Current Vacancies at Rubicon Energy & Automation

Responsibilities:

• Integrate and align sales plans for assigned customers
• Prepare action plans for effective search of sales leads and prospects within assigned sales regions
• Develop profitable and sustainable sales growth through engagement with current and potential customers within the assigned sales region
• Perform B2B sales activities
• Strive to meet and exceed sales goals as assigned by the Division Head of Lighting and Sales Manager
• Schedule regular, in-person customer meetings (set targets to be met),
• Establish and maintain productive, long term professional relationships with decision-makers at customer organizations and create action plans for follow-up; Key accounts could require monthly/weekly visits
• Close and grow sales through professional communication and interaction with current and potential customers and provide exemplary customer service throughout the sales cycle
• Collect and maintain information on the accounts, organization, budget, and preferences of current and potential customers; Be well versed in the customer’s problems and goals
• Manage and interpret customer requirements – speaking with clients to understand, anticipate, and meet their needs.
• Maintain high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards
• Support customers with technical advice
• Create and maintain account plans for assigned customers and value opportunities
• Communicate sales or service opportunities and customer concerns or suggestions
• Identify, investigate, track and resolve customer concerns or complaints, identify trends, implement solutions, and recommend a course of action on how to alleviate these in the future
• Coordinate sales team to provide exemplary service to customers and work closely with other company departments to prevent and resolve issues in project designs, stores, or logistics
• Research sources for developing prospective customers for information to determine their potential
• Expand market awareness of our products and our industry experience by communicating features and benefits of our products and services effectively
• Maintain records of customer communications and contact information as required through the relevant internal platforms (e.g. HubSpot; NetSuite)
• Prepare Quotes
• Attend and participate in trade shows, conferences, and other marketing events
• Maintain awareness of pertinent client information, payment performance; communicate and client information that may affect company decisions to appropriate departments as needed
• Communicate market requirements and market data with sales teams and managers

Role requirements are:

Essential:

• At Minimum a Matric/NQF4 equivalent
• Proven track record of 3 yrs as an External Sales Consultant with Lighting industry experience (not negotiable)
• Must have relevant industry experience and knowledge
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Own vehicle and valid unendorsed driver's licence

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Sales Support Consultants responsibilities:

• Fulfill support functions to sales consultant and their duties
• Manage and interpret customer requirements – speaking with clients to understand, anticipate, and meet their needs both electronically and via telephonic communication
• Prepare Quotes, Sales Orders, and Requisitions. Follow up on quotes, sales orders, and backorder reports
• Maintain awareness of pertinent client information, payment performance; communicate all client information that may affect company decisions to appropriate departments as required
• Schedule regular calls to customers
• Develop profitable and sustainable sales growth through engagement with current and potential customers within the assigned sales region
• Maintain high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards
• Close and grow sales through professional communication and interaction with current and potential customers and provide exemplary customer service throughout the sales cycle
• Establish and maintain productive, long term professional relationships with decision-makers at customer organizations and create action plans for follow-up; Key accounts could require monthly / weekly follow-up's
• Expand market awareness of our products and our industry experience by communicating features and benefits of our products and services effectively

Role requirements are:

• Matric/NQF4 equivalent essential
• Proven track record of at least 2-3 yrs as a Sales Support Consultant
• Engineering technical sales support background an advantage
• Computer literate
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Presentable and professional
• Driver's Licence advantageous
• Time management skills / flexibility
• Multitasking and ability to work independently
• Bi-lingual, English and Afrikaans

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Role responsibilities:

• Overseeing the execution of projects, ensuring that all related activities are performed in accordance with the Sustainable Buildings policy, contractual agreements, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements, financial targets and schedule commitments
• Establishing the project execution approach, and overseeing project hand-over, execution planning and monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals
• Defining all project plan documents in relation to scope, budget, schedule, and risk management.
• Monitoring each stage of project implementation to ensure harmonization and best practices in terms of production and testing, cost control, resource efficiency, risk management and health, safety and the environment
• Identifying, analyzing and addressing project risks, with the regular sharing of lessons learnt.
• Coordinating contract negotiation and claims with customers, in collaboration with the Sales team, Supply Chain, Fianance and Legal functions
• Oversee team development and standardized process development to continually improve effectiveness of project and production teams
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, acting as the key contact for the internal R&D team and the end customer as an escalation point for project issues
• Managing all aspects of the project to agreed-upon customer requirements, ensuring all technical, safety, quality and financial targets are met, and relevant guidelines are followed
• Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and acknowledgement by the customer

Role Requirements

• Degree/Diploma in Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronic Engineering or equivalent would be an advantage
• PMP certified or equivalent is a plus
• Minimum 5 years in Project Management of electrical system integration projects
• Experience in the Energy &/ Building Development industry
• Proven knowledge, skills and experience to lead all project execution activities in the area of responsibility
• Knowledge of project management processes and tools, e.g MS Office, MS Project, e.g.
• Proven record of Portfolio management of multiple projects with differing complexities and nuances simultaneously
• Experience in the management and leadership of a team of professionals in particular where project team members are geographically dispersed
• Good Techno-commercial capabilities
• Result oriented and strong leadership skills
• Valid Driver's licence

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Internal Sales Assistant responsibilities:

• Fulfil support functions to sales consultant and their duties.
• Manage and interpret customer requirements – speaking with clients to understand, anticipate, and meet their needs both electronically and via telephonic communication.
• Prepare Quotes, Sales Orders, and Requisitions. Follow up on quotes, sales orders, and backorder reports.
• Maintain awareness of pertinent client information, payment performance; communicate all client information that may affect company decisions to appropriate departments as required.
• Schedule regular calls to customers
• Develop profitable and sustainable sales growth through engagement with current and potential customers within the assigned sales region.
• Maintain high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.
• Close and grow sales through professional communication and interaction with current and potential customers and provide exemplary customer service throughout the sales cycle.
• Establish and maintain productive, long term professional relationships with decision-makers at customer organizations and create action plans for follow-up; Key accounts could require monthly / weekly follow-ups.
• Expand market awareness of our products and our industry experience by communicating features and benefits of our products and services effectively.
• Maintain records of customer communications and contact information as required through our CRM system.

Role requirements are:

• At Minimum a Matric/NQF4 equivalent
• Proven track record of at least 2-3 yrs. as an Internal Sales Assistant
• Bi-lingual, English, and Afrikaans.
• Experience with ERP systems to process quotes, orders, and invoices. (NetSuite prefered)
• Computer literate with practical experience with Microsoft office Programs such as Excel, Work and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work under pressure as it’s a fast-growing division.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Presentable and professional.
• Time management skills with flexibility.
• Multitasking and ability to work independently.
• Driver's Licence advantageous.

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What we would like you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent coursework in a related specialized field.
• 3+ years’ work experience in a relevant field
• Broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas: Business Analysis, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Support.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Interaction with and support the Product Owner to analyze their need and find solutions and fulfil the role of the Product Owner when deemed necessary for the prioritization of requirements.
• Work with business stakeholders to gather business requirements.
• Works with subject matter experts to get functional and non-functional requirements.
• Communicate these needs clearly and effectively to both business and technical
• stakeholders.
• Interact with users to get end-user requirements and feedback.
• Use various requirements gathering, analysis and elicitation methods to gather and validate requirements considering Agile best practices. Setup and run sessions to gather requirements in consideration of various stakeholders.
• Assists analyzing stakeholder objectives and the underlying issues arising, including investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.

Requirements Documentation

• Breakdown high-level requirements into smaller manageable tasks using for example the TIES method (Theme, Initiative, Epic, User story).
• Create User stories with various types of requirements, process flow, UI/UX designs and wireframes, and relevant acceptance criteria which serve to define the scope of the required works.
• Consolidate and confirm requirements, changes and sign-off from various sources and platforms and maintain one source of truth and reference for documentation.
• Document risks, decisions and actions within the project scope and the strategy and management.
• Produce specific business cases and scenarios and defines and documents system acceptance criteria.
• Prioritization or Backlog Grooming
• Ensures that issues, blockers, and uncertainties are mitigated effectively in an Agile approach.
• Works with the Product Owner, or works as a Product Owner to prioritize delivery.
• Supports the day-to-day needs of Scrum teams in understanding customer and business requirements.
• Liaise with the development team for estimation effort of work using appropriate sizing methods.
• Maintains a steady backlog of User Stories, tasks and bugs that are ready to go into sprints for the Scrum team.
• Performs backlog quality assurance of ensuring items going into sprints have all the required detailed information necessary for the planned and their successful implementation

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Writing medium to complex systems and applications using best software development practices.
• Investigating issues and requests received from Clients regarding Rubicon products and services.
• Assisting with ad-hoc reporting.
• Assisting with data manipulation, database changes and database design.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build new features.
• Conducting beta testing and testing code for robustness, usability, and general reliability.
• Fixing bugs and improving application performance.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Maintain code integrity and organization.
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Experienced with back-end programming languages {{Ex: .NET, JavaScript etc.}}
• Experience using JavaScript libraries and frameworks {{Ex: AngularJS, KnockoutJS, ReactJS etc.}}.
• Development experience for both mobile and web is favourable.
• Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools {{such as Git, or SVN}}.
• Analysing documentation and providing time estimates for tickets.

Experience includes but is not limited to:

• 3+ Years’ experience in software development.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and implementing large, complex, high performing web applications
• Ability to consistently learn new technologies and development methodologies
• Advanced problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent time management and organization skills
• Solid understanding of the systems development lifecycle, Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Understanding of databases and application services (e.g. queues, caching).
• Proficiency in web API development (SOAP & REST)
• Proficiency in web development concepts and frameworks (MVC, REST, JSON), SOAP and XML are a plus
• Strong proficiency in modern software development practices (SDLC and Agile)
• Proficiency in object oriented development concepts and practices
• Knowledge of SQL with the ability to write/optimize complex queries in an RDBMS environment
• Comfortable working in every part of a complex application and to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Programming skills to include but not be limited to C#, MVC, JavaScript/JQuery, SQL, LINQ, and HTML.

Key Skills and Qualifications include but are not limited to:

• Degree/Diploma in Computer Science or related IT field.

Front-End Skills

• Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• CSS pre-processors like Sass or LESS
• JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS, React, or Amber etc.
• Libraries like jQuery or Backbone.js
• Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap

Back-End Skills

• API design and development
• CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• RESTful Services
• Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Server-side languages like JavaScript, and .Net
• Database technologies like SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical thinker with advanced technical knowledge and a solid understanding of computer systems, mobile device, databases, and other technical products.
• Creative individual with the ability to quickly pickup on new languages, technologies and frameworks.

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Responsibilities

• Conduct research and deconstruct our users’ digital interactions and habits.
• Come up with UI and UX strategies based on our target goals.
• Create and maintain digital assets, such as interface design files, wireframes, and interactive mock-ups
• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.
• Understand the limitations of our tech stack and business model and provide technical advice wherever necessary.

Skills

• 2+ years’ experience as a front-end developer.
• 2+ years’ experience as a UI/UX designer.
• A portfolio that demonstrates both JavaScript proficiency and understanding of SOLID design principles (plugins, node packages, etc.).
• Expert knowledge of CSS, CSS extension languages (Less, Sass), and CSS preprocessor tools.
• Expert knowledge of HTML5 and its best practices.
• Proficiency in designing interfaces and building clickable prototypes using {{ Ex. MoqUps, Sketch, InVision, Axure, etc. }}.
• A history of deconstructing user behaviour to create an improved experience for users, showcased in the form of blog posts, articles, screencasts, etc.
• Proficiency using Git version control.
• Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Knowledge in JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS, React, or Amber etc.
• Libraries like jQuery or Backbone.js
• Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap

Key Skills and Qualifications include but are not limited to:

• Degree/Diploma in Computer Science or related IT field.

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Office Coordinator responsibilities are:

• Manage office supplies inventory and place orders
• Participate in vendor relationship management
• Help other teams with basic administrative tasks, such as redirecting calls, circulate correspondence, scheduling meetings and so on
• Ensure that office workflow procedures are followed with maximum efficiency
• Manage and oversee the maintenance and general housekeeping of Rubicon facilities.
• Manage files and records with the help of filing systems. Manage the archives with systematic procedures.
• Control office expenditures and office contracts including contracts relating to all facility related service and functions.
• Undertake basic bookkeeping activities
• Respond to general customer complaints or issues

Office Coordinator requirements are:

• Matric/NQF4 level qualification is essential
• 2-3 years' experience of working as an Office Coordinator or other relevant position
• Tertiary Qualification in business administration or other relevant area will be advantageous
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with good patience and professionalism
• Experience with basic bookkeeping principles and office management systems and procedures would be preferred
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office
• Good practical experience with office equipment
• Experience in customer service
• Organized and reliable with prioritizing and multi-tasking abilities