Job Opportunities at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job Purpose
The Costing Clerk, will be responsible for the costing of product produced at the Brits factory, including production recording, waste and scrap recording. Working with the Cost Accountant be involved in the costing process from end to end, interacting with planning, industrial engineering, technical and production. Capturing of documentation relating to cost centres including but not limited to purchasing and costing transactions. Product costing, revaluation and standard costing setting for imported materials or tyres. Costing feedback into plant stakeholders on cost changes and daily cost centre reports associated with production cost.

• The incumbent will serve as a primary point of contact between business users and the information sourcing and maintenance.
• The incumbent will be responsible for understanding the function from cradle to grave, on an operational level and provide information relative to product costing.
• The incumbent will pro-actively interact with and control costing, with a specific focus on maintaining production cost details.

Key Accountabilities Under Responsibility

• Process costing documents, including but not limited to bill of materials (BOM), work centre, activities and routings. At all times ensuring costing records are aligned and up to date with technical and industrial engineering departments.
• Assist in calculating product standards and evaluation of cost changes together with cost accountant.
• Maintaining costing records and document control.
• Reconciliation and analysis of changes and reporting on cost impacts.
• Analysis and reporting on costing variances, ensuring business is made aware of the changes and potential impact thereof.
• Collection and capturing of production and waste and scrap data and preparing associated reports.
• Ensuring all waste and scrap documents captured and reconciled.
• Inventory accounting and reconciliation of waste yard.
• Inventory accounting relating production warehousing.
• Processing of purchase requisitions relating to department.
• Capturing of receiving documents relating to areas of responsibility.
• Journal preparation and processing as applicable.
• Understanding of costs within allocated departments and providing the information to the relevant business heads.
• Ad hoc business and operation requests relating to the finance department activities within the plant.

Key Competencies

• Attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate clearly accross all business functional levels.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Sound understanding of costing and accounting concepts.
• Sound understanding of costing allocations and reporting.
• General understanding of accounting processes and controls.
• The ability work with a large volume of data, and experience in performing detail data analysis.
• Excellent computer skills including excel and SAP.

Requirements

• Relevant Commercial / Finance Qualification
• 5 plus years’ experience detailing in product costing, working within a finance department.
• Experience in Manufacturing industry.
• Imported product costing experience will be an advantage

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Job Purpose

• We are looking for a Site Co-ordinator reporting directly to the Branch Manager.
• This is a Local role, based at the Belville MTL Site and will ensure efficient service delivery by managing service centre staff and assets productively. Maintaining client and vendor relations and performing a variety of administrative tasks.

Responsibilities

• Management of service centre staff / service delivery
• Prioritize work requirement and delegate to staff.
• Coordinate all lunch / tea times in relation to company policy and legislative requirements.
• All vehicles to leave yard as per SLA agreement (if applicable).
• All wheel positions are pressure maintained.
• Wheel positions are correctly fitted with valve caps and where necessary valve extensions.
• All tyre movements are captured on a Tyre Change Slip.
• All tyres below agreed removal mm must be removed.
• Correct matching must take place by size, tread and status.
• All tyres with Kpa readings under 15% of the recommended pressure must be removed and checked for irregularities.
• All tyres are correctly branded as per agreement.
• All wheel positions are torque prior to vehicles leaving
• Undertake all reasonable requests and instructions, given verbally or in writing that falls within the parameters of own line of duty.
• Plan collection and deliveries efficiently as per customer needs including all sites
• All tyres requiring a brand number are captured in a Branding Register. Health & Safety
• Responsible for Health and Safety at the Service Center
• All employees are provided and dressed in clean PPE.
• Yard and work area are neat and clean at all times.
• Adhere to safety standards at all times.
• All tools and equipment are kept certified and calibrated and recorded on the tool register.
• Communicate any risk, injury, loss of life or damage to company assets to management in line with prescribed company procedures.
• All work to be carried out in accordance to SOP Retreading
• All relevant paperwork must be correctly completed and filed
• Organize delivery and collection of retreads including sites
• Customer Liaison
• Fill out tyre action reports for all vehicles visiting the service centre (communicate all defects to customer).
• Identify all Maintenance Related Problems and report to the Customer.
• Maintain a good working relationship with the Customer Breakdowns
• Organize breakdown and standby rosters
• Ensure all breakdowns are attended to
• Breakdowns cannot be declined
• Breakdowns are captured in a Breakdown Log Book Asset Management
• All on site tools are captured on a tool register and signed off on a monthly basis
• All company owned vehicles are serviced when necessary
• All company owned vehicles are kept neat and clean.
• All company owned vehicles are operated with a Log Book.

Required Capabilities

• Customer satisfaction through optimum service delivery
• Skilled and motivated workforce
• Detailed knowledge of OHSA
• Prioritising work schedules and delivery

Education

• Grade 12
• MS Word & Excel (Intermediate level)
• Drivers License code 08 Experience:
• Up to 2 years supervisory experience
• Proficiency in English
• SAP system experience will be an advantage Leadership Competencies:
• Work scheduling of staff to meet customer needs
• Coordination of operations within his service centre
• Communication
• Leadership
• Confidentiality
• Customer Service
• Operational Decision making