Becoming a Sugar Mill Worker in Queensland

About this role

Sugar Mill Workers operate machines and perform routine tasks to extract juice from sugar cane to make granular sugar and molasses.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Sugar Mill Worker include:

• weighs, measures, and processes ingredients
• operates processing plant
• monitors product quality before packaging by inspecting, taking samples and adjusting treatment conditions when necessary
• cleans equipment, pumps, hoses, storage tanks, vessels and floors, and maintains infestation control programs
• regulates speed of conveyors and crusher rollers, and adjusts tension of rollers to ensure total extraction of juice from sugar cane
• moves products from production lines into storage and shipping areas
• packages products.