Application deadline: 5 days left · 18 Nov 2026
Job description
OPERATIONS MANAGER — PRESSCANE LIMITED
📍 Duty Station: Chikwawa, Malawi
📧 Apply by email: careers@pressethanolmw.com
📅 Deadline: 18 November 2026, by 15:00 hrs
PressCane Limited, an ethanol producer, is recruiting an Operations Manager to join its Executive Team and lead production, engineering, maintenance, utilities and environmental operations.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
- A postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
- At least 10 years’ industrial experience, including five years in senior operations management.
- Proven leadership in continuous-process manufacturing, production optimisation and plant reliability.
- Strong commercial, financial, environmental and multidisciplinary-management capability.
- Experience in ethanol, sugar, chemical-processing or bioenergy industries is an advantage.
Key responsibilities
- Lead operations across the Distillery, Effluent Treatment Plant, Biodigester and CO₂ plants.
- Drive production efficiency, cost optimisation and operational targets.
- Oversee engineering maintenance, asset reliability, energy management and utilities.
- Ensure effective effluent treatment, environmental compliance and sustainable resource use.
- Lead operational budgeting, risk management, performance monitoring and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate operational readiness and strategic-project commissioning.
- Lead and develop multidisciplinary operational teams.
How to apply
Email an application letter, detailed CV and contact details for traceable referees to careers@pressethanolmw.com.