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Purpose of the role:

• To provide proactive management of the marketing and communications activities in accordance with the Sandvik business model.
• The role will help oversee the development and execution of Divisional and Sales area marketing strategies, develop business and communication strategies for different channels and stakeholders both internally and externally
• In addition, this role will be the Executive Assistant to the Executive Team (Directors/Senior Management) providing administrative support and office admin support which includes the travel system platform

The job responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and track marketing initiatives
• Collaborate with other internal teams (eg. product & sales) to develop and monitor the marketing initiatives for the Africa territories, including an establish event/marketing plan inline with the budget
• Monitoring & reporting of marketing spend in accordance with annual budget
• Liasing with the other African country marketing teams for SRP marketing initiatives
• Working with the appointed external marketing service provider to develop and agree the annual budget and external marketing publications, liasing with the VP and then the internal content providers.
• Conduct market research and analyse trends to identify new marketing initiatives
• Support with the development of marketing materials and liasing with the global teams (marketing & product) to ensure the sales area have the relevant marketing materials
• Organizing & coordinating the marketing events/shows/trade shows
• Working with global marketing team to promote Africa content & stories via the SRP LinkedIn page and other social media
• Driving NPS initiatives utilizing the CRM accounts and coordinating efforts to increase NPS response rate and improvements in NPS rates feedback
• Other CRM initiatives

COMMUNICATIONS & INTERNAL

• Responsible for drafting and distributing internal communications to the relevant stakeholders via the SRP Africa communication channels
• Liasing with managers to agree content to ensure organization is well informed on changes and other important organizational information and establishment and execution of annual communications calendar & internal events.
• Set up and administrative support for internal communication webinars
• Developing and preparing the material for the internal communications webinars etc liasing with sales area key stakeholders
• Suggest and develop internal communication plans & communication models to ensure improved and effective internal communications to employees
• Ensuring branding of office locations & employees is in line with Sandvik brand guidelines

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT/OFFICE ADMIN

• Providing proactive & organized support to the Managing Directors and the senior executive team
• Assisting with managing schedules, coordinating meetings/events & communication with internal and external stakeholders and a variety of other administrative tasks (eg expense claims) for the executive team
• Planning & coordinating management team events including off-site strategy events
• Coordinating & preparing materials for meetings
• Supporting with board meetings or other key meeting preparations
• Booking travel & coordinating travel arrangements for the executive team
• Travel system – key user – providing adhoc support to travelers on using the travel system etc

Office admin:

• ensuring boardrooms and common areas/coffee areas have a professional & well-maintained appearance and function and are neat & tidy
• support for office-based events and meetings
• ensuring office supplies adequately distributed and managed – liasing with procurement as is necessary

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Marketing or Communication or Business Administration would be preferable
• However other relevant qualifications, eg Diploma, Certificate in Marketing, Communications will also be considered combined with experience & other assessed capabilities
• Minimum 2 years corporate working experience in a similar role in marketing & communications ​

Other Requirements & Competencies

• Proactive,  organized & takes initiative
• Advanced communication & presentation skills
• Excellent written communication skills
• Excellent time management skills and deadline driven
• Computer Literacy – MS Office – highly proficiently
• Handling information with sensitivity & confidential information
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask & prioritize tasks effectively
• Project management skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently
   

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Purpose of the role:

• Promote and build the Sandvik brand and Lifecycle offering in the Northern Cape region, ensuring customer value added service by maximizing and extending existing plant utilization and reducing life cycle running costs.
• Ensuring service contracts are executed in accordance with the scope of the contracts.
• Responsible for business development and opportunity identification in the Northern Cape Region, aligned to the Lifecycle service strategy.
• The role will also be responsible for all administration function in running of the Northern Cape Branch office inherent with the position

The job responsibilities:

Responsible for demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of Sandvik services and the value it can add to Sandvik and the customer.

• Responsible to develop new business opportunity for Sandvik through the Lifecycle strategy focus. This includes the development of new business at existing customers, as well as securing new business with customers and / or sites with whom we are not doing business with
• Living the Sandvik Core Values

Business Development and Execution

• Responsible to achieve a sales budget by visiting customers and make profitable sales.
• Promote Sandvik its equipment and service offering with present and potential customers in the area.
• Manage and execute service and maintenance as well as spare parts contracts with team input.
• Ensure that Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and Spare Parts Agreements (SPA’s) are implemented and adhered to
• Responsible to monitor and update SLA performance and report back to the Company on any issues and opportunities, outline and implement required actions to improve
• With the support of the Capital Sales Department, the incumbent will be responsible for Capital Sales (new equipment) proposals including equipment sizing, costing, proposal writing and tender submissions.

Responsible to secure After Sales Income by identifying and securing:

• Customer RFQ’s for required on-site spares and fabricated parts
• Customer RFQ’s for equipment to be refurbished or repaired
• New or amended service and maintenance agreements
• New or amended spare parts agreements
• that the customer always has enough on-site emergency stock
• Communicate & liaise effectively at all levels within the organisation

Responsible to liaise with Sandvik (SRP) Head office and update and inform the customer on:

• The status and information relating to customer quotes for spares/parts and refurbishments/repairs - liaise with Sandvik’s Lifecycle/Aftermarket department
• The status of customer orders and delivery dates– liaise with Sandvik Supply Chain department
• Technical equipment performance - liaise with Sandvik’s Lifecycle and Technical department
• Ensure that processes between Sandvik Head Office, the Northern Cape Branch and the customer are streamlined to ensure ease of doing business.

Customer Focus

• Responsible to provide on-going customer reassurance:
• Ensure that regular on-site training and advise to site personnel on correct operating procedures are given
• Ensure that customers are supplied with Sandvik equipment and service information
• Ensure that regular customer re-assurance is provided and ensure customers are fully satisfied with Company’s equipment, service and capability
• Ensure that customers are provided with immediate on-site problem solving and solutions
• Responsible to keep regular contact and build mutual trust and respect with customers, understand and attend to customer needs
• Responsible to communicate needs to Sandvik Head Office departments as applicable.
• Responsible to pro-actively anticipate customer needs

Operational Effectiveness

• Responsible for the management of the Northern Cape Branch stock, as well as assets and equipment used by branch personnel.
• Responsible to ensure that branch costs are maintained within budget, as may be amended from time to time.
• Responsible to monitor and review departmental progress against deadline targets.
• Responsible for technical excellence (right first time, high productivity, high efficiency, high effectiveness, minimise waste/maximise value add)

Staff

• Responsible for own and staff compliance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's).
• Responsible for own and staff compliance with company policies and levels of authority, as may be amended from time to time.
• Establish goals and objectives for self and team and implement accordingly to help support/improve job performance.
• Responsible to determine employee requirements in co-ordination with the departmental managers to ensure maximum output and productivity.
• Monitor and implement wage system for hourly paid staff in the branch,
• Monitor, review and address employee underperformance, maintaining appropriate records in accordance with company procedures.
• Ensure that appropriate systems and processes are in place to measure and manage staff performance and to coach and develop a high-performance workforce.
• Address any staff discipline or grievance issue, maintaining appropriate records in accordance with company procedures.
• Responsible that recruitment and employment in the department are carried out in accordance to company procedure and in compliance with current employment law.

Health and Safety

• Must sign and adhere to the required legal liabilities required and associated with the role in terms of both the Occupational Health and Safety Act, as well as the Mine Health and Safety Act. In addition, the incumbent will ensure that the staff reporting to the Northern Cape Branch, assign themselves to the required Health and Safety roles as required by their job function and adhere to all Health and Safety legislation, as well as the Sandvik Health and Safety Policy and the Health and Safety Policies of the customers on whose sites they work.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• Degree in Metallurgical/ Mechanical Engineering or technical related field
• Previous experience and exposure in mining industry and related industries in a managerial role, with multiple direct reports (+-5years management experience).  MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE IS MANDATORY

MINIMUM REQUIREMENT

•  Preference will be given to an individual with good crushing and/or vibrating screen/feeder and related machinery experience and process plant and site exposure.

Other Requirements & Competencies

• Sound understanding of bulk material handling and comminution and separation business
• Strong know-how and technical understanding of vibrating equipment
• Good understanding of mining site plants and process engineering
• Able to conduct technical site and equipment inspections and assessments
• Ability to read engineering drawings
• Sound judgement and problem-solving ability
• Listening and logic interpretation
• Strong customer orientation
• Advanced communication skills
• Must be flexible and self-reliant, self-starter
• Excellent time management
• Sound commercial reasoning
• Strong understanding and compliance with Health and Safety in the workplace
• Ability to function independently and with responsibility without direct supervision
• The ability to make sound decisions related to identified problems without assistance
• Ability to summarize and write professional technical customer reports
• Follow-through ability to complete tasks
• Computer Literacy – MS Office
   

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The Role

• Provides technical support in mechanical maintenance. Maintains and improves machines and equipment to increase or maintain a high level of reliability, availability, cost efficiency and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Mechanical maintenance operations.
• Preventive maintenance, perform corrective actions, supports planning and preparation, monitors outcome, documentation (outcome, root cause, time, improvements).
• Work in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Achievement of maintenance targets.
• Follow quality and cleanliness standards.
• Communication of operational status and any deviations.
• Safety and housekeeping (5S) requirements.
• Continuous improvements and development on a personal and operational level.

Profile Required

• Grade 12 / N3 Technical Qualification / Equivalent Qualification
• Section 13 or 26D Trade Certificate, accompanied with proof of apprenticeship.
• Basic Computer literacy
• English proficiency
• Relevant mining experience (5 years)
• Relevant mechanised mining experience (5 years)
• Underground/surface mining environment
• Maintenance of earthmoving equipment in mining/construction environment

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The Role

• To manage maintenance and assist the Performance Contract Manager with cost effectiveness and operational profit through optimal performing subordinates, customer relations and safety, health & environmental effectiveness.

Key Performance Areas

• Prioritize, prepare, set resources and schedule work orders.
• Request resources and lead resources from central maintenance/external contractors. Coordinate maintenance tasks according to current instructions and routines.
• Documents and monitors outcome (root cause, time, improvements) and initiates further improvements.
• Creates and adapts preventive maintenance plans.
• Develops routines and tools to streamline the process of maintenance.
• Contributes with technical knowledge in projects. Works in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Achievement of maintenance targets.
• Communication of operational status and any deviations.
• Safety and housekeeping (5S) requirements.
• Continuous improvements and development on a personal and operational level.

Profile Required

• Grade 12 (Matric) or equivalent qualification
• Relevant Trade Certificate (Please provide POE or apprenticeship contract)
• Relevant trade history
• Computer literacy
• Maintenance experience (5 years)
• Supervisory experience (3 years)
• English proficiency
• Experience in inventory control
• Trackless mining experience (advantageous)
   

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Purpose of the role:

• To discover, develop and evaluate new product ideas, enhancements to existing products or strategic product extensions, and translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products.

The job responsibilities:

• Appraises new product ideas to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share.
• Designs, validates and brings new products to market.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
• Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
• Work closely with Manufacturing management to make sure design and manufacturing details follow best practices. This includes making parts easy to assemble, ensuring welding is accessible, checking the availability of steel sections, considering plate bending, and organizing the bill of materials.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
• Respond to more complex technical questions regarding the organization’s product, system or service.
• Pre-sales activities include analysing customer’s technical needs and suggesting solutions.
• Assist in developing and presenting training material when needed.
• Required to travel and meet with customers when needed. This includes taking measurements on-site.
• Ensure that all work conform to the required in-house modelling and detailing standards.
• Ensure sufficient checking of drawings and BOM’s to eliminate NCR’s.
• Participate in generating new in-house technical standards and training material.
• Develop and maintain engineering calculations to assist in product design where needed.
• Assist in performing engineering first principle calculations when needed.
• Manage and assist in performing engineering structural integrity and dynamic calculations and conduct test and measurement exercises, by means of using advanced technology.
• Check the designers’ design intent at the initial phase of projects to identify potential weaknesses in the designs.
• ETO and R&D resources can be shared across teams on a case-by-case basis to support both regional and global functions based on workload and agreement between departmental managers.
• Remote work limited, primarily office based.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• MEng. University Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 2-6 years of advanced 3D CAD modelling and drafting experience in sheet metal fabrication industries including welding specifications.
• Good Test & Measurement experience with field or lab testing experience.
• Preferred experience in previous R&D role.
• Proficient in Siemens NX & Teamcenter software packages. Solid Edge and other CAD software are an added benefit.
• Proficient in Python or similar programming language.
• Multibody Dynamics simulation experience added benefit.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Other Requirements & Competencies

• Adaptability
• Building Customer Loyalty
• Communication
• Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Learning
• Contribution to Team Success
• Initiating Action
• Managing Work
• Advanced Calculations
• Comparison
• Work Standards

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The Role

• The program will provide technical training and experience our products, you will be guided by our experienced technicians, managers, and Engineers.
• You will get exposure to the application of our products and our business.
• Mining Engineers: Will have an opportunity to also attain their Blasting Ticket (Surface or UG) through our program as it collaborates with role players in the mining industry.
• Mechanical/Mechatronic/Electrical: These will exit our program with a maintenance trade qualification, this will further enable a young engineer to be a seasoned technician and technologist as they will know the expectation from artisan to engineer.
• The experience You’ll get covers and is far over the scope of P1/P2 requirements and hence you will be able to register P1 /P2.
• This program acts as a feeder to our internship program, as our internship program has more of business exposure than practical exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Observe the conditions of the relevant employment agreement or award.
• Attend and perform work as directed.
• Behave in a courteous and professional manner.
• Obey all lawful instructions.
• Work toward achieving the competencies of the training plan.
• Undertake training and assessment as required under the training plan.
• Keep the training record and produce this when required.

Profile Required

• Diploma/ Degree in Mechanical/Mechatronics/Mining /Electrical and Electronics /Industrial Engineering ​
• Passion for Maintenance Engineering and getting operational
• Must be prepared to get hands dirty
• Critical and Analytical Thinking