Earthmoving Equipment rental firm seeks Executive. Oversee large-scale NAD 200+ Million Equipment Maintenance and CAPEX projects. Seeking an Entrepreneurial person who is strong with finances. Must be the type of person who likes to run an organisation in a professional way using best practices.

What the person must be able to do:

This role is in the Civil Engineering construction equipment sector. As such, the person must be able to execute all job tasks in a construction equipment sector. Some of the equipment includes graders, soil compactors, crawler tractors (dozers), excavators, frond-end loaders, surfacing machines,  concrete mixers, construction trucks etc. This is an executive  management role with P&L responsibility. The person must be able to make large-scale equipment CAPEX and maintenance decisions with values exceeding NAD 200 Million. The person must highly entrepreneurial and also be able to develop and optimise the organisational structure for a highly geographically distributed workforce. The person must be able to understand financials and be sufficiently mature and seasoned to make financial decisions. Some financial decisions are in the range of hundreds of millions of NAD. The person must have sufficient fiduciary acumen and responsibility to make such large decisions.

  • Executive leadership to ensure that Value is added to the overall company business strategic plan
  • Executive oversight of the construction equipment group
  • Implement an international best practices CAPEX and procurement practice
  • Development and implement CAPEX management systems to ensure prudent financial controls
  • Compile and manage large-scale financial budgets
  • Implement strong procurement and spending controls
  • Implement an industry best practice equipment maintenance practice
  • Ensure uptime SLA’s are established and adhered to. Ensure SLA reporting in place
  • Ensure logistics structures are in place and operating efficiently. Logistics structures must enable cost efficient and speedy parts distribution across a vast geographic network
  • Ensure JIT or similar practices are instituted to optimise parts stock holdings
  • Implement IT and BI systems to optimise parts stock holdings
  • Establish a list of preferred vendors and suppliers
  • Establish preferential pricing frameworks with preferred vendors and suppliers
  • Ensure the group is independently profitable
  • Ensure SHE requirements meet and exceed best practices
  • Oversee large value contract negotiations
  • Drive marketing initiatives to expand revenues
  • Implement and optimise IT systems for business process automation

Key Job Deliverables:

  • Stand-alone profitability of group
  • International best practice level CAPEX and procurement management
  • International best practice fleet management and fleet maintenance management
  • Effective and prudent financial controls
  • Effective and prudent financial and capital management
  • Effective and efficient IT systems which automate manual administration
  • SHE compliance
  • Effective and Efficient Supply Chain Systems to support fleet maintenance and fleet management best practices inclusive of Quality of preferred vendor and supplier list
  • Strong Performance Management advocator and implementer

Background work experience

  • 10+ years experience in fleet management, with preference for construction machinery
  • 5+ years experience in fleet maintenance
  • Strong preference for logistics qualification or certification
  • At least 3 years experience in a strategic role similar to this role
  • BSc or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Logistics
  • ECSA registration or equivalent advantageous
  • Strong preference for MBA or equivalent
  • Strong preference for formal Strategic Management qualification (Can be part of MBA)

Type of Person

Qualify In

  • Strategic long-term thinker
  • Seasoned individual with extensive “School of Hard Knocks” experience
  • Exceptional and proven business acumen and track record
  • Used to managing large complex portfolios
  • Exceptionally strong emotional intelligence and people skills
  • Empathy
  • Structured thinker
  • Systems thinker strongly advantageous
  • Effective administrator and administration manager
  • Exceptional financial acumen
  • Exceptional legal and contracts acumen
  • Wise and prudent person
  • Strong Drive – Proactive Self Starter
  • Enjoys motivating and inspiring a team to greatness
  • Relationship person
  • Customer service orientated
  • Positive ambitious person
  • Action and activity orientated
  • Entrepreneurial
  • Level headed and calm
  • Handles pressure well
  • Not afraid to take unpopular BUT business justified decisions

Qualify Out

  • Abrasive
  • Emotionally cold
  • Focuses on numbers and forgets about people
  • Introverted – Not a people person
  • Strongly risk averse
  • Wants to be spoon fed
  • Likes to sit behind a desk
  • Enjoys Admin
  • Lethargic
  • Confined to Analysis-Paralysis

Personality Summary:

You will be highly driven, and even forceful. You will be exceptionally results orientated. You will be the type of person who does not tolerate substandard performance. You also don’t take excuses. You expect your team to perform and do what needs to be done. You are a person who will do what needs to be done to ensure results are achieved, even if the decision is unpopular. You will be highly strategic, even a bit of a futurist. You will have the ability to spot key trends and align opportunities to those trends.

You will be a people person, and will be good at motivating and inspiring a team. You will understand the subtle nuances of persuading using leadership, rather than being a dictator. You will be exceptionally good at reading people and reading body language.

You will be exceptionally strong at administration. You will have a neat desk, and a neat home. You will be highly organised and very good at ensuring effective process. You will be able to structure an organisation to work effectively without introducing senseless bureaucracy.

You will be analytical. You will be very strong at analysing data to come up with appropriate courses of action. You will be comfortable using facts and financial information to make the correct decision.

Benefits of this Role:

  • Large and Challenging Portfolio
  • Opportunity to make your mark
  • Organisation has incredible growth prospects in Namibia and Pan Africa
  • Build something amazing

Reports to: CEO

Location: Windhoek, Namibia

Salary: Negotiable. Dependent on experience and proven past track record.

Type: Permanent

Start: ASAP

Reference: DT 87

Jobs like this don’t come around that often, so make sure you apply now.

Call Dave Lucas at 011 655 7391

Email: j87 @ dawningtruth.co.za  (Please email your CV before calling us.)

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