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Product Support & Sales Representative (CE)

  • KwaZulu-Natal
  • Salary: Market Related
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: Construction Manufacturing Mining
  • Benefits: Medical Aid Pension Bonus
  • Reference: 7856
  • Employment Equity Position

Apply before Jan 29 2026 | 15 Days left

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Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

    Introduction:

    Komatsu South Africa is excited to announce a fantastic opportunity in the Operations Division for a Product Support and Sales Representative based in Pinetown. This role involves delivering expert technical guidance to internal and external clients in relation to Komatsu Heavy Earth Moving Equipment

    Summary description of role:

     

    1. Safety, Health & Environment:

    • Proactive safety implementation: Ensures adherence to SHE policies, conducts safety events, and integrates safety into work planning.
    • Knowledge transfer and compliance: Instructs colleagues on safety procedures, verifies understanding, and enforces the use of protective gear.
    • Hazard management and reporting: Identifies and reports hazardous situations, monitors safety equipment, and provides feedback on safety event effectiveness.

    2. Machine inspections:

    • Comprehensive inspection planning & execution: Plans and conducts inspections of components and undercarriages, ensuring adherence to schedules and customer agreements.
    • Documentation and customer liaison: Manages component history files, verifies warranties and manuals, and communicates inspection results to customers.
    • Reporting and follow-up: Completes and files inspection reports, submits copies to relevant departments, and recommends necessary upgrades.

    3. Service & Repairs:

    • Service call and repair planning: Plans and preparations for service calls and component modifications, including warranty repairs.
    • Technical advice and support: Provides technical advice, liaises with internal departments, and drives after-market parts sales through technical expertise.
    • Monitoring and documentation: Monitors machine down situations, oversees component overhauls, and completes required documentation for services and repairs.

    4. Technical product reporting & advice:

    • Data collection and reporting: Gathers and analyzes data from inspections and Komtrax to generate reports on equipment performance.
    • Technical training and support: Provides technical training to customers and field service personnel and completes field campaigns.
    • Product improvement and monitoring: Monitors machine hours, tracks component availability, and submits technical service information (TSI) for issues.

    5. Drives after-market parts & service through advice:

    • Product research and implementation: Researches and recommends products to enhance customer equipment and installs and commissions after-market parts.
    • Cost saving and supplier liaison: Conducts benchmark exercises for cost savings and liaises with suppliers for AMS downloads.

    6. Controls warranty claims:

    • Warranty process management: Plans and executes warranty claims procedures, including document preparation and liaison with the warranties department.
    • Component monitoring and support: Monitors components after repairs, assists with troubleshooting, and supports site personnel during commissioning.
    • Reporting and business development: Compiles warranty reports, identifies new business opportunities for Reman components, and reports on sales and demand.

     

     
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Candidate Requirements

     Qualifications:  

    • A Trade Certificate in Heavy Earth Moving Mechanic.

     
    Experience:

    • Minimum of 4 years’ post-trade experience with heavy earthmoving equipment in the mining or construction industry.
    • 2 years’ supervisory experience in the construction Industry (an advantage).

     
    Specific knowledge and skill requirements:

    • Driver's license (Essential)
    • Microsoft Office (Intermediate)
    • Strong sales and customer service skills.
    • Technical aptitude and ability to understand complex products.
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
    • Ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
    • Problem-solving and analytical skills.
    • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

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About Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

We build machines to answer the needs of society. For more than a century, our brand has been synonymous with connection to community. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.

In 1921, Meitaro Takeuchi founded our company in the town that shares our name. He did so to provide work for the local community after the closure of a nearby copper mine.

Today, we have come a long way from where we started. We have evolved into a truly global company with a diverse workforce comprised of different nationalities and beliefs. And it’s by harnessing the potential of all our different talents and unique perspectives that we push ourselves further.

We explore and help advance the boundaries of technology, developing smart construction equipment and autonomous mining trucks, creating underwater electric bulldozers and even conceptualizing an excavator capable of operating on the moon. Our products and solutions directly support industries essential to the ongoing development of modern societies and everyday life.

For our core customers in forestry, construction and mining, we make big machines that take on even bigger challenges, gentle giants answering the needs of society.

We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens. In communities across the globe, we find purpose in creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, business, and our planet thrive together.

Harnessing our collective expertise to go further, we stay true to our brand promise: Creating value together.

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