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Foreman: ME

  • eMalahleni
  • Salary: Market Related
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: Construction Manufacturing Mining
  • Benefits: Medical Aid Pension Training Parking Maternity Leave
  • Reference: 8140
  • Employment Equity Position

Apply before Feb 20 2026 | 15 Days left

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

    Introduction:

    Komatsu has an opportunity for a driven and ambitious Foreman with exceptional technical skills to join our team in our Khwezela branch in eMalahleni. The successful candidate will have a relevant trade, extensive experience in a workshop environment in surface mining and 2 or more years supervisory experience in an unionised environment.

     

    Job Responsibilities:

     

     

    • Determines detailed priorities with regards to planned work.
    • Reports on section/project progress.
    • Provides input into the planning of the human capital requirements of the team/section.
    • Supervises the team.
    • Evaluates team members' achievement of results against agreed priorities within the performance management framework.
    • Provides input into planning the section's budget.
    • Submits staff S&T and overtime / expense claims for approval.
    • Communicates changes to policies & procedures to subordinate staff.
    • Plans the roll-out of contractual /service level agreements (SLA’s) implementation.
    • Resolves issues /problems/conflict in a positive, win-win manner.
    • Remains up-to-date with Safety procedures.
    • Plans for inspection of equipment (new and used in stock), with regards to dates, workshops, nomination of service, stock, and other resources.
    • Schedules, forecasts and plans Repairs and Maintenance in the maintenance planning system.
    • Machine inspections.
    • Setting the goals for the team.
    • Parts and inventory management.
    • Responsible for training and development of the team

Required Skills

  • Sap: 2 to 3 years
  • Ms Office: 2 to 3 years
  • Supervisory Experience: 2 to 3 years

Candidate Requirements

    Minimum Requirements:

     

    Qualification

     

    • Trade Certificate (essential) (HEM/millwright preferred).
    • Valid driver's license (essential).

     

    Experience:

     

    • 4 years or more post Trade experience in a workshop environment.
    • 2 years supervisory experience of technical staff (an advantage).

     

    Knowledge Requirements:

     

    • Knowledge of and experience in planning, scheduling, and managing projects (essential).
    • Occupational Health and Safety Act.
    • Fundamentals of Labour relations Act.
    • Basic knowledge of SEIFSA agreements.
    • Computer literacy: Excel Basic; SAP (basic).

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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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