Website Zambia Sugar Plc
WE ARE HIRING | Agriculture Department
We are recruiting for the following permanent roles at Nakambala Estate:
Business Systems and Planning Analyst
GIS Technician
Planner Scheduler – Materials
Planner Scheduler – Mechanical
Artisan Welder
If you have relevant qualifications and experience in agriculture systems, GIS, engineering, planning, or welding, we encourage you to apply.
📧 Send your CV and ZAQA-verified certificates to:
careers@zamsugar.zm
Subject: Application – Position Title
📅 Closing date: 13th March 2026
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Zambia Sugar
An Illovo Sugar Africa Company
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Zambia Sugar Plc. is an ABF Sugar Company and is the leading Sugar producer in Zambia. Its main activities are the growing of sugar cane, the production and marketing of sugar and other sugar downstream products.
The company invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced persons to fill the following positions under the Agriculture Department:
1. BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND PLANNING ANALYST – PERMANENT x 1
Agriculture Department (Nakambala)Post a Job
This position reports to the Agricultural Optimisation Manager and operates within the Agriculture function. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing, maintaining and managing agriculture business systems for effective agriculture data analysis, with focus on components of the Planning, Forecasting and Reporting Systems.
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Key Performance Areas
Implement, maintain and manage agriculture business systems for effective agriculture data analysis, with focus on components of the Planning, Forecasting and Reporting Systems
Support the spatial data requirements of grower agriculture and other estate functions
Support site L&D team to develop GIS skills and application competence
Set up and maintain key statistics necessary for the production of Strategic plans and Budget Revisions
Support agricultural optimisation by driving a high level of data accuracy and integrity in agriculture reporting
Perform data analysis to support optimisation
Enable effective monitoring, reporting, benchmarking and decision making across the agriculture function in Country
Promote a culture of continuous improvement in agriculture data management
Decide estate optimization strategies through ongoing data analysis, research and development, and best practice scanning
Decide the business systems to be implemented or upgraded
Decide on data driven decisions to improve Agriculture growth
Spatial tracking of day-to-day operations, where applicable
Promote and adhere to ABF procedures, policies and guidelines, including those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Minimum Requirements
Grade 12 School Certificate
BSc Degree in Agriculture, Business, IT or equivalent
Preferably 5 years’ experience managing or developing systems for agricultural businesses
Ideally with some GIS experience
Good business acumen and agricultural expertise with ability to anticipate, interpret and respond to changes impacting on functional area
A formal business/commercial qualification would be an advantage
Strong analytical skills and agriculture data analysis skills
Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA)
2. GIS TECHNICIAN – PERMANENT x 1
Agriculture Department (Nakambala)
This position reports to the GIS Specialist and operates within the Agriculture function. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the development of Geographic Information System (GIS) capability and understanding on site in close collaboration with GIS Specialist, Agric Optimization, Estate Surveyor, and Business Systems & Planning Analyst.
Key Performance Areas
Acquire, process and present GIS data in a suitable format to enable precision agriculture in areas such as:
Variable rate technologies
Drone imagery processing and analytics
Controlled traffic and auto-steer technology
Agriculture tech spatial data management
Collaborate with and support GIS Specialist to codify GIS best practice into standardized work processes
Collaborate with and support Crop Production and Optimization activity functions
Facilitate data processing and interactions with the selected centralized data processing entity
Manage data and user access on the chosen ABF cloud-based spatial data repository
Prepare spatial data for projects
Improve visualization of survey data for routine reporting
Support the Optimization function in representing cost and productivity reporting in spatial formats
Support spatial data requirements of grower agriculture and other estate functions
Support site L&D team to develop GIS skills and application competence
Spatial tracking of day-to-day operations where applicable
Promote and adhere to ABF procedures, policies and guidelines including SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Minimum Requirements
Grade 12 School Certificate
Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma in GIS / Land Surveying / Agricultural Engineering / Agriculture
Preferably 2 years’ experience with GIS
Demonstrated competence in GIS, land surveying, sugarcane agriculture, drone pilot, agricultural machine control, computer programming, database management software, systems integration and agriculture data analytics
Strong analytical skills
Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA)
3. PLANNER SCHEDULER – MATERIALS – PERMANENT x 1
Agriculture Department (Nakambala)
This position reports to the Business Systems and Planning Analyst and operates within the Agriculture function.
Key Performance Areas
Ensure execution of reports, vehicle costing, fuel usage, pests and disease, farm production and crop and soil nutrient status reports
Submit reports on activities of the section/department as required
Ensure effective risk mitigation measures to reduce quality incidents to zero major or repeat findings during audits and inspections
Assist relevant managers on maintenance of Farm planners and development of Farm Planners to facilitate timely execution of farm activities
Ensure maintenance plans are aligned to reliability goals
Initiate process to add materials to the material master in collaboration with Stores and Inventory
Update job backlog status (order/notification/request)
Account for supplier and material availability by interfacing with procurement, maintenance teams and third parties
Recommend changes to routine maintenance and job plans and schedules to section managers
Accurately state spare requirements to enable material resource planning by inventory team
Develop and communicate job schedules with operations, supervisors, engineers and customers
Minimize schedule disruptions and facilitate longer term scheduling horizons
Monitor spares availability and adjust plans and schedules where required
Escalate potential schedule breakers for appropriate intervention
Lead and manage planning reporting and materials coordination with the Clerk ensuring interface between maintenance, inventory and operations is effective
Promote and adhere to ABF procedures, policies and guidelines including SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Minimum specifications / requirements
Grade 12 Certificate
Minimum Diploma in Engineering, Agriculture, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, Human Resources, Business Administration and / or any other business-related courses
Preferably 3 years work experience in heavy industry or agriculture related farm enterprise
Affiliated Member of professional body such as EIZ, AIZ, ZIHRM, CIPS
Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates which have been verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA)
4. PLANNER SCHEDULER – MECHANICAL – PERMANENT x 1
Agriculture Department (Nakambala)
This position reports to the Irrigation Engineer and operates within the Agriculture function.
Key performance areas
Develop and communicate work packages for all maintenance initiatives in season and off crop consisting of technical data and specifications, required spares and tools, timing, manpower needs, potential risks, hazards and quality control required.
Monitor standards for setting, operating and maintaining equipment and adherence to technical specifications and iAMP policy when planning jobs to ensure activities and materials are compliant.Post a Job
Flag plant modification requirements based on works order information ahead of any release of any works or order modification.
Manage iAMP policy adherence to practices amongst maintenance teams, reducing rework and increasing plant reliability.
Ensure maintenance plans are in place and aligned to achieve reliability goals.
Group work orders (equipment or area) to make the execution step more efficient.
Use, enter and maintain job plans in CMMS job plan library.
Hold final review (prior to execution) with customer and maintenance supervision and notification validation regarding job cost and benefit. Decide on recommended priority, timing and maintenance plan.
Initiate process to add materials to the ‘material master’ in collaboration with Stores and Inventory.
Update job backlog status (order/notification/request).
Account for supplier and material availability (external or internal) by interfacing with procurement, maintenance execution teams and third parties.
Recommend changes to routine maintenance and job plans and schedules to the Maintenance Engineer.
Accurately state spares requirements to enable material resource planning by inventory team.
Develop and communicate job schedules in conjunction with operations, supervisors, other customers and Engineers in season and off crop.
Minimize schedule disruptions and facilitate longer term scheduling horizons.
Monitor spares availability to scheduled dates and adjust plans and schedules as required.
Escalate potential schedule breakers to allow for appropriate intervention.
Lead and manage planning reporting, materials coordinating with the Clerk ensuring that the interface between maintenance, inventory and operations is effective.
Promote and adhere to Zambia Sugar procedures, policies and guidelines, including ABC.
Minimum specifications / requirements
Grade 12 Certificate
Craft certificate in Engineering preferably with 5 years work experience in a heavy industry environment or bulk water pumping
Diploma in Engineering preferably with 3 years work experience in heavy industry environment or bulk water pumping
Member of EIZ
Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates which have been verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA)
5. ARTISAN WELDER – PERMANENT x1
Agriculture Department (Nakambala)
This position reports to the Maintenance Foreman/Supervisor. The successful incumbent will be responsible for organizing the day-to-day welding and fitting operations, optimize motor vehicles and machinery inspections, etc. by use of various welding processes.
Key Responsibilities
Weld small and large components such as beams and pipelines.
Making hand made goods which can be easily used.
Sourcing the materials to be used in the project.
Measuring and cutting materials to specifications.
Welding materials using the correct materials to join the metals.
Provide consultation on correct maintenance and preventive measures to machine or vehicle users.
Ensure that all defects identified during specific route/machine inspections are documented on the checklist feedback and immediately plan to mitigate significant risks for closure.
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the condition of all welding equipment on a continuous basis and take responsibility for failures resulting from inadequate equipment specific inspection.
Ensure the Job Plan / Checklist on the WO is diligently followed as per the work-order tasks.Post a Job
Contribute to the RCA process in your section possessing a positive mindset and elimination of failure.
Monitor own section’s KPIs, understand your contribution to them, contribute to solutions to resolve out of spec KPIs and maintain actions to sustain KPIs being within specification.
Identify personal learning and development needs and coach and mentor other maintenance workers.
Promote and adhere to Illovo’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC).
Minimum specifications / requirements areas
Grade 12 Certificate
Craft Certificate in Welding
Proven experience as a welder
Aptitude in using various hand tools (e.g., screwdrivers, hammers, etc.) and precision measurement tools (e.g., callipers)
Member of Engineering Institute of Zambia
Preferably 2 years post experience in a robust plant environment
Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates which have been verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA)
Application Instructions
Should you be interested in applying for this role, please submit your detailed CV, copies of relevant qualifications, registrations and ID/Passport for the attention of HR Business Partner.
Email: careers@zamsugar.zm
Indicating “Application – Position Title” in the subject line.
All internal employees are required to complete the Internal Application Form and obtain relevant signatures when applying for vacancies.
Closing date for applications
13th March 2026
Applicants shall be required to complete pre-employment checks (qualification, credit, security, background and medical assessments) as part of the recruitment process where applicable.
Should you not hear from us within 4 weeks after the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.
Head Office
Nakambala Estate
P.O. Box 670240
Mazabuka, Zambia
To apply for this job email your details to careers@zamsugar.zm