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TERMS OF SERVICE: The successful candidate will be engaged on Fixed Term Contract.

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, please apply for the position on or before 28th 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.

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Job Purpose
The successful individual will be responsible for optimal onsite Inventory stock holding from both a financial and operational perspective, Inventory Operations Management and Stakeholder management.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Drives and is responsible for Working Capital Management by optimizing Inventory holding through parameter management.
• Maintain accurate inventory levels that are data driven & customer centric.
• Manage the Inventory Operations team to ensure accurate and efficient receiving/receipting/issuing of stock; and strong customer support in terms of timing and product availability (In accordance with SLA)
• Manage the Verification team to ensure weekly stock counts is managed and completed in accordance with FCFQ and related % Error KPIs. Investigate discrepancies accordingly.
• Manage finalization of the stock counting process and ensure stock adjustments are carried out timeously.
• Delegate daily workflow and manage Expeditors to ensure expediting of outstanding orders through engagement with buying team, suppliers and requisitioners to meet promised delivery dates.
• Provide guidance on prioritizing orders based on business needs and supplier evaluation to maintain OTIF targets.
• Partner with the business to implement and drive compliance to Inventory policies, strategies, processes and guidelines​.
• Supports continuous stakeholder engagement in supply and demand planning across all business functions (i.e. Off Crop, Capex projects, Packaging, Fertilizers, etc.). This includes effective delivery on agreed demand plans.
• Lead, manage and develop capability in the local Inventory teams.​
• Use analytical data and insights to partner with various stakeholders in optimizing stock holding, forecasting demand & delivering on category supply plans.
• Coordinates the ordering of Inventory items linked to demand forecasts (aligned to production and maintenance planning) for the operation.
• Uses Qlik dashboards to drive and achieve Inventory KPIs Ensure compliance to standardized Inventory management policies, strategy, processes, and guidelines, considering customer requirements.
• Ensure compliance to the FCFQ is achieved through rigorous engagement with group and internal audit (this includes maintaining relevance to current systems, policies & procedures)
• Manage the inbound logistics and customs clearance to ensure compliance to Country Regulations
• Ensure inbound clearances are obtained prior to consignment arrival at entry port (land, air and seaports)
• Manage the outbound customs declarations for temporary exports Repair and Return
• Ensure accurate application of Customs tariffs to inbound declarations and allocation of SADC/COMESA certification to avoid h high er import duties.
• Manage the Revenue Authority audits in terms of Inbound clearances, if applicable.
• Ensure Import/Export permits are applied for and available to avoid shipment delays.
• Initiate the sourcing of Forex Cover for foreign Purchases aligned to Company Policy
• Appointment and Contract Management of the 3rd Party Logistics providers (Bonded Warehouses, Clearing Agents, Freight Forwarders)

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Commerce, Engineering, or Related
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Procurement, Purchasing, Inventory or Supply Chain Management
• Demonstrated understanding of stores management and inventory management systems and processes
• Demonstrable track record in managing teams.
• Registration with Professional Board (PSPTB) preferred.
• Experience using ERP systems, preferably 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 24th January 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 for maintenance and repair of all boiler machines.
 
Duties and Responsibilities

• Boiler maintenance during steam stops and off crops.
• Operate the boiler as per set standards and procedure.
• Monitoring and controlling all boiler performance parameters.
• Controlling steam pressure and steam flow.
• Ensure safety of people and boiler.
• Ensure the working place is clean and free from any hazards.
• Ensure that all problems are reported immediately to the relevant authorities.
• Effective communication.
• Ensure boiler physical checkup is done by using the check list.
• Ensure that all running parameters recorded and logged by checking and countersigning.

Job Qualification Requirements

• Ordinary Level Certificate
• Certificate in Mechanical Engineering or Fitter Mechanic Level 1 from VETA
• Minimum of 1 year experience in a Factory environment
• Computer literate.

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 24th 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.
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Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible for operating the mill turbines, maintenance, and making sure the company’s safety, health and quality procedures are followed.
 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure all Mill Turbines and Mills are running in a specified conditions at all times of operation.
• Participate in maintenance of a mill tandem and all extraction pumps are running as per the standard.
• Ensure Mill turbines and gearboxes, and mill tandem areas are clean at all times.
• Uphold the company’s safety, health, environmental and quality policies and procedures and to ensure compliance and overhaul.
• Participate in off crop maintenance and overhaul.

Job Qualification Requirements:

• Ordinary Level Certificate
• Certificate in Fitter Mechanics Level 1 from VETA
• Minimum 1 year work experience in a Manufacturing Industry

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 24th 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 Apply here

Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible to provide accurate, relevant and timeous management reporting that enables appropriate business decision making, provide value adding and analytical insights and coordinate the budgeting, forecasting and reporting cycles to facilitate strong financial performance.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate, timely and insightful management reporting and forecasts
• Engage with budget holders to understand key drivers of costs and revenues for relevant activities and use the drivers to forecast appropriately costs and revenues
• Prepare cost dashboards to track costs and financial KPIs
• Attend monthly meetings with relevant budget holders and ensure that costs are controlled within budget
• Review phasing of budget versus actual expenditure and revenue and assist budget holders with queries
• Liaise with budget holders with regards to estimates and other changes and ensure major variances are investigated and support appropriate corrective actions to get back on track
• Execute all day-to-day activities around administration of fuel token, monthly allocation of fuel costs and preparation of accurate and timely fuel reports
• Raising of periodic purchase requisitions for various big costs elements like fuel, electricity, cane haulage and plant hire costs
• Embrace self-development and lifelong learning to stimulate continuous personal growth.
• Timely preparation and submission of month end journals to ensure appropriate financial reporting within relevant sections.

Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor degree of Commerce or equivalent 
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience
• Progress in obtaining professional qualification such as CPA/ACCA is an added advantage.
• Strong and effective communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Report writing skills.

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 24th January 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 for boiler operations and maintenance of machines and machine parts during crushing season and off crop.
 
Duties and Responsibilities:

• To ensure boiler housekeeping done and maintained
• To ensure boiler furnaces cleaned(well-deashed)
• To ensure proper bagasse management
• To oversee and manage bagasse equipment during the shift.
• To oversee feed water stations operations.
• Ensure proper condensate level management is maintained within required limits.
• Ensure boiler feed water parameters (PH, TDS, advantage, hardness&Amersite) operates within required ranges.
• To ensure boilers Mabrey flashing done as per schedule.
• To do inspections of boilers equipment.
•  Maintenance of boiler equipment's during crushing and off crop.
• To reports all boilers issues/deviation to boiler foreman.

Job Qualification Requirements:

• Certificate in Mechanical Engineering or a minimum of Fitter Mechanics Level 1 from VETA
• Ordinary Level Certificate
• Minimum one (1) year of experience in boiler operation
• Basic training in industrial safety or ability to identify hazards and asses associated risks at boiler operations.
• Ability to use non-contact thermometer
• Trained on boiler Water treatment
• Troubleshooting of feed water equipment

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

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, please apply for the position on or before 21st 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.
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Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be the Logistics Partner to Operational Readiness team and thus ensuring that the full scope of work for the Finished Goods Warehouse is delivered according to the agreed legal framework and in country SHERQ Standards.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Recommend on technical queries coming from Operational Readiness Team as the custodian (expert) of ABFS and KSC FG Warehouse Standards and Best practices.
• Assessing the interface requirement between the Finished Goods Warehouse (FGW) and incoming and outgoing flows, ensuring that the design and SOPs being implemented will be operationally practical lean and efficient. Gaps to be included in the readiness plan and action items in place to eliminate the gaps.
• Ensure that WOLO principles are implemented as part of development according to the agreed legal framework by consulting the design drawings. Gaps in WOLO standards implementation should be first assessed; improvement opportunities budgeted and prioritized; and execution planned through Operational Readiness workstream. Responsible for the deliverable in the specified timeframe.
• Assist Operational Readiness team during performance tests of the Finished Goods warehouse infrastructure, systems and equipment through a partnership in designing and getting agreement on the tests based on FSCC22000 standards.
• Responsible for the capability gap and risk assessments, developing SOPs and planning of training requirements to ensure smooth and safe integration of personnel into the new infrastructure and new ways of working.
• Agree – internally in ABFS/KSC – then with Project Team the specifications for both racking and forklifts required to be provided by them, including minimum standards of materials, construction, after sales service and functionality.
• Assist to Interpret the ABFS SAP plan for specific actions pertaining to the WMS deployment in Tanzania, aligning these key milestones to those being monitored in the build of the Finished Goods warehouse and assist with WMS UAT training.
• Sign off the design and monitor the implementation of all IT hardware Standards required by the Finished Goods warehouse.
• Development and implementation of the DILO plan for operational preparedness including coordination of a training plan required to upskill all personnel pre and post GO Live.
• Coordinate the overall design, risk and security assessment of the new Finished Goods warehouse ahead of the design of CCTV, Access control systems and sourcing of all required tenant services.

 Job Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years' experience in managing projects, with specific reference to new construction or new warehouse builds
• Leadership ability to influence others, especially third parties outside the formal organizational structures
• Ability to negotiate under duress with non-affiliated parties
• Ability to conduct technical problem solving on operations, security and equipment
• Results, performance focused and resilient
• Good working knowledge of ABFS WOLO practices and policies

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

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements should apply for the position on or before 20th January 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 maintain the efficiency of carpentry workshop by control of building materials and civil hand tools at tool store. Also, they should have an ability to read sketches, use of all carpentry hand tools, basic woodworking operations like sawing, joiner, planning, sanding and interpret.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare maintenance schedule for carpentry workshop
• Maintain the register book for civil hand tools
• Maintain the register books for timbers and other building materials
• Supervising maintenance workers- carpenters and sign writers at workshop
• Report writing on weekly performance of the workshop
• Repair of all wooden furniture and items
• Supervising the cleanliness of workshop and advise on disposing of scrapped building materials
• To encourage and strengthen innovation on sign writing techniques and technology
• To maintain standard operation procedures throughout the work schedules

 Job Qualification and Experience

• Diploma in Civil Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience 
• Attentive to details.
• Results oriented

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 17th January 2025.
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Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible for fabricating factory spares using fabrication machine facilities, issue welding materials to welders, advice welding and fabrication support on tools and materials and ensuring good housekeeping.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Fabricates by using welding facilities.
• Ensure best engineering and quality standards are met. (Development of different structure.)
• Perform Arc welding, Plasma cutter, Profile cutter, oxy-acetylene gas, Mig and Tig welding as per required standard and specification.
• Operate fabrication shop machinery i.e. bending brake, roller, Guillotine & Cropper etc.
• Direct workers in the repair of boilers, tanks, and pressure vessels. 
• Responsible for the safety conformance of all crews and take control of workmanship.
• Monitor performance, support, and advise teams in solving problems and/or taking corrective action.
• Ensures good housekeeping by inspecting welding and fabrication premises.
• Ensures requests welding materials from stores by writing MRV/Reservation (SAP system).
• Reconditions factory spares by welding example pump shaft, coupling and other spares.
• Selecting electrodes for welding various machine components by using welding materials technology skills.
• Ensure continuous improvement by implementing functional best practices and conducting physical inspections.
• Perform all tasks with “awareness” towards the prevention of any forms of pollution to the surrounding and environment.
• Promote and adhere to Kilombero Sugar Co Ltd procedures, policies, and guidelines, including without limitation, those relating to Safety, healthy, Environment, Risk and Quality (SHERQ).

Job Requirements:

• Minimum Form Four certificate.
• Welding and fabrication Grade I.
• 2+ years in fabrication workshop.
• Completed necessary training modules for C.A.D, BUP, CAP, Welding and Workshop Safety.

Terms of Service: The successful candidate will be engaged on Permanent Contract.
All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, please apply for the position on or before 28th 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.
  Apply here