financial Controller and Group Treasury of any required/appropriate changes.
• Implement and maintain efficient cash management procedures to minimize financing costs by ensuring cash, held in low interest-bearing accounts, is applied against borrowings.
• Obtain approval from Group Treasury for the opening and closing of bank accounts. Ensure bank accounts remain relevant and fit for purpose to reduce complexity and ensure that any dormant accounts are closed immediately.
• Ensure bank charges are negotiated and reviewed regularly.
• Monitor, assess and manage the liquidity risk of the operations by developing and using efficient cash forecasting tools, understanding the economic environment and ensuring adequate headroom is available on short term facilities.
• Timely communicate pending liquidity risks and implement mitigations to the Financial Controller.
• Negotiate facilities with banks in conjunction with Group Treasury and Group Legal obtaining final approval before execution.
• On a continuous basis review and negotiate interest rates with banking counterparties to optimize finance costs.
• Monitor banking covenants providing early warning and mitigation for potential breaches to the Financial Controller and Group Treasury.
• Ensure timely repayment of loan capital and interest in accordance with agreements.
• Ensure the cash, debt and interest forecasting tools are efficient and aligned with the official submitted forecasts.
• Understand variances related to net debt, finance costs and exchange gains and losses. Report on reasons for variances to Group under the reporting requirements.
• Carry out all reports relating to Treasury as required by the Group and the operation.
• Assess foreign currency risk through the development and/or use of risk management tools and raise early warning flags for the Financial Controller to ensure that these risks are effectively managed.
• Ensure the hedging strategy per the group policy is relevant to the operations and adhered 
• Manage controls around hedge execution and recording of accounting transactions.
• Ensure the foreign exposures of the operation are adequately hedged according to the hedging strategy and group treasury policy
• Review and manage the updates to signatories for bank accounts and dealing mandates ensuring these are always relevant and up to date.
• Facilitate the addition and removal of users on the business online platform in liaison with Bank.
• Review and/or prepare the monthly group entity treasury report for submission to Group Treasury.
• Ensure all treasury processes are documented.
• Maintain an inventory of all finance agreements (including significant clauses and covenants), security given, guarantees and letters of comfort.
• Prepare any necessary treasury related documentation for board approval.

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration or equivalent
• Not less than 2 years relevant working experience
• CPA Certification will be an added advantage
• Good business analysis skills to generate business insight, add measurable value.
• Exceptional accounting and reporting skills.
• Goal-orientated and committed to delivering quality outputs.
• Good self-management practices and able to work well in a team.
• Ability to work with people at various levels of the business.
• Ability to priorities, manage complexity and deal with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to manage across multiple entities to meet deadlines

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on a Permanent Contract.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, please apply for the position on or before 21st April 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.
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