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Specialist: Materials Requirement Planning

  • Gauteng
  • Salary: Market Related
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: Engineering Manufacturing Mining
  • Benefits: Medical Aid Pension Bonus Training Parking Maternity Leave
  • Reference: 8141
  • Employment Equity Position

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Komatsu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Introduction:

Komatsu South Africa is seeking a highly skilled Specialist: Remanufacturing Materials Requirements/Demand Planning to join our Reman Division. This Specialised Diagnostic Level role is integral to ensuring the availability, accuracy, and efficient planning of remanufactured components and raw materials that support our mining and construction OEM operations.

 

Job responsibilities:

Materials Requirements Planning & Execution

  • Execute and update a targeted plan for remanufactured components and cores (WSP, WES, WSH, WSE)
  • Develop and maintain customer component forecast databases
  • Forecast RM/PEX component usage
  • Liaise with Branch and Depot Managers to ensure customer forecast accuracy
  • Ensure component availability—either rebuilt (RM/PEX) or new
  • Plan and execute core returns to Global RM factories
  • Maintain emergency stock levels
  • Forward plan all repairable components
  • Generate OEM material schedules to meet demand
  • Coordinate ordering through to delivery, including mitigating material shortages
  • Implement continuous improvement initiatives

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

  • Facilitate planning meetings
  • Communicate schedules, forecasts, and deviations timeously
  • Maintain close interaction with Production Work Order Planners and WIP Expeditors
  • Liaise with global suppliers on component sourcing
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure on‑time material delivery

Monitoring & Control

  • Monitor system data integrity and ensure inventory accuracy
  • Check Bills of Materials and validate inventory levels
  • Minimise obsolete stock and reduce liability
  • Conduct inventory checks to ensure system accuracy
  • Assess planning assumptions vs. actual volumes
  • Resolve MRP-related queries
  • Track progress against plans

Reporting

  • Maintain up‑to‑date plans
  • Report issues and escalations immediately
  • Produce standard monthly reports
  • Provide input for OEM reporting
  • Gather and analyse MRP metrics and statistics

Person Attributes

The ideal candidate is:

  • Structured, meticulous, and highly organised
  • A strong planner with excellent attention to detail
  • Independent, disciplined, and able to meet deadlines
  • Analytical with strong problem‑solving skills
  • Consistent, reliable, and able to deliver under pressure
  • Comfortable with structured procedures and systems

 

 

 


Required Skills

  • Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen / Six Sigma: 5 to 6 years
  • ERP Systems (SAP, Syspro): 5 to 6 years

Candidate Requirements

Qualifications:

  • Degree or 3‑year Diploma in Supply Chain & Logistics or Production Planning
  • A technical qualification or background will be advantageous

 

Years of experience:

5 to 6 years relevant working experience in a manufacturing environment.
Strong supply chain experience in Production Planning within a manufacturing environment
Proven understanding of Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma or similar methodologies
Experience with ERP systems (such as SAP or Syspro) is essential
 

 

Generic knowledge requirements:

Microsoft Office:
  • MS Excel – Advanced
  • MS Access – Advanced
  • MS Word – Advanced
Core Tracker Database – Advanced
MRP Systems – Advanced
Knowledge of ISO 9001/2008
Understanding of the Occupational Health & Safety Act

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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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