Process & Recoveries Engineer at Kilombero Sugar

Implementing world class practices to optimize sugar recovery and Contribute to the Optimization Strategy with a view towards 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