Rental Intern M/F, Soweto

CFAO South Africa is a key player in South Africa’s mobility market. With more than 7,200 colleagues and over 160 sites, CFAO South Africa offers vehicle and truck sales and rentals, supply chain solutions, logistics management, material handling, automotive assembly, and the import and export of automotive components.

We are a regional division of the pan‑African business CFAO Group, headquartered in France and a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation in Japan.

CFAO South Africa has a strong expansion vision in South Africa, while supporting CFAO Group’s expansion strategy into the African continent in the automotive sector and other sectors, including healthcare and renewable energy.

We are a significant contributor to the support, development, and growth of the automotive industry in South Africa and across Africa.

Rental Intern (M/F)– South Africa The purpose of this internship program is to:

Offer the intern practical experience/exposure in our working environment

Allow the intern invaluable experience on how to apply their studies in the working world

Allow the intern an opportunity to showcase their work experience gained which could be viewed as attractive to potential future employers

These will include and is by no means limited to the following tasks:

Planning daily transport trips (deliveries and collections)

Update and reconcile MRR machine return register daily

Liaise status of deliveries and collections to internal and external customers

Filing and other admin duties

Update transport planning boards daily

Perform any other duties as may be required for the efficient operation of the transport department.

Resolving conflicts and negotiating with others– handling complaints, settling disputes and resolving grievances and conflicts or otherwise negotiating with others

Evaluating information to determine compliance with standards– using relevant information and individual judgement to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations or standards

Making decisions and solving problems– analysing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Development and team building– encourage and building mutual trust, respect and cooperation among team members.

Performing for or working directly with the public– performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes attending to customer needs and receiving clients or guests.

Updating and using relevant knowledge– keeping up to date technically and applying new knowledge to your job or assigned tasks.

Work styles

Dependability– job requires being reliable, responsible, dependable and fulfilling set obligations

Leadership– job requires a willingness to lead, take charge and offer opinions and suggest directions.

Integrity– job requires being honest and ethical

Attention to detail– job requires being careful about attention to detail and being thorough and meticulous.

Initiative– job requires a willingness to take on a new/additional responsibilities and challenges.

Self‑control – job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger and avoiding aggressive behaviour even in very difficult situations.

Cooperation– job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good nature cooperative attitude.

Concern for others– job requires being sensitive to others needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.

Analytical thinking– job requires analysing information and using logic to address work related issues and problems.

Independence– job requires developing one’s ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision and depending on oneself to get things done.

Required profile

Excellent computer literacy (MS Office– Word and Excel)

Knowledge of related legislation Labour Relations Act (LRA); Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA); Employment Equity Act (EEA); Skills Development Act (SDA); OSHACT and POPI

Required to travel within South Africa, able to work in a fast‑paced HC environment

Excellent customer service orientation

Ability to work under pressure

Excellent interpersonal skills– approachable and able to build effective relationships with line managers and employees at all levels

A champion for change

Demonstrate a professional confident can‑do attitude

Positive self‑starter, flexible, results‑driven, accurate and attentive to detail

Excellent organisation and time management skills– committed to meet and exceed deadlines

Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

Integrity and trust are essential– must maintain confidentiality

Required abilities

Oral expression– the ability to communicate information and ideas easily – in speaking so others will understand.

Oral comprehension– the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences

Written comprehension– the ability to read and understand information and ideas in writing so others will understand

Written expression– the ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand

Problem sensitivity– the ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong it does not involve solving the problem, only recognising there is a problem.

Speech clarity– the ability to speak clearly so others can understand you

Deductive reasoning– the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Inductive reasoning– the ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)

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