Technical Manager – Citrus Processing Operations

Job description / Role

Technical Manager - Citrus Processing Operations - Ethiopia

We are representing a leading international Agricultural company with large citrus and tropical fruit operations in Ethiopia.

They are a rapidly growing company with 1500 ha of citrus and tropical fruit planted; they also have a processing and distribution plant on site.

The successful candidate will be responsible the equipment and technical aspects of processing plant.

The primary responsibilities will include:
• Ensure the equipment is operational
• Evaluation of plant performance
• Evaluating problems and finding effective solutions.
• Quality improvement and implementation of new plant
• Cost reduction in utilities consumption and improvement in process yield

Requirements

Essential requirements:
• Day to day trouble shooting, repair and installation of industrial electromechanical & control systems for utility & production equipment.
• At least 5 years’ experience of working in Juice Processing or similar.
• Strong experience working in mechanical systems
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Ability to diagnose problems and deliver on time solutions
• Fluent in English
• Knowledge of Africa is a major advantage
• Educated to BSc level in Chemical Engineering or similar as a minimum

If you are interested in the position please apply online.

Alternatively please forward this on to anyone that might be interested.

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.