Product Engineer

Volvo Trucks; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Volvo Group Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd is seeking a technically skilled professional to provide sales support for Volvo Trucks products, ensuring alignment with market expectations and legal requirements. You will develop product specifications, support new projects, and coordinate with internal teams and external stakeholders in Southern Africa.

Responsibilities include configuring vehicles for deals, managing order processes with the Durban plant, and delivering product training across VGSA &

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of technical post-qualification experience in the automotive industry.
• Exposure to heavy vehicles and their components.

Responsibilities

• Technically supporting product and sales teams to ensure local product offers align with Volvo Trucks strategies and market expectations.
• Develop specifications for new product offerings in line with legal requirements.
• Support internal VGSA organization with product, segment, unique specifications, product performance, new projects, and industry knowledge.
• Assist Sales Team with specialized configurations and liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Pro Builder regarding market requests and changes and manage local adaptations.
• Check configurations for confirmed deals before order planning and monitor the order book quality.
• Coordinate orders and changes with International Manufacturing Durban Plant & Technical Sales Support Centre.
• Input technical information on marketing material and identify new homologation requirements for orders.
• Support transport logistics and training for VGSA & Africa and communicate updates.

Skills

Technical support

Automotive knowledge

Product configuration

Stakeholder liaison

Education

National Diploma in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering

Tools

Pro Builder

Job description

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

What You Will Do

At Volvo Trucks you will contribute to the transformation of our company, the transport industry and society at large. You will:

Purpose Of The Role

To provide technical support to the sales function to ensure product suitability and optimized production and delivery processes to support business objectives.

Reporting

This position reports to Senior Manager Product Support.

Job Objectives

• Technically supporting product and sales teams in (VGSA) Volvo Group Southern Africa to ensure that local product offers align with Volvo Trucks strategies as well as market expectations and operating conditions.
• Develop specifications for new product offering in line with legal requirements.
• Supporting internal VGSA organization with product, segment, unique specifications, Product performance, new projects, and industry knowledge
• Support the Sales Team with specialized configurations.
• Liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
• Liaison with Pro builder regarding market requests and changes.
• Manage introduction of local Customer Adaptation solutions to Volvo International Manufacturing Durban Plant and recommend discontinuation where necessary.
• Checking of configurations for confirmed deals before order planning.
• Manage order book quality, monitor production slots, ordering and co-ordination of orders and order changes with (International Manufacturing Durban Plant & Technical Sales Support Centre).
• Manage input of technical information on marketing material.
• Identify new homologation requirements for incoming orders.
• Manage Transport and Vessel Bookings CBU orders.
• Provide Product & Systems training to VGSA & Africa .
• Communicate updates & restrictions.
• Support marketing on events.
• Develop and/or update processes, procedures, and work instructions.

Who are you?

Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:

Qualification & Job Experience

• National Diploma in Mechanical/ Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of technical post-qualification experience in the automotive industry (essential).
• Exposure to heavy vehicles and their components.

Key Competencies

• Good understanding of Automotive market developments.
• Automotive and vehicle application knowledge.
• Vehicle legislation application.
• Heavy automotive technical knowledge (essential; intermediate).
• Systems and processes (essential; intermediate).
• Computer literacy – (essential; intermediate level).
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Communication skills (oral, written).
• Interpersonal skills (networking; conflict handling).

Short listed candidates must complete and sign personal verification permission, consent and indemnity declarations, to inter alia perform reference, criminal, credit, qualification, vetting process (if applicable to position) and any other checks deemed necessary.

Volvo Group Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer. We encourage people with disability to apply.

Application Closing Date: 14 October 2026.

We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.

Who We Are And What We Believe In

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.