Mill Manager

PT SMART,Tbk; Sumatera Selatan; On-site; IDR 800,000,000 - 1,200,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PT SMART Tbk in Indonesia seeks a Senior Operations Supervisor to oversee palm processing facilities, drive quality and production efficiency, and coordinate with plantations across mills. The role requires a mechanical engineering background and 8+ years of relevant experience, with willingness to be based in multiple mills nationwide.

Ideal candidates will manage staff, ensure SOP compliance, monitor costs, and safeguard assets while maintaining strong external relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
• 8+ years of experience in a similar role, exposure in oil palm is a must
• Willing to be based in any Mills assigned throughout Indonesia

Responsibilities

• Monitors and guides operations to ensure smooth functioning per SOPs
• Approves and signs procurement requests for materials and operating expenses
• Coordinates with plantations to ensure quality and supply of FFB
• Reviews and signs operational reports and follows up on issues
• Ensures security of all company assets
• Oversees changes to working hours and enforces proper implementation
• Makes rapid decisions during critical situations with reporting to supervisor
• Builds and maintains relationships with external parties
• Reviews financial and administrative procedures for accuracy and compliance
• Approves and signs factory operation funds and expenses (PDO/PPDO)
• Signs outgoing letters for internal and external purposes
• Monitors weighing and QA of FFB and palm products
• Ensures adequate staffing and competence of operating personnel
• Oversees FFB grading per SOPs and sampling
• Ensures factory machines operate normally through production
• Monitors water and material usage to stay within standards
• Maintains stock levels and timely delivery
• Ensures certificates and permits for factory machines remain valid
• Ensures critical materials are available in warehouse and prevents delays
• Verifies preventive maintenance and machine overhaul schedules
• Controls all factory Opex including wages, overtime, premiums, materials, services, admin costs

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Job description

Coordinates with the plantation to ensure the continuity of quality and supply of FFB from the plantation.

Job Description

Operational :

1. 1. Provides guidance periodically to all levels below him/her to make sure the entire operation goes well in accordance with the procedures.
2. 2. Approves the request and expense of materials and all other requirements to support the factory operation.
3. 3. Coordinates with the plantation to ensure the continuity of quality and supply of FFB from the plantation/third party .
4. 4. Reviews and signs all operational reports and follows up immediately if found anything that need to be followed up.
5. 5. Be responsible for the security of the entire assets of the company.
6. 6. Ensures the decision of changing the process working hours is implemented.
7. 7. Takes a quick and appropriate decision when faced with critical and emergency conditions along with a reporting process (oral or written) to his/her superior.
8. 8. Builds a good relation with external parties.

Administration :

1. 1. Reviews and ensures that all financial and administrative procedures are carried out accordingly.
2. 2. Reviews and be responsible for the accuracy of all reports submitted to the management (daily, weekly and monthly) with comments if necessary.
3. 3. Approves and signs request of the factory operational funds as well as the operational expenses (PDO and PPDO).
4. 4. Signs all outgoing letters for both internal and external purposes.

Supervising, Monitoring, and Coaching :

1. 1. Monitors and ensures all received FFB and shipped palm products has been through the correct weighing process and administered properly.
2. 2. Monitors and ensures all employees required for the operation of the factory are sufficiently available and they are all competent.
3. 3. Monitors and ensures the FFB grading process are done based on sampling and set SOPs.
4. 4. Monitors and ensures that all factory machines are operating normally throughout the production process.
5. 5. Monitors and ensures the use of water and the materials are always controlled and according to the standard.
6. 6. Monitors and ensures the stocks of palm product are in good quality, available in a minimum amount, and immediately take actions if there is a delay in delivery.
7. 7. Monitors and ensures the certificate and permits of all the factory machines are still valid.
8. 8. Monitors and ensures that the critical materials are always available in the warehouse and the entire warehouse stock is in controlled to keep the production proses running without delays.
9. 9. Monitors and ensures the preventive maintenance and machine overhaul runs according to schedule.
10. 10. Monitors and ensures all factory operational expenses, including wages, overtime, premiums, usage of materials, cost of services, and administrative costs, are controlled and according to the standard.

Job Requirements

Preferably holding bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering

Minimal 8 years of experience in similar role, exposure in oil palm is a must.

Must be willing to be based in any Mills assigned throughout Indonesia.

PT SMART Tbk (SMART) is one of the largest, publicly-listed, integrated palm-based consumer companies in Indonesia committed to sustainable palm oil production.

SMART’s palm oil plantations cover more than 138,000 hectares (including smallholder farmers). Our primary activities are cultivating and harvesting oil palms, processing fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) into crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel, and refining CPO into value-added products such as cooking oil, margarine, and shortening. We operate 16 mills, four kernel crushing plants and four refineries across Indonesia.

Besides bulk and industrial oil, SMART’s refined products are also marketed under several brands such as Filma and Kunci Mas. Today, these brands have been recognised for their high quality and command significant market share in their respective segment in Indonesia.

Founded in 1962, SMART was listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 1992 and is based in Jakarta. A subsidiary of Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), SMART has the oleochemical business, Sinarmas Oleochemical (PT SOCI MAS) and the SMART Research Institute (SMARTRI) within its operations.

PT SMART Tbk (SMART) is one of the largest, publicly-listed, integrated palm-based consumer companies in Indonesia committed to sustainable palm oil production.

SMART’s palm oil plantations cover more than 138,000 hectares (including smallholder farmers). Our primary activities are cultivating and harvesting oil palms, processing fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) into crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel, and refining CPO into value-added products such as cooking oil, margarine, and shortening. We operate 16 mills, four kernel crushing plants and four refineries across Indonesia.

Besides bulk and industrial oil, SMART’s refined products are also marketed under several brands such as Filma and Kunci Mas. Today, these brands have been recognised for their high quality and command significant market share in their respective segment in Indonesia.

Founded in 1962, SMART was listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 1992 and is based in Jakarta. A subsidiary of Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), SMART has the oleochemical business, Sinarmas Oleochemical (PT SOCI MAS) and the SMART Research Institute (SMARTRI) within its operations.

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