South Africa: Vehicle Engineer: Africa (1 Year FTC) posted by Abantu Staffing Solutions

REQUIREMENTS

• South African citizen
• Minimum National Diploma or Degree in the field of Engineering
• Fluency in English
• Working knowledge of German
• Experience in an automotive engineering environment
• Exposure to and utilisation of project management systems
• Experience in the company’s group development environment
• Competency in Office Software (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
• Ability to plan and execute projects
• Ability to visualise, anticipate and predict the course of activities within the project
• Ability to monitor, follow up on the project progress, identify major project issues and to escalate these in project management forums
• Ability to lead and motivate engineering teams under pressure
• Ability to represent product engineering confidently at forums, locally at the director level and internationally
• Ability to operate and negotiate across cultural lines
• Ability to do presentations to multinational groups
• Complex problem-solving abilities
• Good interpersonal skills (negotiation and communication)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Represent vehicle engineering during divisional activities, by participating in projects, discussions, and presentations to define/ negotiate/ agree on engineering requirements and/ or support/ advise engineering matters to ensure compliance with country requirements
• Monitor the SSA vehicle development project budget by evaluating the project development costs for testing activities and manpower capacity
• Assist SSA TPL in defining the engineering and development scope, technical requirements and changes of components.
• Assist in ensuring test fleet monitoring data is correctly captured in the market, and participate in various development investigations
• Initiate country needs and requirements for all priority identified countries in the African region to cluster the testing requirements for each market
• Contribute to the competitor analysis database for all identified countries in Africa
• Analyse and report the monitoring trends and research the market trends in relation to fuels, environment, products, legislation changes, etc.