About Us

Wilmar Sugar Australia is part of Wilmar International, a leading global agribusiness with around 100,000 employees working across more than 30 countries and regions.

Across Australia and New Zealand, we operate two major business units, Sugar & Renewables and Sweeteners, employing 2,400 people during peak/ seasonal operations with corporate offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville and Auckland.

As Australia’s largest raw sugar manufacturer and a top 10 global producer, Wilmar Sugar & Renewables runs eight sugar mills across North Queensland. We are also one of the nation’s largest generators of renewable electricity from biomass, a major producer of bioethanol, the largest sugarcane grower, and a key supplier of sustainable fertiliser and stockfeed.

About the Role

As a Reliability Engineer within our Electrical Instrumentation Control (EIC) Team, your primary role will involve formulating site strategies, plans, and objectives aimed at optimising assets to enhance sugar cane crushing and sugar recovery operations across our eight North Queensland factories and Bioethanol Distillery.

This is a full-time position offering flexibility in location, with the possibility of being stationed at any of our milling sites or in our Townsville office supplemented by occasional travel to other locations as needed.

Role Responsibilities:

- Assisting in the development and management of all strategic aspects of the EIC strategy area including production, engineering, productivity, quality control, human resources and safety.




- Assisting with the preventative maintenance and capital program budget determination including contribution to cost management.
- Development of long-term asset goals, establishing and executing asset maintenance and replacement strategies, to ensure achievement of revenue generation and cost control objectives
- Assisting in consultation with the Engineering and Operational management teams to develop and implement business plans and objectives.
- Reviewing operational and financial data to identify areas for improvement and implement control methods to ensure best practice leads to business benefits.
- Identification of risks and development and execution of focused risk management strategies.
- Working closely with the Group Managers and Managers for Reliability, Engineering and Production and Technology to develop long term factory and capital plans, goals and strategies
- Assisting with the investigation process for root cause of equipment failures.
- Investigate new and alternative technologies to reduce costs and to solve known reliability concerns.
- Ensuring compliance with reliability processes, work management practices, procedures and technical standards related to Continuous Improvement

Requirements





Our ideal candidate will hold qualifications in Engineering or be able to demonstrate equivalent practical experience with at least 5 years in a senior technical role in heavy industry. Previous experience within the sugar industry and familiarity with systems such as SAP and demonstrated competency with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Predictive Preventive Maintenance (PPM), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Reliability Availability Maintainability Analysis (RAM), and Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), would be highly regarded.

Recruitment Process

Applications are assessed independently and on their individual merits against the requirements of the advertised role.

As part of our recruitment process, shortlisted candidates may be required to –

- Complete interviews, assessments, reference checks and verification of qualifications, licences and work rights.
- Successful candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete any role-specific pre-employment checks, which may include a pre-employment medical assessment (including drug and alcohol screening).
- A National Police Check and other compliance requirements.

Due to the volume of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the job ads expiry, please consider your application unsuccessful.

We encourage you to apply for future opportunities with Wilmar that align with your skills and experience.

Wilmar Sugar & Renewables is an Equal Chance Employer.

📌 Reliability Engineer (Townsville)
🏢 Wilmar Sugar
📍 Townsville