As a Pan Boiler at Wilmar Sugar & Renewables, you'll be responsible for the production of high-grade sugar. This includes monitoring and controlling batch pans, assessing crystal size and massecuite quality and making required changes to maintain sugar quality, while ensuring efficient and safe operations.
This position will be based at Invicta Mill in North Queensland's Burdekin region, known for its stunning landscapes, rich agricultural heritage, and a vibrant community. The Burdekin region offers a fantastic lifestyle with a warm climate, beautiful beaches and a range of recreational activities, making it a great place to live and work.
This is a permanent position in our sugar processing factory which requires shift work during the crushing season (June - December), including weekends and overtime and day work during the maintenance period (Jan - May).
Your Role in Action
- Crystal Perfection: Produce high and low grade sugar to the required quality standards by managing syrup, magma and massecuite stocks in a way that maximises factory throughput and produces quality material capable of achieving sugar quality standards while maximising sucrose exhaustion.
- Housekeeping Hero: Maintain excellent housekeeping of the pan stage area and your control room.
- Previous Sugar Processing Experience: Provide previous knowledge in a sugar operating position.
- Turn Up the Heat: Boil according to schedule
- Champion Workplace and Environmental Safety: Ensure all safety requirements are completed and that no waste products or process materials enter storm water drains or otherwise cause environmental damage.
Your Winning Combination
Our ideal candidate must be an excellent communicator and have basic maintenance skills.
Whilst the following are requirements in this role, we are prepared to provide training to people who possess the right aptitude and team fit:
- Working at Heights
- Confined Space
- Additional skills that are highly regarded for the maintenance period include: Trade qualifications and Rigger, Dogger and Scaffolder High Risk Work Licences.
The successful applicant will also be required to undertake further training to complete the appropriate Pan Boiler station and maintenance competencies.
What Wilmar will offer you
At Wilmar, you'll be embraced as a valued member of our team, appreciated for your unique contributions. We offer competitive pay and benefits, including additional leave and superannuation entitlements and exclusive partner discounts. Our emphasis on safety and innovation creates a supportive work environment where you can thrive.
How to Apply
If you think that you are the perfect fit for this role, we invite you to apply online via Wilmar Careers before 5pm on 25th June 2025. Got questions or need a helping hand with your application? Our friendly People & Culture Coordinator - Tanaeu Darker, is just a phone call away on 07 4720 2906. We look forward to receiving your application.
About Wilmar Sugar & Renewables
Wilmar Sugar and Renewables is Australia's largest manufacturer and exporter of raw sugar, and among the top 10 producers globally.
We own and operate eight sugar factories across the Herbert, Burdekin, Proserpine and Sarina regions and employ more than 2,000 people during the annual sugar production season.
We are one of Australia's largest generators of renewable electricity from biomass and one of only two bioethanol producers in Australia. We are also the largest sugarcane grower in Australia and a leading supplier of sustainable liquid fertiliser and stockfeed products.
