Sugar Cane Production Manager Kzn

7 months ago


Durban, South Africa Fempower Personnel Full time

Drive operational excellence by making informed trade-offs and driving initiatives that will deliver greatest

possible yields at optimal cost and quality levels
- Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks, minimum standards and processes for all aspects

of crop production (and removal where relevant)
- Contribute to reviewing Standards and operating procedures to sustainably improve yield and financial

performance
- Achieve yield forecasts (together with farm supervisors), ensuring that farming (and crop removal where

relevant) activities are prioritised and planned in a systematic and cost effective way to optimise profitability
- Provide alignment between Crop Production Farms plans and Factory production Crush plans to

achieve budget cane volumes and quality in line with S&OP
- Coordinate and approve annual crop production and harvest plans with farm managers, including crop

establishment and husbandry across estate
- Develop, monitor and manage cane production budget and resource plan, with inputs from farm managers

and service departments
- Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance

with critical behaviours, and including managing consequences where required
- Develop and implement a programme to Identify and address problems and improvement opportunities

with Farm Managers
- Identify and implement sustainability initiatives such land and water conservation to prevent soils erosion,

soil degradation, pollution and invasive weeds and to improve water footprint and quality,
- Drive synergies across the group, effectively partnering with optimisation function and group counterparts

to identify, share and embed opportunities for optimisation
- Provide input into business cases for key capital projects in Agriculture and support delivery
- Oversee effective talent and performance management, and build a strong leadership team and talent

pipeline within crop production, by coaching, mentoring and guiding farm supervisors
- Identify and monitor KPIs and balanced scorecards, track performance and flag any issues with individuals
- Promote and adhere to Illovo’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those

relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)

Must have:
South African ID

South African Degree or Agricultural Degree

Must have managed a 1000 ha of sugar cane production

Must have managed Farm Managers

Must have managed Farming and Production Staff

High acumen for numbers and budgeting

High CAPEX projects list


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