Jobs Available at Plennegy Group

RESPONSIBILTIES:

Delivering customer support services by:

• Preparing freight quotations (standard road freight cross border and international air freight)
• Interacting with forwarding agents on a daily basis on quotations, delivery status updates and reconciliation of cross border documents and POD’s
• Booking collections, arranging forwarding agent collections and deliveries as well as track and trace
• Communicating with customers by ensuring cross border invoices, SADC’s, Carnets, Bureau Veritas certificates are handed to collection staff and that documentation is correct
• Arranging COC’s with Bureau Veritas
• Investigating and resolving queries / problems through waybill and discrepancy reports
• Administering discrepancy manifests in terms of collating all discrepancy reports to master records
• Advising customers and communicating misroutes to branches
• Checking scanning details, updating master record information, recording bay schedules in master report, reviewing endorsed waybills via claims and administering the claims procedure
• Monitoring third party agent POD’s by printing daily outstanding POD’s and verifying the status, marking dispatch trip sheets, resolving queries and faxing copies of the waybills to customers
• Furnishing exporters with proof of exports
• Furnishing importers with proof of imports
• Reconciling of GRV’s for cross border retail deliveries
• Communicating with cross border branches on border clearances, deliveries and documentation
• Sending daily tracking reports
• Full function and support for international Sea and Air Freight

REQUIREMENTS:

Education and Training

• Grade 12 minimum (Matric)
• Studying towards a certificate in customer care / call centre management (beneficial)

Experience

• 2 years general clerical experience / working experience within a call centre environment
• Basic understanding of Freightware or similar freight management system
• Excellent geographical location knowledge would be beneficial
• Ability to work with both mass and volumetric weightings

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring that the yard area is kept neat, tidy and maintained
• General maintenance including: building maintenance, roller doors, lighting, flooring, painting & welding
• Assisting with general housekeeping & gardening

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS:

• Grade 12 (Matric) minimum
• Working times: Monday – Friday (7h00 – 17h00)
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to communicate in English
• General knowledge on vehicles
• Forklift Driver License preferable
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Ability to use hand tools & Power tools
• Reliable
• High degree of integrity
• Presentable at all times
• Ability to work overtime as and when required
• Own transport to and from work

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and execute a crop breeding programme aligned with business and market objectives.
• Develop, evaluate, and maintain germplasm and breeding populations.
• Select and develop inbred lines, varieties, and hybrid combinations with commercial potential.
• Collaborate with pathology, biotechnology, production, and marketing teams to achieve breeding objectives.
• Plan, coordinate, and monitor breeding activities, ensuring quality standards and timelines are met.
• Design, establish, and evaluate field trials both on-station and at external trial sites.
• Analyse, interpret, and present breeding and trial data to support decision-making.
• Maintain accurate breeding records, databases, and programme documentation.
• Ensure availability of seed, germplasm, and trial materials required for breeding activities.
• Coordinate trial planting, harvesting, data collection, and reporting processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve breeding methods, processes, and resource utilization.
• Monitor industry trends, market requirements, and emerging technologies relevant to crop improvement.
• Participate in research collaborations, industry events, field days, and professional development activities.
• Provide technical support and contribute to crop-related problem-solving initiatives.
• Work closely with farm managers, supervisors, and research teams to ensure successful programme execution.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

• B.Sc (Plant Breeding/Genetics) Essential
• 1-3 years experience
• Should be willing to work outside the majority of the time.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

Customer Service:

• Provide excellent, professional customer service at all times, ensuring a positive shopping experience.
• Ensure that sales staff provide excellent, professional customer service at all times.

Maintenance and Operations:

• Oversee the maintenance of all sales areas of the nursery, ensuring they are clean and tidy at all times.
• Maintenance of property buildings and all associated nursery sales areas and verge.
• Inventory control and operational management and service of small machinery and small equipment and tools.
• Monitor stock levels daily and report shortages/requirements to the Line Manager.
• Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
• Ensure that all company procedures are executed correctly by sales staff.

Supervision and Coordination:

• Delegate tasks to the Assistant Nursery Supervisor or Sales Assistants as per management instructions.
• Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
• Identify difficult and complicated sales scenarios and intervene swiftly.
• Coordinate with buyers and suppliers for seasonal training every Friday (60 minutes) for all branch staff on chemicals, fertilizers, tools, plants, and related items on sale.
• Managing the contractors on site.
• Organisation of monthly staff attendance register in conjunction with line managers.
• Procurement of quotations for CAPEX and implementation thereof.
• Management of CAPEX to specifications within budget

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

Education:

• National Senior Certificate (NQF level 4) (essential)

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in maintenance or operational roles
• Experience in a nursery or garden centre environment (advantageous)
• Horticulture knowledge is advantageous