Job Vacancies at Faurecia

Main purpose of the role

• To support the Customs and Duties function in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of import and export documentation, customs declarations, duties, taxes and related compliance activities.
• The graduate will assist in maintaining compliance with South African customs legislation and company procedures while supporting cost control, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential responsibilities and duties

Customs and Import/Export Administration

• Assist with the preparation and verification of import and export documentation.
• Support the processing of customs declarations and tariff classifications under the guidance of experienced team members.
• Verify commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, certificates of origin and other relevant shipping documents.
• Track incoming and outgoing shipments and follow up on customs clearance delays.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date customs records and filing systems.

Duties, Taxes and Cost Control

• Assist with the calculation and verification of customs duties, VAT and other applicable import charges.
• Reconcile customs invoices against supplier invoices, clearing-agent statements and purchase orders.
• Monitor customs-related costs and identify discrepancies or potential cost-saving opportunities.
• Support the preparation of monthly reports on import costs, duties and customs expenditure.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Assist in ensuring compliance with applicable SARS Customs and Excise requirements and other relevant legislation.
• Support the maintenance of records for internal and external audits.
• Identify and escalate documentation errors, duty discrepancies and potential compliance risks.
• Assist with monitoring customs documentation validity and submission deadlines.
• Support the administration of applicable permits, rebates, exemptions and customs authorisations where relevant.

Stakeholder and Supplier Coordination

• Liaise with clearing agents, freight forwarders, suppliers, procurement, finance and warehouse teams.
• Follow up on outstanding documentation and shipment status updates.
• Assist with resolving queries relating to customs clearance, duties and shipment delays.
• Maintain effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Reporting and Continuous Improvement

• Compile customs and duties reports using Excel and relevant company systems.
• Maintain shipment trackers and customs documentation registers.
• Identify opportunities to improve administrative processes, accuracy and turnaround times.
• Participate in departmental improvement initiatives and other supply chain projects.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Qualifications and position requirements

• Education : National Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, International Trade, Finance, Accounting or a related field

Knowledge and experience : 

• Basic understanding of import/export processes and customs procedures is advantageous.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Good numerical and analytical skills.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to organise multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Languages: Good communication skills

Closing Date: 10 November 2026

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Main purpose of the role

• The YES HSE Graduate will be responsible for guiding management regarding HSE processes and requirements to ensure legal compliance per legislation and the application of the Group’s HSE policy, procedures and systems.

The main missions will be to gain development and learning on the following:

As a HSE Graduate, your main responsibilities are as follow:

• Assist in collecting data for FR1T, FR2T 9 (Incident reporting and investigation) etc and report such on a monthly basis to HSE Manager.
• Monitor and manage the distribution of Transversal memos throughout the plant and ensure that they are signed and recorded both on the system and in the file and actions have been closed.
• Encourage and enforce reporting of all incidents using the near miss/ incident report process
• Conduct Daily Audits and follow a set Gemba tour.
• Assist in facilitating training sessions and provide training where needed within the plant.
• Facilitate committee meetings throughout the year.
• Taking of minutes during HSE Committee meetings.
• Monitor HSE & Security PDCA’s.
• Assist in conducting Audits in all areas of the plant including ISO 14001 & 45001 Audits.
• Monitor and manage the use of general PPE in all areas of the plant.
• Prepare filing and ensure that document control is also respected and followed on a daily basis.
• Handle IOD enquiries from Department of Labour
• Issue permits where needed on the line
• Handle and manage contractor permits SSW.
• Manage and continue to improve the current HSE Training centre
• Assist in all other issues related to HSE that may not be specified in the job description
• Report all HSE & Security related inconsistencies to HSE & Security Manager on a daily basis
• Administer and manage HSE improvement ideas submitted
• Coordinate and manage clinic activities
• Coordinate and maintain FES Requirements

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Qualifications and position requirements:

Minimum Qualification requirements:

• National diploma in Industrial/ Mechanical Engineering or National diploma equivalent qualification in HSE Management / Environmental Health / Environmental Management or relevant field.

The ideal gradaute should have: 

• Knowledge of HSE tools and methods: 5 why methodology, Work Instructions, audits, ISO 14001, ISO 45001.
• Proven written and oral communication skills at all levels with good coordination abilities
• Established teamwork principles with outstanding business operational ethics
• 0 - 1 years of experience in a HSE capacity.
• Age between 18-35 
• Never been registerd with the Y.E.S Youth Program before. 
• Able to speak, write and read english. 

Closing Date: 10 November 2026

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Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Main Purpose of the role:

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities for equipment, robots, automated cells, welding systems, and plant infrastructure, according to the assigned area of responsibility, ensuring optimal operation, maximum availability, and reliability while complying with the organization's safety, quality, cost, and productivity standards.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• Attend the shift start-up meeting (Top 5 Meeting).
• Comply with the Internal Work Regulations, the 7 Mandatory Safety Rules, the 13 Logistics Safety Rules, and all company policies.
• Ensure compliance with safety, health, and environmental standards while promoting a safe work culture within the maintenance area.
• Plan, coordinate, and supervise preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs for production equipment, robots, welding systems, automated devices, and plant infrastructure.
• Ensure availability and reliability of production assets, minimizing unplanned downtime.
• Monitor key maintenance KPIs such as OEE, availability, MTBF, MTTR, preventive maintenance compliance, and maintenance costs.
• Analyse performance indicators to identify trends and equipment conditions and establish action plans that drive positive results.
• Manage and develop maintenance personnel (supervisors and technicians), allocating resources, setting priorities, and promoting continuous training in automation, robotics, controls, and welding technologies.
• Coordinate the resolution of critical failures using root cause analysis methodologies and corrective actions to eliminate recurrence.
• Ensure compliance with preventive and predictive maintenance schedules, including timely inspections, calibrations, and equipment preservation activities.
• Maintain and update technical documentation, including maintenance plans, failure histories, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic diagrams, and control programs.
• Ensure compliance with Quality Management System requirements (IATF 16949), including internal, external, and customer audits related to maintenance activities.
• Coordinate continuous improvement, reliability, and technology modernization projects aimed at increasing equipment efficiency, reducing costs, and improving operational performance.
• Participate in the installation, startup, and validation of new equipment, automated production lines, and projects, ensuring efficient integration into manufacturing processes.
• Follow FORVIA/Faurecia Excellence System standards in daily work.
• Maintain 5S standards within the work area.

HSE responsibilities in terms of:

• Risk assessments
• Contractor Supervision
• Mandatory Legal Audit (OSH Act & Regulations) Compliance
• Environmental Regulations
• Attend company-required training and apply acquired knowledge.
• Comply with the Code of Ethics and report any violations.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Qualification/s

• Degree/National Diploma in Maintenance Field. (Electrical/Mechanical Engineering)

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience in the maintenance field (preferably in companies with similar technologies).
• Minimum 2 years of experience in supervisory, coordination, or maintenance team leadership positions.
• Experience implementing and managing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Experience managing maintenance performance indicators (KPIs)
• SAP ERP System knowledge – for MRO Stock Control
• Experience in failure analysis and problem-solving using continuous improvement and reliability methodologies (RCA, 5 Whys, Ishikawa, FMEA, etc.).
• TPM Levels 1-5; resource planning and management (backlog, shutdowns, budgeting).
• Equipment reliability (RCM).
• Computer literate, especially MS Excel and Word.  SAP-R3 advantageous
• Awareness on Information Systems, Cybersecurity compliance.
• Good communication skills
• English required

Technical Knowledge that would be advantageous:

• PLC/Automation troubleshooting, programming experience
• Computer Maintenance Management System experience (e.g. Pragma/SAP PMM)
• Root Cause Failure Analysis

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Essential responsibilities and duties

• The Commodity Leader is responsible for driving the implementation of the commodity strategy, ensuring alignment with global purchasing policies, and delivering performance objectives across quality, cost, and supply.
• The role requires close collaboration with internal stakeholders and suppliers to achieve strategic goals and maintain compliance with established standards.

The main missions of the role are:

• Delivery of commodity strategic plan
• Commodity-specific metrics
• Performance versus business SLAs
• Business stakeholder satisfaction
• Supply performance
• Compliance and risk management

Organizational impact and personal development

• Support the Commodity Director / Manager in development of strategy for his/her commodities
• Implement the commodity strategic purchasing process, under management of the GCD (e.g., launch RFx, manage catalog, …)
• Provide insights into specific suppliers, markets and business factors
• Ensure compliance with global policy

Your profile and competencies to succeed

• Minimum Education Level: Prefer Diploma/ degree in business, purchasing or engineering.

Experience :

• Prior experience with purchasing / strategic sourcing or sales is highly desirable

Skills and competencies :  

• Strong negotiation skills
• Purchasing financials skills, including data analytics, budgeting and savings calculation
• Business sense / strategic thinking ability
• Drive, creativity and willingness to learn
• Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills
• Proficient in English

Nice to have 

• Experience in global commodity management and advanced analytics tools

Closing Date: 30th October 2026 

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• The Series Buyer is responsible for improving the supplier performance in production (quality, cost, delivery) for several plants, in line with purchasing strategy.

The main missions of the role are:

• Contribute to the identification and implementation of productivity actions (product / process) for cost reduction, in close coordination with Commodity teams.
• Monitor productivity performance for supplier perimeter through cross-functional teamwork in the plants under his/her responsibility (i.e. productivity committees). Present to the plants management board the productivity plan
• Challenge Commodity Buyers to achieve the Purchasing Budget for his/her plants.
• For most critical topics, support the Supply Chain team to improve supplier deviation in mis deliveries Per Million (MPM)
• Be involved in the kickoff in program phase to prepare the start of Production. Lead transfers meetings with Program Buyers at the take-over. 
• Lead negotiation for Engineering Change Requests within his/her perimeter, and product productivity, in close relationship with commodities. 

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Education Level: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or Business. 
• Specialization in international purchasing or supply chain preferred

Experience : 

• Minimum 3 years experience in purchasing, production, quality or sales. 
• Automotive experience preferred. 

Skills and competencies :

• Knowledge of productivity / lean management methodology
• Knowledge of production, quality and logistics
• English fluency
• Ability to work in matrix organization.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Nice to have: Knowledge of products and technology. Supplier audit process and quality management

Closing Date: 30th October 2026 

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Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Main purpose of the role

• The incumbent supports the Program Manufacturing Leader, Chief Engineer, Program Core Team and plant teams with analysis, documentation, coordination and follow-up across product industrialisation, production system development and launch activities.
• Build manufacturing program capability while providing reliable technical and administrative support that helps the team deliver safe, feasible, cost-effective and launch-ready production processes.

Essential responsibilities and duties:

 Program coordination and team support

• Support the tracking of manufacturing work-package tasks, milestones, risks, actions and deliverables.
• Prepare meeting inputs, update action logs and follow up agreed actions with relevant owners.
• Assist with information flow between the Program Manager, Program Manufacturing Leader, Industrial Program Leader, plant teams, suppliers and other functional leaders.
• Participate in Program Core Team and manufacturing reviews, capture decisions and maintain accurate records.
• Escalate delays, technical concerns or missing information to the responsible engineer or leader.

Product manufacturability and process definition

• Assist with the preparation and update of the Initial Process Concept, Process Definition and supporting manufacturing documentation.
• Contribute to concurrent engineering activities with Product Development and Quality teams to support design for manufacturing.
• Help document process or product changes and maintain change records under the direction of the responsible engineer.
• Perform basic technical analysis, time studies and data checks using approved methods and templates.

Production System Development

• Assist with Preliminary Manufacturing Footprint Analysis and the preparation of facility planning inputs.
• Participate in Equipment Design Workshops, Cardboard Workshops and other standard production line definition activities.
• Collect technical and cost information required for Capital Expenditure Requests and product costing.
• Maintain capacity study inputs, equipment lists, vendor timing plans, key dates and open-point registers.
• Track manufacturing assumptions such as work content, material consumption, cycle time, scrap, rework and launch costs.

Production launch support

• Support plant launch-readiness activities, trial preparation and production ramp-up.
• Assist with equipment, tooling and gauge pre-acceptance activities and ensure observations are recorded and followed up.
• Provide practical support during process qualification, Production Part Approval Process activities and production trials, including PT, MPT and EMPT where applicable.
• Collect trial results, organize evidence and assist in preparing concise status reports.

Targets, reporting and continuous improvement

• Assist in maintaining dashboards and reporting for manufacturing objectives such as capital expenditure, direct labour or work content, cycle time, changeover time, scrap, rework, material cost and launch cost.
• Support the consolidation and quality check of manufacturing work-package deliverables and mandatory program deliverables.
• Participate in Industrial Design Workshops and improvement activities, contributing observations and structured problem-solving support.
• Identify opportunities to standardise templates, improve data quality and simplify routine reporting.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

• BTech, BEng, BSc Eng or equivalent qualification in Mechanical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Manufacturing or a related engineering discipline.
• Recent graduate or candidate with up to two years of relevant internship, vacation work or entry-level experience. Automotive or manufacturing exposure is advantageous but not essential.
• Basic understanding of manufacturing processes, engineering drawings, problem solving and quality principles.
• Interest in production systems, industrialisation, equipment, tooling, process validation and program launch.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Experience with data analysis or project-tracking tools is advantageous.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Willingness to work in plant environments and travel to suppliers or other sites when required.

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Your mission, roles and responsibilities

The Purchasing Commodity Graduate is responsible for improving supplier performance in producution (delivery, cost, quality) for the plant , in line with the purchasing strategy.

• Assist in contributing to the identification and implementation of productivitity actions for cost reduction, in close coorindation with commodity/ productivity team and the plant.
• Assist in monitoring productivity performance for supplier perimeter through cross-functional teamwork.
• Assist productivity team to achieve the Purchasing Budget
• Be involved in the kick off in program phases to prepare the start of Production
• Promote and maintain a strong cyber security culture within the organization.
• Ensure compliance with company information security policies, procedures, and standards.Identify, report, and mitigate cyber security risks that may impact business operations.
• Support data privacy and confidentiality requirements in line with applicable legislation and company policies.
• Participate in cyber security awareness initiatives and training programs.
• Ensure the secure handling, storage, and transmission of company and customer information.
• Work closely with IT and relevant stakeholders to implement and maintain cyber security controls and best practices

Your profile and competencies to succeed

• Eduation : National Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Purchasing, Supply Chain or a Business related qualification
• Knowledge and experience miniumin of 1 year experience
• Knowlege of productivity/ lean management methodology
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowlege of products and technology
• Strong commitment to data protection, confidentiality, and risk management.

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• The role of a Process Technician is to support process development and improvement, validate product innovations; Ensure development and deployment of process standards, design checklist and guidelines, best practices; and support programs, plants and suppliers for process issues; and maintain a tooling and equipment database.

Main Missions are to: 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, tooling and equipment
• Support production or parts suppliers to solve problems related to his/her field of expertise.
• Maintenance of series production: engineering change management: analyse, validate and implement process modifications related to his/her field of expertise.
• Maintain a local database of tooling and equipment to support capacity management.
• Programs: feedback existing status and plant’s recommendations for process issues; participate to tooling and equipment follow-up and validations and support reception and start-up of tooling and equipment.
• Standards and best practices: ensure application of process standards; identify best practices for his/her expertise network.
• Simultaneous Engineering: ensure that checklists and guidelines for product design are applied; validate technology choices; ensure product manufacturability
• Process development: define process solutions and ensure that process standards are applied; follow-up prototypes build (when applicable); Identify available capacity; release tooling and equipment specifications
• Tooling and equipment procurement: support the purchasing organization during suppliers selections and negotiations; follow-up tooling and equipment at suppliers; manage tooling and equipment reception.
• Generic processes: Simultaneous Engineering and product innovation - define and maintain checklists and guidelines for product design; Prepare process inputs and participate to the M3 gate Review of the product innovation process. 
• Process improvement and innovation; develop and improve processes related to his/her field of expertise; develop cooperation with equipment suppliers, universities, etc…
• Standardization: define, maintain and improve process standards in his/her field of expertise (tooling, equipment), create and maintain related specifications, ensure that process standards are applied (plants and programs) 
• Best practices: Identify and validate best practices in his/her perimeter; Integrate best practices in process guidelines and/or standards; Promote and ensure deployment of best practices
• Capacity management: Maintain and update a database of tooling and equipment related to his/her field of expertise.
• Purchasing: Support the purchasing organization in developing and assisting tooling and equipment suppliers for all issues related to his/her field of expertise

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience: The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Education : National Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering or Tool maker trade.
• Knowledge of full assembly lines.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in an industrial environment (automotive preferred)
• Skilled problem solver, Strong Communication Skills. Proven Technical skills in process and product.
• Computer literate 

Behaviours: 

• Ability to handle pressure; deadline orientated
• Disciplined self starter; Analytical, systematic and logical thinker
• Good attendance is essential