Vacancies at Weir Minerals

Business Need/Purpose of Role:

The successful candidate will need to be energetic and have a passion for sales. They should be technically sound and ability to promote and generate new business from existing customers as well as growing the market share by providing value adding solutions to products and processes for our customers.

Job Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Mechanical / Metallurgical Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Computer literate – Microsoft Office suite
• Valid driver’s licence

Minimum Experience:

• 3 years’ related technical sales experience in a minerals processing equipment / mining environment
• CRM program experience
• Technical report writing experience
• Technical solutions selling

Key Tasks:

Including but not limited to:

• Meet budget set for territory served
• Increase sales of full range of Weir Minerals products
• Service existing clients and develop new business
• Provide technical assistance and after sales service to clients
• Operate independently and provide technical selling solutions to customers
• Propose the various Weir Minerals products on various applications
• Be proactive in seeking growth in all products
• Submit quotes and tenders according to customer requests
• Expedite client orders
• Gather market intelligence about customers, competitors, markets to help develop marketing support necessary forecasting
• Effective usage of Salesforce
• Provide weekly and monthly updates / reports on input, sales and performance delivery
• Implement rationalisation and promote new technology for the territory
• Support product managers in developing the required footprint for the territory
• Adhere to all Safety Health Environment (SHE) and housekeeping requirements at the branch and customer sites at all times
• Adhere to Duty of Care Policy at all times

Minimum Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent business communication – verbal and written
• Strong presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Cold calling and sales hunting skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to manage difficult customers and respond promptly to customer needs
• Strong technical competence including reading and interpreting engineering drawings
• Problem solving ability
• Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness
• Safety conscious

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Business Need/Purpose of Role:

The successful candidate will assist the sales and service teams, ensuring that quality and high service standards are met at all times.

The role covers various administration tasks including general sales administration of order input and output, quotations, expediting, workshop loading and routing, allocation of service jobs, processing of all repair work, certain SHE, debtors and general office support duties.

Job Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Matric (Grade 12) certificate
• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent an advantage (business admin, sales/marketing/logistics)
• Computer literate – Microsoft Office suite, ERP software e.g. Infor LN

Minimum Experience:

• 3 years related experience in an engineering / manufacturing / mining environment

Key Tasks:

Including but not limited to:

• Liaise with customers with regards to their service and spares enquiries
• Prepare quotations on the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system as per the standard operating procedure
• Timeously submit quotations to customers for spares required
• Load customer orders on the ERP system as per the standard operating procedure (includes sales, service, projects, warranties)
• Acknowledge and manage the order book and work in progress (WIP) on a daily basis
• Generate documentation for delivery of goods to customers
• Plan and check goods being loaded for dispatch to customers
• Expediting of customer orders and back orders
• Creditor’s reconciliation, debtors’ collection including debtors scanning and filing of POD’s
• Create and submit supplier purchase orders on the ERP system and Mymarket (sub-contracting)
• Effectively work with all internal and external customers to ensure all customer queries, quotations and orders are efficiently processed and managed
• Resolve supplier and customer queries
• Daily receipting of stock from head office and suppliers including inventory reconciliation, including GIT, GDNI and DRP
• Responsible for stock control, monthly cycle counts and maintaining correct bin levels on a quarterly basis
• Assist with spares forecasting
• Control waybills and their registers
• Inter branch stock transfers and monitoring excess orders on the system
• Basic e-Curves navigation and look up of BOM’s
• Responsible for petty cash management and Concur transactions/expenses and claims
• Complete and submit timesheets for approval and payroll submission
• Provide real time feedback to sales and branch managers regarding status of customer queries and orders
• Provide a backup to sales and services administrative team to effectively distribute workload
• General office admin
• Apply LEAN principles
• Adhere to all Safety Health Environment (SHE) and housekeeping requirements at the branch
• Adhere to Duty of Care Policy at all times

Minimum Skills/Abilities:

• Good business communication at all levels
• Ability to identify and solve problems in a timely manner
• Ability to manage difficult customers and meet customer commitments
• Ability to plan and prioritise work activities
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness
• Ability to work under pressure
• Attention to detail

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Business Need/Purpose of Role:

Manage the entire maintenance team, all the planning, repairs, maintenance, improvements including all relevant maintenance SOP’s and procedures for HBF site.

Job Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications & Minimum Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering with five to eight years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Government Certificate of Competency (Factories).

Key Tasks

• Attain maximum utilization, production output and minimum downtime by managing mechanical, electrical breakdowns and maintenance
• Set up and maintain a planned maintenance system / programme to effectively reduce breakdowns and maximize efficiency
• Ensure uninterrupted supply of air, steam, gas and electrical service to the site
• Competent person responsible for machinery in term of the General Machine Regulations of the OHS Act
• Implement the required business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Optimize artisan utilization and improve customer satisfaction
• Effective employee management in line with company policies and procedures
• Effective management of maintenance contracts
• Assist with reducing the plant carbon footprint
• Manage capex and projects on the facility
• Effective management and control of departmental budget in line with company policies and procedures
• Develop standard work instructions to ensure all processes are consistent
• Design and develop equipment, jigs and fixtures to improve safety
• Implement and maintain productivity improvement plan
• Continuous improvement of the maintenance, engineering procedures, systems, energy and water usage
• Implement control systems to eliminate possible maintenance stock losses
• Adhere to Duty of Care Policy at all times
• Ensure Adherence of all SHE and housekeeping requirements

Minimum Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent problem solving skills
• Good leadership and interpersonal skills
• Managing people; able to delegate and promote teamwork
• Good communication and customers service skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Advanced MS Office required

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Business Need/Purpose of Role

The successful candidate will need to be energetic and have a passion for sales. They should be technically sound and ability to promote and generate new business from existing customers as well as growing the market share by providing value adding solutions to products and processes for our customers.

Job Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Mechanical / Metallurgical Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Computer literate – Microsoft Office suite
• Valid driver’s licence

Minimum Experience:

• 3 years’ related technical sales experience in a minerals processing equipment / mining environment
• CRM program experience
• Technical report writing experience
• Technical solutions selling

Key Tasks:

Including but not limited to:

• Meet budget set for territory served
• Increase sales of full range of Weir Minerals products
• Service existing clients and develop new business
• Provide technical assistance and after sales service to clients
• Operate independently and provide technical selling solutions to customers
• Propose the various Weir Minerals products on various applications
• Be proactive in seeking growth in all products
• Submit quotes and tenders according to customer requests
• Expedite client orders
• Gather market intelligence about customers, competitors, markets to help develop marketing support necessary forecasting
• Effective usage of Salesforce
• Provide weekly and monthly updates / reports on input, sales and performance delivery
• Implement rationalisation and promote new technology for the territory
• Support product managers in developing the required footprint for the territory
• Adhere to all Safety Health Environment (SHE) and housekeeping requirements at the branch and customer sites at all times
• Adhere to Duty of Care Policy at all times

Minimum Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent business communication – verbal and written
• Strong presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Cold calling and sales hunting skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to manage difficult customers and respond promptly to customer needs
• Strong technical competence including reading and interpreting engineering drawings
• Problem solving ability
• Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness
• Safety conscious