UD Trucks Southern Africa: YES Programme 2024 / 2025
UD Trucks Southern Africa: YES Programme 2024 / 2025 has become available in Gauteng for unemployed graduates in possession of the below qualifications. If interested, kindly check the below requirements. STREAK OF LUCK!
UD Trucks Southern Africa invites unemployed graduates to apply for a 12-month Graduate Temporary Job Opportunity / Yes4Youth Porgramme 2024 / 2025.
Company: UD Trucks Southern Africa
Job Type: Graduate Internship / Learnership / Traineeship / Job
Location: Rosslyn, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Closing Date: Not Specified
UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry.
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
The following graduate Job Opportunities are open for applications:
YC: IT Support
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.
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
- Analyse 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
- Analyse 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 analyse issues generated from Integrated and associated applications
- Suggest optimised 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 mobilises 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
YC: CA Administrator
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 authorisation 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 organising 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).
YC: CD Assistant
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 and Experience:
- 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
YC: Customer Service Support
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
- Diploma or Degree in;-
- Supply Chain
- Logistics
- 1-2 years in the commercial vehicle industry
YC: Accountant
This position will be responsible for the Monthly sales provision accounting, inventory reconciliation and accounts payable processing.
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 BCom Accounting Degree or equivalent
YC: Legal Assistant
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.
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 LLB Degree;
- Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise tasks; and
- Possess a high degree of accuracy and careful attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
YC: Logistics Engineer
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.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Responsible for UDPS implementations for Logistics
- Responsible for finalising 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 standardisation 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 Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Mechatronics
- Or studying towards the 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.
Job Related Skills:
- Communication.
- Able to work without supervision.
- Planning.
- Organising.
- Administration skills.
- Able to work neatly and accurately.
- Good time management.
How to Apply for UD Trucks Southern Africa: YES Programme 2024 / 2025
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