Regional Training Manager at Sandvik

• The Underground Drilling Technical Services team has an excellent opportunity for a Regional Technical Training Manager to focus on upskilling technical teams working at customer interface. This position is based at Sandvik South-Africa Johannesburg and reporting directly to our global technology and manufacturing center for drilling equipment in Tampere, Finland. You will be working in close collaboration with technical teams in sales organizations in Africa as well as the underground drilling team in Tampere.

Your mission

You will be part of the Underground Drilling Technical Services Team, and your duties include:

• ensuring our service organizations in Africa have the necessary technical competence to manage with underground drilling equipment fleet
• designing and delivering training programs for underground drilling customers
• providing hands-on training to customers and to Sandvik technical teams in Africa
• upskilling Sandvik technical teams in Africa to master optimized drilling and to maintain underground drilling equipment
• demonstrating underground drilling digital training simulators as training tools
• creating training material
• applying modern learning methods, technical solutions, and way of working
• evaluating training effectiveness
• providing feedback to product development

Your background and what we find important

• We expect that you have energetic, innovative and proactive way of working combined with good communication and leadership skills. You have a suitable technical education with relevant work experience in technical support or technical training, including good understanding of earth moving equipment and digital solutions. You possess knowledge in mechanics, electrics, hydraulics, and/or automation. Experience in mining or tunneling environment is considered a big plus. You are outgoing and curious to understand modern learning techniques and methods and keen to apply those in the mining industry. As we operate in multi-cultural and international setting, you communicate fluently in English and other languages are a considered a benefit. Travelling within African continent is a natural part of your job.