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Trainer Assessor

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JobReq ID:  55372
Type of work:  On site
Type of contract:  Open-ended/permanent
Full/Part Time:  Full time
Salary Range: 
Location: 

Kathu, ZA

ABOUT US

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Job Purpose

 

The ideal Trainer Assessor provides expert technical training, coaching, and competency assessment within the OTR tyre industry, ensuring personnel are equipped with the skills and knowledge required to perform their duties safely and effectively. They build strong relationships with site teams and client stakeholders, fostering a culture of continuous learning, compliance, and operational excellence. Resourceful and adaptable, they play a critical role in developing workforce capability, maintaining training standards, and supporting safe, efficient, and high-quality tyre management operations.

For more information about Otraco Southern Africa, please read the details below.

Responsibilities:

  • Deliver technical, vocational, safety, and induction training programmes to employees and clients.
  • Plan, prepare, and coordinate training resources to support effective learning outcomes.
  • Conduct training needs analyses and develop training plans to address competency gaps.
  • Perform vocational assessments to evaluate and verify employee and client competence.
  • Assist in the development, review, validation, and maintenance of training materials and assessment tools.
  • Monitor training progress, maintain training matrices, and ensure timely completion of required training.
  • Prepare and submit training plans, site reports, timesheets, and training records in line with company requirements.
  • Conduct site audits, compliance reviews, and gap analyses, reporting any non-conformances or safety concerns.
  • Provide technical and operational support to site management teams while maintaining regular communication with trainees and stakeholders.
  • Promote a strong safety culture by complying with Occupational Health and Safety requirements and supporting continuous workforce development.

 

 

Qualifications & Experience Required

 

Education, Master, other certification:

  • Grade 12 National Senior Certificate
  • A valid drivers license
  • Minimum 4 years in Off the Road Tyre Services industry.
  • Certificate in Facilitation
  • Certificate in Conducting Outcome Based Assessments (SAQA 115753)
  • Qualification in ODETDP (Advantageous)

 

Skills:

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and motivate diverse teams.
  • Sound understanding of the working mechanism of the tools or the machinery they are handling.
  • Good supervisory skills and ability to pay attention to the details.
  • Strong understanding of mining safety regulations.
  • Strong Microsoft and report writing Skills.

 

With over 50 years’ experience delivering off-the-road (OTR) and light mobile equipment (LME) tyre management solutions, Otraco help customers to maximise tyre life, increase productivity, reduce waste and improve safety. Otraco’s highly skilled teams are in 60+ customer mining operations across three continents in Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and Chile.

Otraco offers a robust portfolio of OTR tire management solutions that track tires across the full lifecycle, such as its computerized Otracom platform. Otraco’s offering will complement Bridgestone’s world-class OTR products and solutions, including Bridgestone MasterCore*3 surface mining tires and the tire monitoring and management solution. Bridgestone Southern Africa Mining services and OTRACO Southern Africa have joined forces to accelerate Mining tyre management and mobility solutions in Southern Africa, under one banner. Together Bridgestone and OTRACO have market-leading Mining tyre management and mobility solutions.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Bridgestone, what really matter is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive payment; we will provide you:

  • A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
  • The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
  • A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
  • Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
  • A diverse and inclusive team.

We are committed to create an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality, and helps our increasingly diverse teammates, customers, and communities thrive, by providing equal opportunities in employment. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.

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