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AECI is a South African based explosive and speciality chemical company focused on providing products and services to a broad spectrum of customers in the mining, manufacturing, agricultural, food and beverage, and general industrial sectors. it has regional and international businesses in Africa,South-East Asia, the USA and Australia.
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Job Description
Purpose of the job
- A Quality Engineer in the Chemicals industry plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and safety of chemical products and processes.
- They are responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining quality management systems, and identifying risk and resolving quality issues.
- Develop and implement QMS in accordance with industry standards regulations (e.g., ISO 9001, cGMP).
- Define quality policies, procedures, and work instructions.
- Conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with the QMS.
- Continuously improve the QMS through process optimization and risk management
- Conduct inspections and tests on raw materials, in-process materials, finished products, and equipment to ensure they meet quality standards.
- Develop and implement sampling plans and test methods.
- Analyze test data and identify potential quality issues.
- Investigate and resolve deviations from specifications.
- Identify and investigate root causes of quality problems.
- Develop and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to address quality issues.
- Track and monitor the effectiveness of CAPAs.
- Prepare and maintain quality documentation, such as reports, procedures, and records.
- Generate quality reports and metrics to track performance and identify trends.
- Communicate quality information to stakeholders, including management, customers, and regulatory agencies.
- Collaborate with other departments, such as production, engineering, and sales, to ensure quality throughout the organization.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders on quality matters.
- Participate in cross-functional teams to improve processes and products.
- Stay up-to-date on industry best practices and regulatory requirements Identify opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction.
- Implement new technologies and methodologies to enhance quality and efficiencies.
- Participate in product development and design reviews.
- Provide technical support to production and other departments.
- Conduct training on quality-related topics.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable regulations and standards (e.g., FDA, EPA, OSHA).
- Maintain awareness of changes in regulations and update QMS accordingly.
- Prepare for and participate in regulatory audits.
Qualifications & Experience
- Grade 12.
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Industrial Engineering or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 of years’ experience in quality assurance in the chemical industry
- Quality Management Systems Development and Implementation
- Knowledge of the chemical industry and the quality management principles and practices (example ISO 9001).
Personal Attributes
- Quality Management Systems Development and Implementation
- Communication and Collaboration
- Document Reporting
- Quality Problem Resolution
- Inspection and Testing
- Continuous improvement
- Regulatory compliance
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Job Description
- The NPD Technologist will be responsible in executing the development process within given deadlines ensuring the product conforms to country specific regulations and according to the customer project brief.
Required outputs: functional
- Preparation of product development samples.
- Recipe development and costings according to customer brief received.
- Providing technical support to other departments: QA, Operations, Sales.
- Meticulous execution of development department procedures.
- Sourcing of new raw materials including supporting documentation.
- Supervise first production trials of new products
- Maintain neat & tidy NPD work environment (“Clean-as-you-go” principle).
- Maintain a safe NPD work environment (ZERO HARM).
- Performing both delegated and non-delegated departmental activities.
- Assisting the Senior Product developer
- Maintaining laboratory, maintain safe work environment.
- Product development according to NPD procedure
- Raw material investigation
- Recommend and assist with product related cost saving business
Qualifications & Experience
- BSc Food Science / B.Tech Food Technology
- Excellent organizational ability and time management skills
- Excellent self-management skills (able to show initiative)
- Excellent mathematical skills
- Good Communication skills (verbal and written)
- Good Analytical skills.
- Intermediate computer literacy (MS Word, Outlook & Excel)
- Work well under pressure
- Good inter-personal skills
- Ability to lead or drive projects
- 2 years industry experience
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Job Description
- Inventory Planning and Control: Develop and implement inventory management strategies to achieve business objectives.
- Stock Counts Management – Monitoring execution of Wall-to-wall and periodic cycle counts.
- Inventory Analysis: Analyze inventory data to identify trends, optimize inventory levels, and minimize waste.
- Inventory Management Systems: Configure SAP to meet business requirements and provide guidance on Inventory Management Best Practices.
- Inventory Management Systems: Manage and maintain inventory management systems, including ERP and inventory tracking software.
- Inventory Reporting: Create Dashboards, provide regular inventory reports to management, highlighting trends, issues, and opportunities.
- Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve inventory management processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
- Training: conduct SAP inventory workshops to ensure team members understand inventory principles, efficient inventory management and control
Required outputs: functional
- Data mining, analysis, modelling and to facilitate decision making.
- Scenario mapping.
- Use various reporting tools and methods to communicate business insights to key stakeholders.
- Maintain the integrity and operational efficiency of the net working capital control tower, proposing enhancements based on continuous data analysis.
- Extract inventory reports to monitor performance and free cash flow for the business.
- Provide necessary training to relevant stakeholders.
- Set targets and measure performance against target.
- Monitor performance against the inventory policy
- Use agile methods to monitor “AS-IS” processes and define “TO-BE’ process
- Standardise processes to ensure best practices are adapted.
- Conduct industry bench marking exercises to improve business processes.
- Set up and configure SAP system.
- Maintenance of Master Data for all materials in the system.
- Monitor data integrity in the SAP system.
- Provide necessary training.
- Aligning business processes to SAP processes.
- Define & set KPI’s for SAP housekeeping and assist with Exceptions monitoring
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree / Diploma in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research or equivalent
- 3 – 5 years’ experience within a continuous improvement role and inventory management.
- 3 - 5+ years’ experience of data modelling
- Business Analysis (i.e. both data, process)
- SAP ERP experience within a manufacturing or engineering background.
- Knowledge and application of Process Improvement methodologies.
- Data modelling, analysis and reporting
- Creating dashboards /Scorecards to monitor and report on business performance.
- Stakeholders Management
- Inventory management knowledge
- SAP ECC or S4 HANA
- Power BI and advanced Excel
- Project Management (Agile methodology)
- Six sigma DMAIC
- Data analysis and modelling
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Job Description
Strategic Managmeent
- Support the business in its strategic objectives, including M&A, to ensure that all tax implications are thoroughly evaluated and optimised, facilitating seamless transactions and enhancing the overall value and sustainability of AECI Group's business initiatives.
- Lead, direct and manage the Group Tax department, in order to foster a high-performing team that effectively navigates complex tax regulations, drives compliance, and implements innovative tax strategies that support the Group's financial objectives and mitigate risks.
- Oversee, direct and indirect tax matters for the Group across all regions to ensure compliance with local and international tax laws, optimise tax positions, and minimise liabilities, thereby supporting the Group's operational efficiency and strategic growth objectives.
- Lead the development and enhancement of the tax process to drive efficiency and effectiveness of tax compliance and reporting.
- Develop tax strategies to ensure the Group optimises its effective tax rate while ensuring full compliance, with a particular focus on transfer pricing and international tax refor
Tax Reporting
- Manage tax input for Group Reporting and meet deadlines, in order to ensure accurate and timely financial disclosures and facilitate informed decision-making by stakeholders.
- Ensure adequate review of Income tax, provisional returns and tax computations for the Group to identify and rectify any discrepancies, ensure compliance with tax regulations and minimise potential liabilities.
- Manage the tax provision, deferred tax and tax related financial reporting to ensure accurate financial statements, facilitate compliance with accounting standards, and provide stakeholders with reliable insights into the Group's tax position and obligations.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure all filings are carried out accurately and timeously, in order to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, minimise the risk of penalties, and ensure transparency and accountability in the Group’s tax practices.
Tax Audits
- Ensure adequate preparation and response for any tax audits as well as manages all tax related matters for the Group’s statutory annual audit, in order to effectively address inquiries, mitigate potential risks, and ensure compliance with tax regulations.
- Drive appropriate and timeous communication with external parties and authorities and ensure all required documentation is provided to facilitate a smooth audit process
Tax Risk
- Identify areas of tax risk and mitigations for both existing / planned operations and new initiatives to proactively address potential compliance issues, safeguard the Group's financial position, and support informed decision-making that aligns with the Group's strategic objectives and risk appetite.
- Highlight tax concerns and propose feasible solutions to ensure that potential issues are addressed proactively, enabling the Group to maintain compliance, optimise tax positions, and support strategic initiatives while minimising financial and reputational risks.
Stakeholder Management
- Maintain relationships with tax authorities and third-party advisors to ensure excellent planning, consulting and expertise for the Group.
- Build and maintain relationships with tax authorities, external auditors and other stakeholders to ensure compliance with tax regulations, facilitate smooth audits, and foster a collaborative environment that supports AECI’s strategic objectives.
Tax Best Practice
- Build a culture of excellence for the Tax Department through implementing initiatives that enhance the team's performance, drive continuous improvement in tax processes, and ensure the delivery of high-quality tax insights that align with AECI’s overall business goals.
- Provide ad-hoc advice, analysis and written opinions on tax impacts of any significant projects or transactions to assist in decision making.
People Management
- Build a strong and cohesive team by recruiting top talent and creating an inclusive work environment to enhance team collaboration, diversity and employee engagement across team members.
- Promote a culture that supports high performance through performance management and employee engagement, in order to drive accountability, enhance individual and team productivity, and align employee contributions with the overall goals of the organisation.
Qualifications & Experience
- CA(SA) or equivalent
- Relevant postgraduate qualification in Tax.
- A higher diploma in International Tax will be advantageous
- Minimum 10-12 years of Tax experience
- Previous experience dealing with the following is essential:
- Experience in cross-border transactions and identifying the tax implications thereof
- Experience managing listed Group tax processes, both compliance and strategy processes
- Experience working in or with cross-functional teams across departments and functions.
- Experience in working in Engineering or Chemicals field (advantageous)
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Tax legislation and other regulatory frameworks
- Financial Policies, Procedures, and Processes
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk management principles
- Legislative and regulatory landscape
- Tax compliance software and systems
- Applicable legislation on a global scale
- Macroeconomic and econometric information, metrics, indices, driver-based models
- Tax Methodologies and Practices
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Implement tax strategies
- Industry dynamics and multiple industries
- Leading and Supervising
- Adhereing to Principles and Values
- Entrpreneurial and Commercial Thinking
- Persuading and Influencing
- Presenting and Communicating Information
- Formulating Strategies and Consepts
- Deciding and Initiating Action
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
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Job Description
- The Infrastructure and Network Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of the organization's infrastructure and network environments, which are delivered through a network of outsourced service providers.
- This includes ensuring the delivery, performance, observability, and cost-effectiveness of critical infrastructure and network services across multiple countries, time zones, and regulatory jurisdictions.
- This strategic leadership role plays a vital part in supporting hybrid and multi-cloud provisioning, ensuring robust WAN, SD-WAN, and NaaS services, and aligning infrastructure capabilities with business operations and growth.
- Oversee the design, provisioning, and lifecycle management of hybrid (on-prem/cloud) infrastructure and platforms.
- Ensure infrastructure is right-sized, secure, and scalable to meet business demand.
- Own the performance and availability of the organization’s global WAN, SD-WAN, and NaaS environments.
- Drive continuous optimization of network topologies and architectures across regions. Proactively follow up with suppliers and finance teams to resolve payment issues.
- Plan capacity upgrades and failover strategies to achieve minimal downtime.
- Continuously monitor link utilization, packet loss and latency; fine-tune configurations to eliminate bottlenecks.
- Build, negotiate, and manage SLAs with outsourced providers.
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for third-party infrastructure and network services.
- Establish and enforce performance metrics, KPIs, and service quality standards.
- Implement observability frameworks for proactive detection, monitoring, and reporting across infrastructure and networks.
- Ensure high availability and fault tolerance of infrastructure supporting business operations.
- Define and oversee robust asset and configuration management practices.
- Ensure accurate inventory tracking and configuration control for infrastructure assets.
- Monitor and control infrastructure and network spend.
- Drive efficiency and cost transparency through FinOps-aligned practices.
- Ensure infrastructure and network compliance with local and international regulatory requirements (ISO 27001, NIST).
- Lead risk identification and mitigation efforts across jurisdictions.
- Maintain network diagrams, configuration baselines and runbooks.
- Define VLANs, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), QoS policies and IP addressing schemes.
- Implement firewalls (stateful, NGFW), intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) and zero-trust segmentation.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure and network management, with at least 5 years in a leadership or multi-country role.
- Proven experience managing hybrid infrastructure and multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google).
- Deep knowledge of server infrastructure, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and storage systems.
- Strong expertise in WAN, SD-WAN, and wireless and LAN models.
- Strong grasp of Routing/switching, VPN/IPSec/MPLS, and DNS/DHCP/NTP fundamentals
- Experience managing outsourced IT service providers and enforcing SLAs.
- Solid background in observability tools (e.g., Datadog, ThousandEyes, Dynatrace, etc.) and asset/configuration management (e.g., CMDB, ITAM).
- Skilled in implementing and interpreting telemetry, alerts, and dashboards.
- Demonstrated ability to manage across global time zones and jurisdictions.
- Familiarity with ITIL, ISO 27001, and network/infrastructure compliance standards.
- Strategic thinking and ability to align technology with business objectives.
- Strong vendor management and contract negotiation skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- High level of analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Resilience, accountability, and decision-making under pressure.
- Ability to lead technical teams and influence non-technical stakeholders.
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Job Description
- Purpose of the job : To provide strategic leadership in managing and protecting DetNet’s IP Portfolio.
- To oversee and enhance the contracts portfolio, ensuring all agreements are aligned with the company’s goals, to develop and implement comprehensive legal strategies across all areas of the business; and to ensure regulatory compliance by monitoring legal developments and guiding the company accordingly.
- Guide IP development in technical projects to ensure the company's intellectual property aligns with strategic goals and is well-protected throughout its lifecycle.
- Manage the company's IP portfolio, from identification to the end of the lifecycle, ensuring that all IP assets are properly registered, maintained, and enforced.
- Develop and implement the DetNet IP strategy, including the use of marketing instruments such as trademarks to protect and promote the company's brand.
- Formulate and execute efficient offence and defence legal strategies to safeguard the company's interests.
- Responsible for the effective management of legal department.
- Develop, implement, and review all company policies to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and laws.
- Monitor the ever-changing legal landscape, proactively implementing measures to ensure the company remains compliant with new regulations.
- Conduct regular audits of the entire contracts portfolio to ensure compliance with legal and company standards.
- Draft, review, and approve contracts to ensure they are legally sound and align with the company’s strategic goals.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent
- At least 8 years of experience in Patent and Design Law, and general Intellectual Property law, contract law, and regulatory compliance
- Engineering qualification (Electronics/Electrical) would be advantageous
- Knowledge of litigation processes
- Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
- Good interpersonal and leadership skills
- Thoroughness and attention to detail
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
- Effective time management and ability to prioritize tasks
- Resilience under pressure and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Superior communication skills, both verbally and in writing
- A strong commercial acumen and understanding of the business environment
- Proficiency in using legal and business tools such as Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams) and legal research databases
Personal attributes
- Organising skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Results-oriented
- Good communication skills
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills
- Analytical thinking
- Innovation
- Ability to take initiative
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