Lubricants Technical Field Engineer (Kathu) at TotalEnergies

Activities

• Challenge is to achieve an effective balance between daily operational issues whilst focusing on high delivering high-level strategic business objectives for TMSA.
• Identify financially viable solutions for customers to ensure long term sustainable and profitable business in a highly contested market .
• Building proof of good performance of products in applications through Value in Use projects
• Other internal and external constraints which make this job challenging are an uncertain regulatory environment, general skills shortage and high subsequent turnover; BBBEE compliance for people management, building trust and managing/convincing engineers technically.

Candidate Profile
Strategy:

• Develop and maintain the lubricants' strategic roadmap for sales, marketing and technical.
• Lubricant sales : The Lubricants Technical Support Engineers will form part of the team reporting to the Lubricants Technical Field Manager – Mining & Industrial Lubricants and shall be responsible for a given area to maintain current business and grow business. To participate in developing the strategy to improve the current service offering by both Technical and the Specialist aimed at assisting TMSA to improve the profitability of the accounts and customer service. The focus will be Technical Sales Support to the allocated customers and/or area through face-to-face customer visits and meetings.

HSEQ

• Ensure adherence and compliance to company HSEQ and security standards, (Golden rules, Near-miss reporting, TOT rules and safe driving behavior), to minimise risks to company assets and protection of personal life.

To effectively manage and minimise HSE risk within area of responsibility by ensuring:

• Compliance with all HSE Policies, rules, guideline and legal requirements
• Promotion of safe working environment and positively contributing to the company HSE KPIs and risk reduction strategies
• That HSE competency requirements are identified & enforced within area of responsibility

Governance

• Ensure effective risk management and internal control. This includes asset management for the area of direct responsibility.