Various Job Opportunities at UD Truck

Job Overview

UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry.  The successful candidate will be responsible for the workshop activities which include managing/ maintaining workshop personnel and equipment, manufacturing of prototype components, modifying of development trucks and components and vehicle evaluation and preparation for e.g launch events, customer demo vehicle activities.

The development workshop's key function is to support both UD Technology as well as UD Product Management and Sales organization in the above-mentioned activities. This is a blue collar position located in the UD Assembly plant in Rosslyn, Pretoria and report to the head of Technology in South Africa. 

Responsibilities and Duties
Operational   

• To ensure pool/test vehicles is maintained(inline with OEM standards) and components/ workshop equipment is maintained in sound working order
• To prepare vehicles for homologation
• Prepare vehicles for tests and evaluations and conduct testing/evaluations as per works request
• Assist the technology engineer with vehicle/ component assessments and evaluations
• To ensure that all equipment is calibrated and updated to ensure accurate results for vehicle testing
• To create performance criteria for UDSA internal testing by comparing previous test results/market requirements
• To advise on the procedure (test methods) for internal testing
• To compile the summary of compliance per variant for submission to SABS
• To ensure that all UDSA test reports (SABS/Homologation/In-house reports) are saved in the appropriate shared drive, are categorized and are readily available
• Perform modifications/fitments in line with installation instructions/works requests
• To ensure that all legal requirements, such as the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS Act) are adhered to within the development workshop.
• To advise on equipment/tools/maintenance/upgrades required to ensure proficient and efficient workshop operation
• To continuously provide feedback and submit supportive documentation to the manager wrt departmental strategy and budget preparation

Client/Staff Focus   

• Customer focus:
• To provide a service to the technology, product management and sales departments
• Report, in writing, of non-conformances of vehicles, components and equipment to the manager technology department
• Report safety incidences and accidents accurately and promptly to the SHE representative and the manager
• To manage/ performance manage subordinates in the development workshop as well as promote skills development
• Provide clear instructions to the workshop assistant
• Issue the workshop assistant with the necessary protective clothing
• Provide necessary training on tools, equipment and procedures to the workshop assistant
• Carry out tasks requested through works requests
• To maintain and promote relationships with external stakeholders such as the SABS/NRCS/SAVTA/GEROTEK/UP

Minimum Qualifications and Experience 

• Mechanical Diploma (Essential)
• Experience in vehicle testing
• Experience in commercial vehicle service/modification/repairs
• Code 14 license and Professional Drivers Permit (PDP) (Essential)

Job Related Skills and  Knowledge:

• Technical and Mechanical Expertise
• Understanding of Relevant Legislation (e.g OHS, SABS etc)
• Knowledge of welding, lathes and drilling machines
• Use of equipment and software for vehicle testing and homologation e.g datalogger/transducers/Techtool
• Analytical / good logical thinking

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Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting and Planning

• Support UD international sales department to monitor profitability on trucks and services sales.
• Actively involved in the estimate activities and standard cost calculations.
• Constantly developing and maintaining a strong relationship with the UD BA different departments
• Always implement UD trucks policies and procedures in a compliant environment.
• Actively involved in deployment and monitoring of Internal control process

Cost control

• Set, control, and maintain the cost saving target and actuals generated by all functions in IS South Africa
• Variance analysis between standard cost and actual cost.
• Cost Report (OPEX / Actual & Estimate)

Finance

• Support with monthly closing activities and related analytics to ensure smooth delivery of reported financial results.
• Analyse completeness and accuracy of Sales/Aftermarket related commercial provisions and support the documentation of these provisions in accordance with standards (Financial Policies and Procedures).
• Support the Snr Business Controller in preparing ad-hoc analysis and monthly financial reporting.
• Responsible to control the overall selling expenses
• Close collaboration with Finance, Group Financial Reporting and Internal Control

Minimum Qualifications and Experience 

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Management Accounting or Financial Accounting
• Completed articles (Advantageous)
• Minimum of 3 years working experience in related field
• Working experience in a finance related role, Sales, and Marketing within the Automotive industry (Preferred)
• Knowledge of IFRS, with basic consolidation accounting
• As a business controller, who has driven improvements by collaborating with the business side.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Competences 

• Strong business acumen and commercial knowledge
• Business oriented and a holistic view
• Skilled in SAP, and Essbase.
• VIPS Master level skills
• Team player with strong logic and analytical skills 
• Business oriented and a holistic view
• High level of personal integrity and credibility 

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Job Overview

• UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry. This position is responsible for improvement activities through implementation of UDPS (UD Production Systems) guidelines, undertaking new projects and re-engineering of the logistics facilities and flows.
• This position is earmarked to Unemployed Youth on a 12 month contract basis. The person applying must comply with the criteria and be registered on the Yes4Youth platform

Responsibilities and Duties

•  Responsible for UDPS implementations for Logistics 
•  Responsible for finalizing all logistics process flows 
•  Represent logistics in product and process related projects both internal and external.
•  Responsible to identify areas of improvement in all processes and areas and to implement projects/improvement activities to eliminate / reduce waste
•  Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.
•  Design, develop, and implement efficient logistics systems that meet the specific needs of the company
•  Collaborate with the manufacturing engineers to ensure that an adequate supply of materials is constantly available
•  Responsible to carry out workshops for improvement activities and promote Kaizens
•  Conduct process standardization using time study or other techniques
•  Responsible to design layout of the Logistics areas within the plant, warehouse and outside
•  Responsible to co-ordinate with internal/external entities to understand requirement on logistics
•  Responsible for reporting all packing issues arising from packing platforms and co-ordinate the packaging improvement activities
•  Maintain ISO 9001 & 14001 standards

Minimum qualifications and experience 

•  Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial Engineering/Mechatronics or studying towards    attainment of one.
•  Relevant experience in Automotive industry. 

Key Competencies

•  Responsible and self-driven
•  Ability to handle pressure
•  Good and Clear communicator
•  Pro-active in approach 
•  Open positive attitude, goal oriented, flexible and be able to work on his/her own.
•  Ability to operate IT/Software used within the organisation. 
•  Good cross functional co-ordinating skills
•  Reporting skills.  
•  Presentation skills. 
•  IT Knowledge: use of MS office (Excel, MS-word, Powerpoint)
•  Knowledge and understanding of the organisations systems, policies and procedures. 
•  Knowledge and awareness of any new developments within operations. 

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Job Overview
UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry.  As legal assistant, you will be providing support to the Legal and Compliance Counsel in a variety of matters, including but not limited to commercial drafting, legal research, labour matters and litigation. This position will offer a candidate the opportunity to gain valuable experience prior to commencing their articles, thereby setting them apart from other candidates.

This position is earmarked to Unemployed Youth on a 12 month contract basis. The person applying must comply with the criteria and be registered on the Yes4Youth platform

Responsibilities and Duties 

•  Supporting in commercial litigation matters by preparing briefs to external counsel, liaising with attorneys, attending consultations and court proceedings;
•  Supporting in labour and disciplinary matters by preparing charge sheets, compiling evidence bundles, preparing arguments and liaising with external attorneys;
•  Conducting legal research and drafting of opinions;
•  Preparing draft agreements; and
•  Filing and maintaining contract files, tracking elements of contracts in databases and spreadsheets, copying files providing general administrative support in relation to ongoing litigation and company secretarial support.

Minimum qualifications

•  Completed / near completed LL.B degree;
•  Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks; and
•  Possess a high degree of accuracy and careful attention to detail.
•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English;

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Job Overview
UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry.  This position will be responsible for the Monthly sales provision accounting, inventory reconciliation and accounts payable processing.

This position is earmarked to Unemployed Youth on a 12 month contract basis. The person applying must comply with the criteria and be registered on the Yes4Youth platform

Responsibilities and Duties

Monthly Sales Provision Accounting

•  Identify provision raised through sales, check and control correct reporting to income statement.
•  Identify provisions raised to balance sheet.
•  Investigate expenses raised against sales provision to ensure correctness and validity.
•  Prepare monthly provision schedules.
•  Reconcile provision schedules to SAP general ledger, investigate and correct invalid entries.
•  Assistance with month-end reporting and period end closing activities.

Monthly Inventory reconciliations

•  Balance subsystems to General Ledger
•  Process corrective entries
•  Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
•  Weekly reporting on stock on hand

Monthly Accounts Payable processing

•  Capture supplier invoices and match to goods receive notes
•  Process monthly detailed upload sheet
•  Reconcile subsystems to reporting systems
•  Follow up on long overdue items
•  Follow up on debit balance vendor accounts

Minimum qualifications

• Completed B Com Accounting degree or equivalent

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Job Overview
UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry. This IT Support job carries out user support, identifies defects and proposes changes and improvement activities for an assigned application or group of applications. This job assists users when defects are found by resolving the defects or providing temporary workarounds to keep the application operational when needed. 

This position is earmarked to Unemployed Youth on a 12 month contract basis. The person applying must comply with the criteria and be registered on the Yes4Youth platform

Responsibilities and Duties

• Responsibilities at Professional Development 
•  Support users by explaining system capabilities, handling questions and solving incidents 
•  Identify actual and potential software problems and provide analysis to the maintenance team according to Incident Management principles
•  Respect commitments according to the support part of the Assignment Agreements
•  Acquire basic knowledge of the business processes supported by the application in the area of assignment.
•  Follow recommended Ways of Working with Incident & Knowledge Management systems for reporting and tracking
•  Attend relevant Group IT communities and forums 
•  Command of English – as per QDB requirement specified in the matrix
• Additional Responsibilities at Professional Development 
•  Propose changes and improvement activities that make the application more efficient and/or reduce operation or maintenance cost
•  Be able to identify problems using application root cause analysis and investigation, understand integration framework for associated applications as needed to solve a problem 
•  Participate in the planning of application maintenance and enhancement activities
•  Acquire sufficient knowledge of business processes in the area of assignment
•  Analyze user problems in areas of responsibility and support business users with efficient usage of the systems
•  Follow recommended Ways of Working with Incident, Problem & Knowledge Management systems and share Best Practices within teams , write articles in support knowledge base to improve efficiency
•  Understanding of Devops principles and Lean Way of Working
•  Participate actively & suggest ideas in relevant Group IT communities and forums 
•  Identify scope of automation in repetitive tasks
•  Command of English – as per QDB requirement specified in the matrix

Additional Responsibilities at Professional Development 

•  Participate in project phases including: testing, deployment planning & preparing for the support phase, roll-out, etc. along with project teams
•  Acquire sufficient knowledge of business  processes in the multiple areas of assignment across solutions 
•  Analyze user problems spread across multiple systems and resolve incidents in liaison with developers/functional consultants as needed
•  Good understanding of Integrations of associated applications – demonstrate ability to analyze issues generated from Integrated and associated applications 
•  Suggest optimized Ways of Working with Incident & Knowledge Management systems to improve efficiency in operations & processes
•  Technically lead and supervise other Application Support Professionals within their area of responsibility , review knowledge base articles
•  Possess good understanding of DevOps principles and mobilizes the teams to work in a DevOps setup as applicable
•  Active contribution in relevant Group IT communities and bodies with respect to process improvements & best practice sharing
•  Identify scope of automation in repetitive tasks and plan efficiency improvement in system operations through usage of advanced technologies like RPA, Chatbot etc
•  Command of English – as per QDB requirement specified in the matrix

Minimum qualifications

• Proven Qualification in IT (Diploma &/ Degree)
• Relevant Technical, Business and Soft Skills Training 
• Command of English – (as per QDB skill G030)

Understanding of Devops principles and Lean Way of Working

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Job Overview

• UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry. The main purpose of the job is to oversee the incoming stock from Central Warehouse and outgoing stock to the Dealers. This function compliments the entire interface between the Parts Distribution Centre (PDC) and BA/Dealer/Customer on urgently required components.

Responsibilities and Duties
Customer Service

•  Interface with and Respond to all Dealer queries.
•  Coordinating with the relevant function in order to resolve queries.
•  Updating of weekly back order report
•  Manage dealer Argus cases ensuring sufficient response time.
•  First point of contact with the dealers via relevant support mailboxes.
•  To follow-up with Warehouse on all orders, collections etc.
•  Follow delivery issues i.e. Nil Picks, Dealer Discrepancies, Transport delays etc.).
•  To ensure and manage a good Customer relations.
•  To ensure continuity of daily operations when acting at a back-up in the UD Trucks Customer Service Centre.
•  Provide effective support, calculates duties, tariffs, price conversions, weight, and volume of merchandise exported and imported, to and from foreign destinations.
•  Contribute to continuous improvement activities.

Local Procurement

•  Determine if parts quantities are sufficient for needs, order more when required based on the purchase proposal.
•  Liaise with suppliers in order to schedule / expedite deliveries and resolve shortages.
•  Follow up on outstanding orders and update expected time of arrivals
•  Reviewing daily orders (by going through shortages) to ensure proper stock levels are maintained
•  Reviewing special orders (VOR’s) to ensure they are ordered and delivered in a timely manner
•  Inputting data related to POs and invoices - Support finance and warehouse in terms of supplier queries with regards to incorrect deliveries and/ or prices invoiced

Minimum qualifications and experience

• Grade 12 and Diploma or Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics
• 1-2 years in the commercial vehicle industry

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Job Overview

• UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry.  The person will support wrt admin, logistics and general activities in the Competence Development and Retail Development Departments.

Responsibilities and Duties 

•  Manage flight, transfers and accommodation for training delegates;
•  Prepare Attendance Registers
•  Prepare Notice Board/Lecture Room
•  Print indemnity, name tags, material, certificates etc.
•  Arrange catering,
•  Order stationary and dry rations,
•  Compile monthly training reports,
•  Support with Training Management System (Navigator),
•  Support with UD Championship and Gemba competitions,
•  Data capturing of dealer KPI’s, QR etc.,
•  Compile customer contact detail reports for CSI measurement,

Minimum qualifications

•  Qualification in Human Resource / Training / Office Administration;
•  No experience required;
•  Language: Ability to speak, read and write in English;
•  Skills: Interpersonal, Communication, Teamwork & Collaboration, Customer Service,
•  Attention to Detail, Computer Literacy, Administrative.

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Job Overview

• UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry.  The main purpose of the job is to deliver an effective and efficient administrative support function to the Customer Adaptation (CA) department Operations Pretoria, in order to contribute towards the efficiency and effectiveness of the department.

Responsibilities and Duties

•  To deliver an effective and efficient admin support service to UDTO CA Pretoria (e.g. capturing of data, processing of invoices, filing and filing systems, labelling, ad-hoc tasks).
•  To raise IP orders via SAP Ariba to get authorization and GRN the receipt.
•  To record AP orders in the relevant systems (MS Excel and SysPro), place orders with suppliers and GRN receipts.
•  To update daily reports for various forums.
•  To assist with the organizing and cleaning of electronic data.
•  To support with HR related activities

Minimum qualifications and experience 

•  Grade 12 or equivalent.
•  Formal qualification in administration or equivalent.
•  Syspro System (Advantageous).
•  MS Office (MS Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point).

Job Related Skills

•  Communication.
•  Able to work without supervision.
•  Planning.
•  Organizing.
•  Administration skills.
•  Able to work neatly and accurately.
•  Good time management.