Recent Opportunities at MAN Automotive (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd

Description

• Conduct work studies and line balancing activities.
• Conduct MNPS trainings with all staff.
• Design and maintain the plant layout.
• Apply the Kaizen methods in the plant.
• Give feedback to management on the activities within the MNPS.
• Map new & update existing processes.
• Ensure the latest processes are always available for auditing purposes.
• Improve assembly processes regarding efficiency and quality.
• Support operations with resource planning for volume changes.
• Lead the productivity improvement initiatives.
• Pro-actively adjust the human resources to support the organization as a whole.
• Save costs through efficient programs that seek to achieve optimal productivity.
• Develop strong networks with German colleagues within the MNPS network.
• Participate in workshops, get improvement ideas & stay up to the latest standards.
• Actively seek to continuously improve the productivity within the plan to achieve the set targets.
• Implement new MNPS methods as per agreed roll-out plan with all related training material.
• Perform time studies and make recommendations - layout changes or headcount reduction.
• Co-ordinate 5S audits and ensure improvements in 5S KPIs.
• Perform weekly/monthly reporting on 5S standards within the plant.
• Continuously look for opportunities for reducing waste in the various departments.
• Engage the relevant stakeholders in the different departments, solicit ideas and execute.
• Focus on operational efficiency and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Industrial engineering degree

Skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products
• Energetic and change / improvement focused
• Flexible, active and forward thinking A focus on quality and output performance
• Pro-active, reliable, be self-motivated
• Work accurately under pressure and be able to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail Work independently though being a team player

Experience:

• Experience in the motor or vehicle assembly industry - 3 years

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• Analyse data using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.
• Identify and assess trends, patterns and abnormalities in large data sets.
• Prepare daily/weekly/monthly performance reports.
• Derive recommendations for performance improvement.
• Analyse spare parts supply chain processes.
• Identify areas of efficiency improvements.
• Lead warehouse improvement projects.
• Develop concepts for improvements, including business cases and resource planning.
• Manage packing consumption and ordering process.
• Analyse MHE utilisation.
• Conduct process takt time studies.
• Execute process/productivity improvement projects.
• Identify potential operational risks and develop countermeasures.
• Analyse processes within the distribution centre and suggest efficiency improvements.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade: 12 Matric Certificate.
• Industrial engineering degree.
• Lean manufacturing or Black Belt six sigma.

Skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products.
• Work well under pressure and maintain good customer relations.
• Analytical and strategic skills to identify problems thereafter solve them.
• Budget management.

Experience:

• Experience in commercial vehicle/metal equipment/agri- & construction/heavy engineering industry - 3 years.

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Description

• Build relations with government & municipal transport units to achieve MAN preferred supplier status.
• Achieve Truck, Bus and CSM fleet sales targets.
• Achieve agreed gross profit targets as per the Business Unit
• Manage the complete fleet sales process with Business Unit Sales Management
• Manage relationships with named Municipal/ fleet customer.
• Coordinate named Municipal/ Fleet customer liaison meetings.
• Monitor all tender advertisements and bulletins to maximize MAN participation.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Diploma in Business Administration.

Skills:

• Sales operations administration.
• Must have tender experience.
• Time Management.
• Skills Resilience.
• Work independently though being a team player.
• Customer focused with a result driven approach.
• Excellent negotiating skills.
• Analysis skills.
• Good communication (oral and written) & interpersonal relations skills.
• Able to make decisions.

Experience:

Experience in sales - 6 years.

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Description

• Ensure the quality of the sales teams in the MAN Centers.
• Initiate point of sale design within the framework of MAN SE instructions and guidelines.
• Provide market specific & sector related data to MAN SE.
• Define requirements for technical support for add-ons/ conversions for projects/ tenders.
• Responsible for all product, sales and driver training courses.
• Determine all discount framework for MAN Centres.
• Continuously identify improvement potential & track improvement initiatives in sales.
• Carry out volume management/ balancing between the MAN Centers in the sales region.
• Perform benchmarking of MAN Centres and identify improvement potential.
• Participate in the UPL process by developing targets for the MAN Centers & track performance.
• Responsible for the Bus range product planning, strategy and sales engineering.
• Responsible for vehicle homologation, safety and legal compliance.
• Ensure market related pricing of products & services for optimized profitability in bus ranges.
• Participate in all relevant planning cycle & give accurate forecasting for sales monthly & yearly.
• Align and interact with the production plant on production planning.
• Align and interact with the Order Management team to ensure optimised working capital at all times.
• Build up and extend the management of bodybuilders in the region.
• Evaluate the sales network quality and initiate improvement measures.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree.

Skills:

• Analytical and strategic skills to identify problems thereafter solve them.
• Able to create confidence and to manage a cooperative partnership.
• High level communication, interpersonal relations and negotiation skills.
• Willingness to travel extensively.
• Possess solution orientated thinking and be customer orientated.
• Budget management.
• Target Driven.
• Market knowledge.
• Able to form successful working relationships quickly at all levels.
• Excellent negotiating skills
• Customer focused (Internal and External).
• Must possess management and leadership skills with emphasis on leading and motivating staff.

Experience:

• Sales experience within the heavy commercial vehicles industry - 10 years.
• Previous management experience desired - 10 years.