Electrical Instrumentation & Control Plant Engineer

About the Company

Joining Sunshine Sugar as the Electrical, Instrumentation & Control (EIC) Plant Engineer at their largest and most diverse manufacturing site represents an excellent opportunity to continue developing your career and experience while living in the enviable lifestyle location of the Clarence Valley region on the NSW North Coast.

Sunshine Sugar is an Australian-owned and operated sugar manufacturer at the forefront of producing raw and refined sugar products using globally recognised and certified sustainability practices throughout the entire business.  It is the world's first refined sugar producer to achieve this standard across its entire supply chain from farming to packing.

About the Role

Reporting directly to the Harwood site's Engineering Manager, you will lead an EIC team comprising dual tradespeople (Electrical and Instrumentation), an Electrical Engineer and a Maintenance Planner, all of whom are engaged in a wide range of breakdown, maintenance and project activities.

The primary focus of the role is the delivery of a critical and comprehensive electrical engineering service, covering all of the site’s electrical, instrumentation and control assets, and ensuring all assets are utilised and maintained efficiently and safely, and are compliant with electrical standards and regulations. Actively contributing to the development of a continuous improvement culture and assisting with the optimisation of systems and processes also form an important part of the role.

The position is based at Sunshine Sugar’s Harwood site, which features a separate sugar mill and sugar refinery. The site has the most diverse footprint in sugar manufacturing across Australia, with sugarcane crushing at one end and high-speed packaging of final sugar products at the other. The Harwood Mill & Refinery is located along the Clarence River, near the seaside and river communities of Yamba, Iluka and Maclean.

Key Requirements

• Proven people management and technical leadership experience within a continuous industrial process, servicing electrical, instrument and control equipment in a reliability-centred maintenance-based environment
• Extensive experience in the application of Australian standards, acts, regulations, company standards and specifications as they pertain to the EI&C field
• Proven experience in the management of safe systems of work, e.g., via risk assessments, safe work method statements, low-voltage isolation, high-voltage isolation and access
• Proven skills and experience in planning, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting on maintenance and capital project activities and co-ordination of breakdown restoration.
• Competence in electrical design, modification, addition, repair and electrical verification compliant with AS 3000 in an industrial context.
• Demonstrated experience in the management of change for electrical and programmable equipment
• Previous experience leading the development, storage, maintenance and use of plant records, e.g., calculations, test reports, electrical drawings and P&IDs etc
• Demonstrated working knowledge and skills in high and low-voltage distribution, protection systems and process control, e.g., DCS, PLC and SCADA
• High-level technical problem-solving skills: including the ability to identify and resolve EIC issues in a safe, timely and thorough manner.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and to lead and mentor a trade and apprenticeship maintenance team.
• Well-developed computer application skills, e.g., Microsoft suite and Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Demonstrated working knowledge of electrical licensing requirements in NSW

Desirable Requirements

• Relevant skills and experience in sugar milling and refining or similar heavy industry (Preferred)
• Certificate III Trade qualifications in electrotechnology and instrumentation & control (Advantageous)
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with 5+ years of relevant postgraduate experience (Preferred)
• NSW Qualified Supervisor Certificate - Electrician (or equivalent Australian electrical licence) (Advantageous)

Enquiries
For a confidential discussion, please contact:
Alex Dundler – Refined Recruitment Solutions
📞 [+61 (0) 412 597 348](tel:+61 (0) 412 597 348) (available 7 days, including after hours)
📧 [email protected]