Vacancy title:
Artisan Painter

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Installation, Maintenance & Repair, Manufacturing & Warehouse, Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
Zambia Sugar

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, September 4 2026

Duty Station:
Nakambala | Lusaka

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 28 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Background

Zambia Sugar is inviting applications for the position of Artisan Painter x2 – Offcrop, under the Manufacturing Department (Nakambala). These positions report to the Maintenance Foreman – Front End.

Overall Responsibility

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.
• Ensure that there is no wastage of material.
• Diligently execute painting works as assigned by the supervisor to factory infrastructures.
• Ensure all stakeholders in the business that require the services of painting and sign-writing works are effectively and satisfactorily attended to.
• Ensure 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.
• Give technical and professional advice on work requirements to ensure conformity to accepted standards for work requests.
• Provide 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).

Qualifications and Experience

• 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).

Additional Notes

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

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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: professional certificate

Job application procedure
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Interested candidates should submit:

• Detailed CV
• Copies of relevant qualifications
• Relevant registrations
• ID/Passport

Applications should be addressed to the HR Business Partner.

Please indicate “Application – Artisan Painter” in the subject line.

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

Closing Date

4 September 2026

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

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