Jobs at Plennegy Group

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prospecting for new business by opportunity identification, area and business review, making telephonic contact and cold calling.
• Qualifying potential clients in terms of requirements (volumes, distribution areas, current providers, cargo types etc.) then submitting these to the Sales Manager for consideration in the form of a sales filter.
• Developing and updating knowledge of your own and competitors service offerings.
• Gathering market intelligence / information in terms of freight service opportunities, competitor activities and reports, accordingly.
• Determining customers’ needs and demonstrate Triton’s services to them to suite their requirements, adding value to their business.
• Formally present the business proposal.
• Negotiating prices and credit terms.
• Working on continuously improving marketing strategies.
• Achieving agreed sales targets.
• Planning, organising, following up and communicating progress to client effectively.
• Input of work to optimise the operations department capability.
• Updating leads to PENTAGON.
• Effective management of PENTAGON system & processes.
• Handling client enquires, queries and problems and facilitating resolutions.
• Conducting monthly and weekly service call visitations.
• Identifying and capitalizing on service / sale extension opportunities.
• Advising rate increases and processing procedural changes.
• Building client relationships at all levels.
• Monitoring Client activity.
• Ensuring that all information from sales is detailed and accurate.
• Generating accurate quotes for all work requirements.
• Preparing / submitting weekly new business reports.
• Monitoring credit applications submitted for approval and expediting.
• Preparing recommended proposals for Sales Manager’s approval.
• Ensuring that all necessary measures are in place to guarantee Customer satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12 minimum (Matric).
• 3 - 4 Years sales experience.Experience with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint software applications.
• Understanding of Freightware or similar management systems.
• Selling process and techniques.
• Basic principles of marketing.
• Basic understanding of freight processes.
• Computer operations.
• New business development (prospecting/cold calling).
• Account management.
• Advanced selling skills.
• Commercial arithmetic calculations.
• Writing progress reports / proposals.
• Conduct formal presentations.
• Own reliable vehicle.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coaching and Sport Support

• Assist with coaching and development of junior sports teams.
• Support training sessions, matches, and sporting activities.
• Promote sportsmanship, teamwork, discipline, and participation among scholars.
• Provide assistance to coaches and the Director of Sport as required.

Event and Fixture Management

• Attend and assist at all assigned sporting fixtures, tournaments, festivals, and events.
• Support the organisation, setup, and operation of sports events.
• Assist with scholar supervision during home and away fixtures.
• Ensure the safe and professional conduct of scholars at all times.

Administration

• Assist with fixture schedules, team lists, attendance registers, results, and sports communications.
• Help maintain sports equipment and facilities.
• Provide administrative support to the Sports Department as required.

School Involvement

• Be an active and visible member of the Wembley College community.
• Participate in school functions, open days, camps, and co-curricular activities when required.
• Uphold and promote the values, ethos, and reputation of Wembley College.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant qualification or current studies in Sport Science, Education, Human Movement Science, Coaching, or a related field.
• Passion for sport and working with young people.
• Strong organisational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including afternoons, evenings, and weekends.
• Coaching experience, first aid certification, and a valid driver's licence will be advantageous.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and manage the Academic Support Department across the College and coordinate our in-house therapy team.
• Provide direct academic support, remedial therapy and targeted interventions for scholars requiring additional educational support from ages 5 to 18.
• Conduct assessments, identify barriers to learning and develop appropriate accommodation and support plans.
• Coordinate intervention strategies and support programmes for scholars.
• Monitor scholar progress and evaluate the effectiveness of support interventions.
• Identify and assist with High School concession applications.
• Build staff capacity through mentoring, coaching and support in inclusive education practices.
• Liaise with families, educational psychologists, therapists and other specialists to ensure effective scholar support.
• Maintain accurate records, reports and learner support documentation.
• Promote scholar confidence, resilience and independent learning.
• Contribute to the broader academic and pastoral life of the College.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• An appropriate four-year teaching qualification and/or recognised postgraduate qualification in Learning Support, Inclusive Education, Educational Psychology or a related field.
• A minimum of five years' relevant experience in academic support, learning support or educational leadership within a mainstream school environment.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying barriers to learning and implementing effective intervention and support strategies.
• Sound knowledge of standardised assessment, literacy, numeracy and cognitive data analysis.
• Experience working collaboratively with teachers, parents, educational psychologists, therapists and other professionals.
• Strong communication, organisational, leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365, Teams and educational information management systems.
• Current SACE registration.
• South African citizenship or permanent residency.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

New business development:

• Build and maintain a structured, measurable and qualified pipeline of new opportunities.
• Prospect actively for opportunities across warehousing, 3PL, distribution and broader supply chain environments.
• Generate leads through cold calling, networking, referrals, digital outreach, tender identification, industry connections and site visits.

Selling Triton SCS service offering:

• Differentiate Triton from ordinary warehousing providers through value-added, improvement-led solution selling.

Customer needs analysis and opportunity qualification:

• Qualify opportunities based on strategic fit, feasibility, profitability and revenue potential.
• Conduct discovery discussions, operational walk-throughs and requirement gathering sessions.

Internal solution coordination:

• Ensure customer requirements, assumptions, exclusions and commercial context are clearly documented.
• Work collaboratively with internal specialists during proposal development and customer presentations.
• Brief internal IE, operations, finance and solution stakeholders accurately on the prospect requirement.

Proposals, commercials and closing:

• Support the development of proposals, tenders, presentations and pricing schedules.
• Manage negotiations within approved authority levels and protect margin quality.
• Close new business and ensure clean handover to the relevant internal teams.

Relationship management and sales discipline:

• Build trust-based relationships with prospects, customers and influencers.
• Represent Triton professionally in all meetings, presentations and written communication.
• Provide regular updates on activity, forecast, conversion, pipeline movement and risk.
• Support post-sale engagement where appropriate and identify upsell or cross-sell opportunities.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Matric / Grade 12 and a relevant tertiary qualification in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Operations, Marketing, Commerce or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years' external sales, business development or solution-selling experience.
• Practical understanding of warehouse operations and WMS/WCS-linked environments.
• Experience with proposals, quotations, presentations, negotiations and customer engagement.
• Valid drivers license and own reliable transportation.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

24/7 Stand-by:

• Consistent communication with all parents.

Administration:

• Keeping track of all documentation that involves the Boarding Establishment administrations.
• Keeping policy documents updated (sending changes to be made through to the Head of Boarding).
• Letters to the head of the school, parents, staff, and boarders.
• Maintenance and quotes.
• Keeping parents’ and boarders’ contact details updated.
• Incident reports.
• Minutes of staff meetings.
• Creating study timetables (inclusive of a new daily routine during exams) for exams.

Leading and managing the boarders:

• Keeping track of where every boarder is (sports, and cultural activities including practices; visits to friends; Boarders going home for the weekends).
• Managing the daily routine.
• Keep boarders’ learning and well-being at the centre of all decision-making.
• Keeping the boarding establishment, a safe and comfortable environment for each boarder.
• Managing the voting system for prefects and monitors.
• Managing the prefects and monitors. Assigning them their duties.
• Ensure boarders follow the boarding code of conduct (maintaining discipline).
• Following disciplinary procedures when a boarder commits an offence.
• Solving problems and creating incident reports when something happens.
• Organizing deep inspections once a term, to ensure there are no banned substances or dangerous objects in possession of the boarders.
• Managing safe storage of each boarder’s medication and keeping track of their consumption of medication daily.
• Ensure that boarders maintain a healthy diet.
• Liaising with the boarders when they need transport to and from the airport.
• Arranging doctor’s appointments for ill boarders.

Leading and managing staff:

• Creating staff duty rosters.
• Running staff meetings once a week.
• Checking that staff maintain the proper daily routine.
• Implement, manage, and evaluate effective systems and processes to facilitate the efficient and proper running of the Boarding Establishment.
• Solving problems that come up among the staff.

Catering:

• Meetings with the caterers once a week.

Maintenance:

• Routinely doing maintenance checks of the BE buildings.

Communication:

• Develop positive relationships with parents and communicate effectively with them regarding the good academic and social progress of their child in line with School policy.
• Excellent communication with the school and admissions.
• Attending meetings with the Head andof the school to keep them up to date on everything in the Boarding Establishment.
• Resource and budget management.
• Ordering supplies/equipment in accordance with the school budgeting policies and procedures.
• Ensuring that an up-to-date record inventory is kept of House resources.

Safety and security:

• Managing the alarm system.
• Liaising with Mzigi security when the alarm is tripped or when there is a security issue.
• Deactivate and reactivate for boarders coming back after 10pm.

Closed weekends:

• Planning and managing activities for each closed weekend depending on the budget (once per term).

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Matric.
• Certification in child related courses.
• Clear Criminal Record.
• Good with children of all ages.
• 1 - 2 years of previous boarding establishment experience (Preferrable).
• Drivers License.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

Receiving and registration of submitted samples

• Compare information on sample with information on register or other documentation.
• Receive sample on register and EMS
• Prepare relevant documents as per required test/s.
• Place samples in relevant containers as per required test/s.

Document Preparation for OIC’s

• Complete OIC application and return to applicant.
• Register OIC seed lots on register and complete relevant documentation.
• Receive OIC-samples on register and place in relevant containers as per required test/s.

Calculation and Reporting of Results

• Calculate all germination results as per ISTA and apply tolerances.
• Enter all results on register.

Issuing of Laboratory Reports and OIC’s

• Prepare laboratory reports on request.
• Inform customer when laboratory report is ready for collection.
• Confirm correct rounding (Seed calc).
• Prepare preliminary OIC for confirmation purposes.
• Inform customer when OIC’s are ready for collection.

Record Keeping

• Maintaining all germination, purity, seed count and moisture records.
• Maintaining laboratory register.
• Maintaining equipment register and files.

Storeroom maintenance

• Maintaining and monitoring of incoming and outgoing stock.

General

• Respond to queries from Head Office, Packing, Production, Export, Marketing, Quality, Assurance Manager.
• Perform any reasonable task allocated by superiors to ensure the effective functioning of the seed-testing laboratory.
• Act responsibly and professionally at all times, fostering goodwill and a positive image of the Company.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12.
• 3+ years experience in admin.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Loading and off-loading goods from vehicle at depot.
• Off-loading goods from vehicle at client’s premises.
• Stacking of goods from vehicle into designated area.
• Ensuring that the goods are loaded correctly and secure on the vehicle at all times.
• General housekeeping – as and when required.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12 (Matric) minimum.
• Working Times: Monday – Friday (07h00 – 17h00).
• A valid unendorsed code 10 driver’s license and PDP or a valid passport.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to read, write and verbally communicate in English.
• Ability to work overtime as and when required due to client’s needs and requirements of the company.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Ability to work unsociable hours.
• Excellent listening skills.
• Reliable & presentable at all times.
• A high degree of integrity required.
• Own transport to and from work.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collect seed from the seed store and arrange as indicated on the planting lists as prepared by production/breeders. Correctly numbering of seed as indicated on the planting lists. This applies to all production, breeding and screening programmes responsible for; grow out evaluations, disease screening trials and trials at different locations.
• Correct filling of trays with the required growing medium.
• Supervise correct labeling of trays.
• Supervise proper sowing of seeds.
• Ensure optimal germination conditions.
• Responsible for watering and feeding of the seedlings.
• Responsible for scouting and reporting insect infestations and disease symptoms on the seedlings; reports it promptly to breeder.
• This entails measuring out land space; preparation of land/beds with irrigation, building of tunnels/onion cages; the planting and recording of specific seed or seedlings at a specific time in rows specified by the Farm Manager/Breeder. 
• It is the Supervisor’s responsibility to assist with the planting to ensure that it is correct and properly documented.  
• Monitoring and controlling of weeds during the plant growth cycle.
• Assist with fertilization and irrigation.
• Supervise trellising and maintaining of plants.
• Scouting for insect infestations during the plant growth cycle as well as monitoring and reporting plant health to the Farm Manager.
• Derouging of off-type plants.
• Execution of hand pollinations. This is a procedure that is very critical in that it is the basis of the breeding programme. All pollinations have to be properly executed, and since this is a biologically dependent process, co-ordination of resources is of utmost importance to accomplish this. The Supervisor is responsible for all selfings and to assist with the hybridization between lines.
• This entails collecting data from a specific row at a specified time and recording it. Data collected is mainly related to counts and mass. Vast numbers are recorded under pressure to daily and seasonal deadlines.
• Different market segments need to be harvested according to different specifications. It is crucial to harvest according to normal farming practices to calculate marketable yield. Quantitative data is collected every day. Fruit needs to be arranged daily to allow qualitative evaluation by the breeders and Marketing.
• The Supervisor is responsible to collect yield data, including weight and fruit number.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

Qualification:

• Grade 12 National Senior Certificate (essential).
• Tertiary Qualification (preferential).

Experience:

• 3 years’ experience as a research/farm supervisor (preferred).
• Experience working and managing people.
• Extensive experience in working on a farm.
• Willing to work with bees.

Knowledge:

• Extensive vegetable knowledge (preferred).

Other:

• Driver License Code 8.
• Able to speak Afrikaans and English.
• Willing to work over weekends.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Servicing and repairing of heavy duty vehicles.
• Replacing of parts.
• Attending to fault finding.
• Attending to the replacements of engines, gearboxes, brakes, clutch.
• Inspecting and checking of vehicles.
• Attending to mechanical and electric breakdowns.
• Maintaining and repairing of hydraulic faults.
• Knowledge of trailers essential.
• Knowledge of air system.
• Knowledge of vehicle diagnostic.
• Attending and repairing of all commercial vehicles.
• Attending breakdowns on road sites.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12 minimum (Matric).
• Certified Diesel Mechanic – Trade Certificate.
• Minimum of 5 years working experience.
• Experience working on Volvo and Scania trucks would be an advantage.
• Unendorsed driver’s license.
• Valid PDP.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work standby.
• Ability to work unsupervised majority of the time.
• Ability to communicate both verbally and written on all levels – both internally and externally.
• Ability to work as a team player.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Good time management – meeting specific deadlines.
• Prepared to work outside normal working hours – as and when required.
• Attention to detail at all times – accuracy.
• Excellent listening skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Reliable.
• Presentable and of a professional manner at all times.
• Own reliable transport to and from work.