Career Opportunities at AECI Limited

Job Description

• Manage product ranges within the traded portfolio
• Liaise with Suppliers both internationally and locally on all product related matters.
• Source and grow product offering for customers
• Negotiate contracts, terms and pricing with suppliers
• Determine selling prices on portfolios product range
• Manager stock levels effectively and procure in accordance with forecast and working capital requirements
• Must be prepared to travel
• Provide regular summaries and analyses of product and market trends, stock movement, profit trends, threats and opportunities

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage product ranges within the traded portfolio
• Liaise with Suppliers both internationally and locally on all product related matters.
• Source and grow product offering for customers
• Negotiate contracts, terms and pricing with suppliers
• Determine selling prices on portfolios product range
• Manager stock levels effectively and procure in accordance with forecast and working capital requirements
• Must be prepared to travel
• Provide regular summaries and analyses of product and market trends, stock movement, profit trends, threats and opportunities

Qualifications & Experience

Matric or Equivalent

• Tertiary Qualification of a chemical Nature will be preferred
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years’ experience in Management and sales
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years’ technical experience in the chemicals industry
• Must have experience in managing foreign suppliers and principles

Competencies

• Critical thinking
• Decision making
• Leadership, teamwork and collaboration
• Planning and organising
• Interpersonal and communication skills

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Job Description

• Maintain existing customer base and relationships
• Create action plans and drive increased value at allocated customers.
• Responsible for execution of the sales strategy and growth projects
• Consistently look for opportunities to grow portfolio
• Develop new business and customers by promoting product range
• Monthly and annual reporting e.g. forecast and budgets
• Achieve sales targets and forecasts
• Track competitor activity and market movements
• Price negotiations and communication
• Interact between customers, production and purchasing to ensure that orders go out timeously
• Must be prepared to travel

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintain existing customer base and relationships
• Create action plans and drive increased value at allocated customers.
• Responsible for execution of the sales strategy and growth projects
• Consistently look for opportunities to grow portfolio
• Develop new business and customers by promoting product range
• Monthly and annual reporting e.g. forecast and budgets
• Achieve sales targets and forecasts
• Track competitor activity and market movements
• Price negotiations and communication
• Interact between customers, production and purchasing to ensure that orders go out timeously
• Must be prepared to travel

Qualifications & Experience

• Matric / Grade 12, preferably with Mathematics and Science
• A degree or diploma in a Commercial or Chemical related field
• Experience in the supply of specialty chemicals and/or commodities would be an advantage
• Must have a minimum of 3 years’ sales experience in sales
• Must have a valid driver’s license
• Must be computer literate in MS office and be competent in PowerPoint

Competencies

• Customer centric
• Good negotiation skills
• Relationship building
• Sales driven
• Problem solving
• Commercially astute

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Job Description

• Perform scheduled and routine maintenance on all plant machinery, services and equipment.
• Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement proactive plant maintenance and plant improvement corrective actions.
• Attend to breakdowns as and when required to minimise downtime
• Maintaining all legal files and systems to required standards.
• Minimise plant breakdown and downtimes by identifying root causes of equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to optimise plant availability.
• Provide appropriate and adequate feedback and input to the Reliability Team Manager with respect to plant condition, spares and repairs carried out.
• Assists and identify requirements for Critical spares list on Plant and Equipment.
• Assist in the improvement and implementation of maintenance schedules and special work instructions in designated areas.
• Maintain housekeeping standards in the designated areas.
• The ability to operate the automated and relevant process machinery to produce products for, production purposes as and when required.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform scheduled and routine maintenance on all plant machinery, services and equipment.
• Perform engineering inspections, identify problem areas and implement proactive plant maintenance and plant improvement corrective actions.
• Attend to breakdowns as and when required to minimise downtime
• Maintaining all legal files and systems to required standards.
• Minimise plant breakdown and downtimes by identifying root causes of equipment failures and implementing corrective actions to optimise plant availability.
• Provide appropriate and adequate feedback and input to the Reliability Team Manager with respect to plant condition, spares and repairs carried out.
• Assists and identify requirements for Critical spares list on Plant and Equipment.
• Assist in the improvement and implementation of maintenance schedules and special work instructions in designated areas.
• Maintain housekeeping standards in the designated areas.
• The ability to operate the automated and relevant process machinery to produce products for, production purposes as and when required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Artisan (Electrician, Instrument or Millwright) with a recognised trade test
• Minimum 2 years’ experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of Proximity sensors, VSD drivers, Control valves and Control loops.
• Good understanding of Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic systems.
• Ability to work a continuous shift pattern to support plant requirements if needed
• A good understanding and knowledge of safety standards, quality management and the production processes in a manufacturing environment
• Standby duty and after-hours maintenance as and when required
• Computer literacy.
• Own transport
• Own Tools
• Incumbent should be residing within a 30 km radius of the Modderfontein Factory site and be able to respond to call outs within 40 minutes.

Competencies

• Good communication skills
• Assertiveness
• Ability to function both independently as well as in a team matrix structure
• Critical information seeking
• Conceptual thinking
• Results orientation
• Analytical thinking
• Interpersonal awareness

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Job Description

• Comply with Safety, Health and Environment standards: - Works according to SHE rules and regulations and Operating Instruction and within all operating procedures and quality plans
• Plant specific procedures and rules: - Knowledge of start-up & shut down processes
• Recognize and understand hazardous conditions in the plants with regards to Operating Standards
• Competency in working with hazardous chemical substances – Material Safety Data Sheet (PETN, Paraffin, PETN Destroying Agent, Calcium Stearate, Guar Gum, Pine gel, Red Glo)
• Receive and prepare waste at PE 10, Clean and shutdown plant procedure at PE10
• Equipment Maintenance: - Adherence to clearance and inspection procedures
• Cleaning of machines as per procedure
• Minor maintenance of the machines by replacing
• pigtails on spinning machine, seals on vacuum units, belts on off-reeling units, rollers, bolts and tighten earth straps etc.
• Operations: - Competency in operating detonating cord manufacturing machines i.e. spinning machine, extrusion machine, cord crushing machine and spooling machine for Cord manufacturing
• Despatch of final product to distribution warehouses
• Operating Quality Parameters: - Competency in Quality standards required for operating detonating cord machines and the entire manufacturing processes.
• Ensure good quality product manufactured safely and on time.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Comply with Safety, Health and Environment standards: - Works according to SHE rules and regulations and Operating Instruction and within all operating procedures and quality plans
• Plant specific procedures and rules: - Knowledge of start-up & shut down processes
• Recognize and understand hazardous conditions in the plants with regards to Operating Standards
• Competency in working with hazardous chemical substances – Material Safety Data Sheet (PETN, Paraffin, PETN Destroying Agent, Calcium Stearate, Guar Gum, Pine gel, Red Glo)
• Receive and prepare waste at PE 10, Clean and shutdown plant procedure at PE10
• Equipment Maintenance: - Adherence to clearance and inspection procedures
• Cleaning of machines as per procedure
• Minor maintenance of the machines by replacing pigtails on spinning machine, seals on vacuum units, belts on off-reeling units, rollers, bolts and tighten earth straps etc.
• Operations: - Competency in operating detonating cord manufacturing machines i.e. spinning machine, extrusion machine, cord crushing machine and spooling machine for Cord manufacturing
• Despatch of final product to distribution warehouses
• Operating Quality Parameters: - Competency in Quality standards required for operating detonating cord machines and the entire manufacturing processes.
• Ensure good quality product manufactured safely and on time.

Qualifications & Experience

• A minimum qualification of Grade 12 (Matric) / N3
• Experience in a manufacturing environment would be an advantage
• Mechanically inclined

Competencies

• Time and attendance
• Work shifts
• Teamwork
• Concern for standards, with a particular emphasis on safety, health, environment and quality
• Efficiency orientation (productivity)
• Results orientated
• Problem solving ability
• Labour Flexibility

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Description

• Assist on site to take samples, analyse and compile weekly service and monthly reports
• Place monthly chemical orders and ensure all products are delivered and correct stock levels are maintained
• Site Servicing (Control equipment, calibration, dosing pumps, water chemistry)
• Ensure all chemical treated systems are fully optimized and good margins are maintained on site
• Ensure healthy growth of the accounts in the area and make sure customers are kept happy
• Ensure all treated systems are treated properly and enough stock is always on site
• Ensure all site personnel are doing the work correctly and safely (Operators, technicians and site supervisor)
• Attend monthly/quarterly review meetings with key site management personnel
• Ensure all accounts are paid up, if not to follow up and make sure accounts are not blocked
• Ensure housekeeping and Safety on all 7 sites are always up to AECI standards
• Quarterly and yearly budgets for all accounts
• Assist on periodic price increases on all accounts
• Comply to all safety rules, ensure all risk assessments and safe work procures are in place

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist on site to take samples, analyse and compile weekly service and monthly reports
• Place monthly chemical orders and ensure all products are delivered and correct stock levels are maintained
• Site Servicing (Control equipment, calibration, dosing pumps, water chemistry)
• Ensure all chemical treated systems are fully optimized and good margins are maintained on site
• Ensure healthy growth of the accounts in the area and make sure customers are kept happy
• Ensure all treated systems are treated properly and enough stock is always on site
• Ensure all site personnel are doing the work correctly and safely (Operators, technicians and site supervisor)
• Attend monthly/quarterly review meetings with key site management personnel
• Ensure all accounts are paid up, if not to follow up and make sure accounts are not blocked
• Ensure housekeeping and Safety on all 7 sites are always up to AECI standards
• Quarterly and yearly budgets for all accounts
• Assist on periodic price increases on all accounts
• Comply to all safety rules, ensure all risk assessments and safe work procures are in place

Qualifications & Experience

• Matric (Science and Maths)
• National Diploma in Science/Chemistry/Technical Field
• Expertise related to Water Treatment/Account Management/Sales
• Valid Driver’s License
• Proficiency in Excel/Word/PowerPoint  

Competencies

• Customer Centric
• Good Communication Skills
• Pro-active
• Time and task Management
• Team Player
• Highly analytical and results driven
• Working independently