Artisan Painter

Zambia Sugar Plc. is an ABF Group sugar company and is the leading sugar producer in Zambia. Its main activities are the growing of sugar cane, the production and marketing of sugar and other sugar downstream products.

Zambia Sugar carries out Off-Crop maintenance works in the Factory for a duration of up to four (4) months. The Company invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced persons to fill the following Off- Crop positions in the Manufacturing Department.

ARTISAN PAINTER x 2
These positions report to the Maintenance Foremen – Front End. The successful candidates will be responsible for providing painting and signwriting works and ensuring adherence to work specifications, standards and safe working environment.

Key Performance Areas

• Generate acceptable quality of factory maintenance works and infrastructure development.
• Ensuring that there is no wastage of material.
• To diligently execute painting works as assigned by the supervisor to factory infrastructures.
• Ensuring all stakeholders in the business that require the services of painting and sign-writing works are effectively and satisfactorily attended to.
• Ensuring that work orders are closed / done in accordance with requirements (in terms of quality, usage and specifications) and that, materials are available for the job.
• Giving technical and professional advice on work requirements to ensure conformity to accepted standards for work requests.
• Providing feedback to the supervisor on material-usage and works completed.
• Execute works as assigned by the supervisor from time to time.
• Strictly adhere to ABF’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC).

Minimum Qualifications

• Grade 12 Certificate
• Trade Test level 1 Certificate or better in Painting
• Preferably 3 years in Painting and Signwriting
• Experience in painting and signwriting works with notable references.
• Knowledge of relevant Zambian Engineering standards
• Paid up membership of the engineering institute of Zambia
• Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates verified by Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA).

Should you be interested in applying for any of these roles, please submit your detailed CV, copies of relevant qualifications, registrations and ID/Passport for the attention of HR Business Partner Email: careers@zamsugar.zm indicating “Application – ARTISAN PAINTER” in the subject line.

All internal employees are required to complete the Internal Application Form and obtain relevant signatures when applying for vacancies.

Closing date for applications is 4th September 2026.

Applicants shall be required to complete pre-employment checks (qualification, credit, security, background, and medical assessments) as part of the recruitment process where applicable.

Should you not hear from us within 4 weeks after the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.