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Mill Manager: Utilities & Services

Mill Manager: Utilities & Services

Sappi Southern Africa
Country:  South Africa
City:  Ngodwana
Location:  Mill Ngodwana
Department:  Pulp and Utilities
Posting date:  25 Nov 2025
Closing date:  9 Dec 2025

Join Our Team as Mill Manager: Utilities & Services


We are seeking an experienced and dynamic leader to take ownership of our Utilities and Services operations. This role is perfect for a results-driven professional who is passionate about people, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Your mission will be to ensure the Utilities and Services section delivers optimal production output with top-quality results, minimal downtime, and the highest safety standards.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop a team of Production Managers and Process Engineers, ensuring smooth and efficient operations across Chemical & Recovery, Energy, and Services plants.
  • Monitor monthly plant performance against strategic objectives and implement effective corrective actions.
  • Grow and empower your workforce through career development, performance management, coaching, and aligned goal-setting.
  • Drive cost efficiency by managing departmental budgets, controlling costs, and executing both short-term and long-term (5-year) improvement plans.
  • Prepare and consolidate capital, fixed, and variable cost budgets for the department.
  • Strengthen relationships with internal and external customers and suppliers, while contributing to strategic mill-wide initiatives.
  • Ensure full compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards, while upholding excellent housekeeping and 5S practices.
  • Champion continuous improvement, integrate business processes, and ensure accurate reporting and BBS observation performance.

 

Minimum Requirements:

  • BSc Engineering / BTech Pulp & Paper or BTech Engineering.
  • Management Qualification (advantageous).
  • 10 years’ experience in a production environment, with at least 5 years in Energy or Chemical/Recovery.
  • Minimum 5 years’ management experience.
 

 

Join Our Team as Mill Manager: Utilities & Services


We are seeking an experienced and dynamic leader to take ownership of our Utilities and Services operations. This role is perfect for a results-driven professional who is passionate about people, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Your mission will be to ensure the Utilities and Services section delivers optimal production output with top-quality results, minimal downtime, and the highest safety standards.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop a team of Production Managers and Process Engineers, ensuring smooth and efficient operations across Chemical & Recovery, Energy, and Services plants.
  • Monitor monthly plant performance against strategic objectives and implement effective corrective actions.
  • Grow and empower your workforce through career development, performance management, coaching, and aligned goal-setting.
  • Drive cost efficiency by managing departmental budgets, controlling costs, and executing both short-term and long-term (5-year) improvement plans.
  • Prepare and consolidate capital, fixed, and variable cost budgets for the department.
  • Strengthen relationships with internal and external customers and suppliers, while contributing to strategic mill-wide initiatives.
  • Ensure full compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards, while upholding excellent housekeeping and 5S practices.
  • Champion continuous improvement, integrate business processes, and ensure accurate reporting and BBS observation performance.

 

Minimum Requirements:

  • BSc Engineering / BTech Pulp & Paper or BTech Engineering.
  • Management Qualification (advantageous).
  • 10 years’ experience in a production environment, with at least 5 years in Energy or Chemical/Recovery.
  • Minimum 5 years’ management experience.
 

 

Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.

Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.

ABOUT SAPPI

Sappi is a leading global provider of everyday materials made from woodfibre-based renewable resources. As a diversified, innovative and trusted leader focused on sustainable processes and products, we are building a more circular economy by making what we should, not just what we can.

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