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  • Posted: Feb 28, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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    AFGRI Equipment is your supplier of choice when looking at Agricultural equipment and services. AFGRI Equipment is the pre-eminent Agricultural, Golf, and Turf equipment retailer in Africa and Western Australia. AFGRI Equipment offers the worlds leading equipment brands and backs these brands with a business as good as the products we sell. We specialize in precision agriculture and utilize a myriad of technologies to better integrate your farm into your farm of the future.
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    Foreman - Thabazimbi

    Description

    To ensure that agricultural equipment is repaired and maintained. Assist technicians in their duties.

    Requirements

    REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION/TRAINING    

    • Grade 12
    • Qualified mechanisation technician
    • Valid driver’s license

    REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE            

    • 8 years experience as a qualified mechanisation technician of which 4 years John Deere experience

    KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS         

    • Repair and maintain agricultural equipment
    • General supervision
    • Risk Management
    • Customer service
    • Housekeeping

    TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/ COMPETENCIES          

    • Good customer services
    • Good planning and organising

    BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES 

    • Business acumen
    • Analytical
    • Willingness to work in hot areas as well as outside locations
    • Good time management
    • Energetic and self-motivated
    • Safety cautious
    • Focus on quality
    • Accountability
    • Ability to work alone as well as in a team
    • Good customer service and interpersonal behaviour

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    Workshop Manager - Piketberg

    Description

    The purpose of this role is to ensure that agricultural equipment is repaired and maintained, to assist and supervise Technicians in their duties.

    REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION/TRAINING    

    • Grade 12
    • Qualified Mechanisation Technician

    REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE            

    • 5 years experience as a qualified mechanisation technician of which 3 years must be John Deere experience

    KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS         

    • Supervise all workshop activities including scheduling and controlling work processing
    • Identify, investigate and resolve all workshop related problems
    • Maintain a safe work environment and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations 
    • Ensure protective equipment is used as prescribed
    • Build and maintain good customer relationships and ensure that customer queries and complaints are resolved within the prescribed turnaround time
    • Handle all warranty claims and ensure credits are received
    • Oversee scheduling and control working hours and ensure that the status of job cards is updated
    • Ensure control of tools and workshop equipment
    • Report on activities as required by management
    • Enforce and monitor budget control
    • Manage employee key performance areas, monitor performance standards, identify training and development requirements, and ensure fair disciplinary action to address deviations

    TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/ COMPETENCIES          

    • Good Customer Services
    • Lead the workshop team
    • Understanding of agriculture, agricultural technology and farmers
    • Valid driver's licence

    BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES 

    • Business and customer orientation
    • Analytical
    • Safety cautious
    • Problem analysis
    • Focus on quality
    • Accountability
    • Ability to work individually as well as in a team
    • Good customer service and interpersonal behaviour

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    Wholegoods Marketer - Equipment (Marble Hall)

    Description

    AFGRI Equipment Marble Hall is looking for a seasoned agricultural sales specialist to join the team in Middelburg to market John Deere equipment and various other leading equipment within in Afgri Equipment portfolio.

    REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION/TRAINING    

    • Grade 12
    • Relevant tertiary qualification in Business Administration or Sales or Marketing

    REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE            

    • 5 years business, sales and marketing experience with John Deere equipment. 
    • Solid experience in the marketing of agricultural equipment
    • Strong client service exposure.

    KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS         

    • Manage the marketing function
    • Procurement and stock control
    • Marketing of John Deere and other equipment
    • Administration
    • Reporting

    TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/ COMPETENCIES          

    • Valid drivers licence
    • Able to conclude good business transactions
    • Technical knowledge of John Deere equipment and other leading agricultural brands.
    • Understanding agriculture cycles
    • Good verbal expression/communication

    BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES 

    • Willingness to travel
    • Ability to work under extreme environmental conditions
    • Customer orientation
    • Negotiating
    • Networking
    • Listening
    • Excellent interpersonal skills

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    Data Centre Manager

    Description

    This role is primarily responsible for the maintenance, support, and deployment of all hosting solutions as well as the associated support thereof. Manage and maintain Active Directory. Assisting in maintaining all corporate systems including corporate email, collaboration, SQL servers, application servers, hosted file repositories and all cloud-based hosting environments. Maintaining a monitoring system to detect faults or resource outages for all systems, backups, and the retention thereof. Will be responsible for business continuity from cradle to grave.

    Requirements

    Required minimum education/training:

    • Relevant degree/diploma an advantage
    • Grade 12, relevant tertiary qualification will be an advantage (Cobit/ITIL)
    • ITIL V4.0
    • A+
    • N+

    Minimum work experience required

    • Minimum 8 year’s working experience in an IT environment with relevant IT Infrastructure and Datacentre management experience

    Key performance areas

    • Coordinate, oversee, execute and/or any operational changes without compromising system integrity across all role players
    • Provide operational inputs into hosted infrastructure
    • Day-to-day management and interaction with third-party suppliers
    • Plan, negotiate and assist with the implementation of optimal technology services, without compromising system integrity
    • Assess data centre infrastructure needs for future developments without compromising system integrity
    • Responsible for identifying continuous improvement opportunities
    • Provide input into IT strategies relating to the Data Centre environment
    • Identify business needs and streamline with IT business support
    • Ensure alignment to the horizontal IT strategic integration
    • Provide feedback on interactions with the business to align and prioritise IT operational aspects based on business strategy
    • Responsible for the day-to-day health and, management of the following services:
    • all corporate infrastructure systems
    • corporate email
    • collaboration, including MS Teams
    • server operating systems and compliance
    • hosted File repositories
    • hosted environments
    • plan, participate and report on adversary simulation (DR) tests
    • Ensure all servers are equipped with all required tools
    • Maintaining current hosting environments including, but not limited to on-premises, cloud (private and public)
    • Manages all requests with regard to data centre infrastructure services
    • Function as an advisory for technicians on complex issues
    • Ensure all related SOPs are completed and updated bi-annually

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    Specialist Clerk Sales: Irrigation (Retail)

    Description

    To ensure effective sales and marketing of the retail irrigation product & service range.

    REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION/TRAINING

    • Grade 12

    REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE

    • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in retail environment
    • Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience as a General Sales Clerk
    • Minimum 2 years irrigation experience

    KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

    • Ensure a well-managed sales and marketing of irrigation services function
    • Execute Sales and Marketing in an efficient and profitable manner
    • Ensure added value and improve access to services and products
    • Ensure that sales and margins are achieved according to targets and budget
    • Provide information about competitive prices, discounts and quality of products and suppliers to customers.
    • Ensure delivery of products and services offered to customers.
    • Ensure after-sales service to customers
    • Communicate market tendencies to relevant departments and stakeholders.
    • Build customer databases and maintain administrative records
    • Ensure business-to-business Growth
    • Identify opportunities outside of traditional Afgri business within Retail service and product offering.
    • Inform clients of warranties and return policies
    • Attend product knowledge training
    • Liaise with the irrigation design department and procurement departmente
    • Ensure the administration of sales is proficient and accurately maintained 
    • Ensure Policies and procedures are adhered to in the sales and marketing environment
    • Planning of stock levels based on historic information
    • Ordering of stock from supplier or procurement
    • Take receipt of stock and ensure correct counts
    • Receive stock from receiving department and ensure correct pricing
    • Conduct stock counts on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
    • Minimizing stock losses, damaged stock 
    • Ensuring that quotations are done timeously accurately
    • Follow up on outstanding quotations  with suppliers and customers
    • Stock displayed according to Merchandising standards
    • Ensuring that shelves are clean and neat
    • Ensure that Merchandising displays are relevant to seasonal needs
    • Displaying products to enhance add-on sales
    • Establish and maintain good relations with customers
    • Record and report specific customer needs
    • Handle customer queries and complaints efficiently

    TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/ COMPETENCIES

    • Customer Service Focus
    • How to analyze business opportunity
    • Planning and organizing
    • Innovative thinking
    • Decision Making

    BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

    • Problem solving
    • Negotiation skills
    • Marketing
    • Delegating
    • Coaching
    • Flexibility
    • Stress Management
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Bilingual
    • Analytical thinking

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    Raw Material Controller (x2)

    Description

    AFGRI Animal Feeds is seeking an individual who thrives on accountability and sets high-quality standards who will be responsible for the end-to-end process of raw materials on-site and who is passionate about precision in managing raw materials.

    REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION/TRAINING    

    • Grade 12  
    • A relevant tertiary qualification

    REQUIRED MINIMUM WORK EXPERIENCE            

    • Minimum 5 years work experience in a similar position and industry
    • Raw material stock control and stock management experience
    • Animal Feed Manufacturing will be an added advantage

    KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS         

    • Maintain FIFO
    • Ensure uninterrupted supply of raw materials to production
    • Managing stock lead days within set parameters
    • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders
    • Timeously resolve supplier complaints
    • Limit stock losses to a minimum and explain stock deviations
    • Ensure timeous and accurate reporting
    • Conduct effective and regular stock takes
    • Maintain internal controls and procedures and ensure compliance.
    • Ensure accurate and timeous planning and recording of stock and capturing of all stock intakes accurately (GRVs)
    • Ensure timeous reporting of stock claims
    • Build and maintain strong relationships with Production Manager
    • Adhere to all safety regulation policies, procedures and notices and ensures monthly health and safety reports are done
    • Obtain V-number and MSD (Safety Data Sheet) for raw materials before a request is sent to Master Data for loading.
    • Ensure that allocated work is clean and complete cleaning register

    TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/ COMPETENCIES        

    • Strong administration and organizational skills
    • Good communication and interpersonal skills
    • Excellent computer skills (MS Excel, MS Word, SAP and Outlook as a minimum)
    • High level of personal and professional integrity
    • Ability to multi-skill
    • Proficiency in English and one other official language
    • Numerical acumen and attention to detail
    • Ability to handle stress

    BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES 

    • Motivated and positive
    • Precise and accurate
    • Proactive and innovative

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