Sugar Boiler Technician
About The Position
The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, producing a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products. They operate sugar refineries across North America and Europe, and also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills. The ASR Group® portfolio includes leading brands such as Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworths®. Additionally, they produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware product. The Sugar Boiler Technician operates and controls the sugar crystallization pans, evaporators and syrup production on a continental shift.
Requirements
- Analytical Thinking & Decision Making – Identifies and understands trends and/or issues; connects data points through analysis to arrive at a logical conclusion.
- Effective Communication – Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner by tailoring one's message to fit the interests and needs of the audience.
- Establishes Trust – Gaining the confidence and faith of others by actions and words that promote being honest, forthcoming and vulnerable.
- Problem-Solving – Anticipates, evaluates, diagnoses, and resolves problems in a systematic and fact-based manner.
- Results Orientation & Accountability – Takes accountability, identifies, executes and drives actions to consistently achieve desired results.
- Teamwork & Collaboration – Creates a climate that fosters a commitment to a common vision and shared values that promote cooperation and working together through trust and support of others.
- Confidently operate a computer control system to control process equipment in an environment that demands a high level of multi-tasking.
- Experience with meeting tight quality parameters and making decisions to change the process operating settings to achieve the desired results is key.
- Experienced enough to exercise sound judgement with safety, quality and people issues, work independently and be able to make quick decisions.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in sugar refining or similar industry is a big advantage.
- A science or engineering qualification is preferred.
- 5 years of experience in the sugar or food process industry is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Achieve the required standards of quality for white and speciality sugar production.
- Operate the pans within the constraints of the process, e.g. steam supply, tank levels and maintenance requirements
- Manage the remelt pans to meet the required standards of sucrose extraction from the remelt syrups
- Manufacture the syrups for yellow syrup production, speciality syrups for Liquid loads, and customer orders within specification
- Diagnose problems in the operation using the WonderWare control system, laboratory database and independent observations. Able to then make the required decisions to resolve them to support the plant goals. Multiples (6) Computer screens
- Operate the evaporator system and interact with shift supervision, Stationary Engineers to balance steam flow
- Start up and Shut down of evaporator and vacuum pan systems during both routine and emergency stops.
- Operate and control the white sugar crystallization pans.
- Operate and control the remelt sugar crystallization pans
- Manufacture the syrups required for the yellow and speciality syrups for production
- Operate and control the liquor evaporators and vapour systems
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
