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Unatrac

Overview

Unatrac is the export sales office for the Mantrac Group of Caterpillar Dealerships.

We provide tailored direct export sales solutions to Caterpillar Customers across Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Siberia-Russia.

We offer Customers the complete range of new and used Caterpillar Construction, Mining, Power Generation and Materials Handling Equipment. Our teams have considerable experience in their respective fields and take pride in the level of technical assistance provided to Customers.

Who are we?

The Mansour group is one of Egypt’s top conglomerates with over 11,000 employees and an annual turnover exceeding $1 billion dollars.

Unatrac has a market leadership position in all of the African territories with a market share of above 55%.

We offer Customers the complete range of new and used Caterpillar Construction, Mining, Power Generation and Materials Handling Equipment.

Career Opportunities

We are looking for graduates to continue our exceptional customer service and become part of our 18 month graduate scheme in which you will work across a number of roles to become a well respected technical expert in your chosen field.

You will gain experience in our technical support, sales and marketing departments combined with travel to active projects within the territories and technical training from Caterpillar.

If in sales this would mean you would work within one of our departments selling to companies running projects in a specified territory eg mining equipment in Ghana. Requires meeting with contractors, negotiation and project management. This may entail travel to Ghana, Europena head office meetings etc.

Training and Development

The training you will receive is diverse and comprehensive, including:

Product training with Caterpillar.
On the job training on live projects in Africa.
Business Education Training- modular based training to develop interpersonal and commercial skill set.

What we look for

We are looking for Graduates from Mechanical, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering backgrounds. (2.2 and above)

An outgoing nature and flexibility are important factors for us. The role will involve travel to our territories and also the European Head offices of many large multinational organizations so you will be spending time away from the UK.

We are looking for our engineers to become technical specialists in Caterpillar products and be successful in a commercial environment so strong communication skills are required.

Case Studies

Oliver Evans

University of Sheffield – Graduated 2007

BEng Mechanical Engineering

MSc Computational Biomechanics

I am currently working in the mining sales department. My role involves supporting the sales manager for the territories of Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone. This role involves researching new mining opportunities in the territories and then following up by quoting and producing machine specifications for individual customers. The role is a challenging one with face to face contact with customers.

From the start of my employment with Unatrac I spent the initial 4 months in the parts department understanding the ordering systems, methods and environmental difficulties whilst running through basic training and machine familiarisation. At the end of my first 4 month placement I undertook my first visit to Africa to conduct a customer survey of parts supply/ usage in Ghana.

After 4 months I joined the mining dept to increase my understanding of the business operations as a whole. I have since spent the last several months in Tasmania, Australia on secondment with Caterpillar learning about their underground mining machines. Since my return my role has been more sales focussed with more of an active role in the quote /sales process with customers.

The role has allowed me to travel to Spain, Belgium, Ghana and Australia. Personal development is important and I am scheduled to participate in courses in Spain and Germany in the coming year as well as visiting my current territories.

I like the fact that although a multi-national company with multi-national business opportunities, Unatrac also has a smaller company feel and are fairly flexible as an employer. I like the fact that Unatrac are quick to get employees such as myself involved within the business and also on site to the territories in which we operate.

I really enjoy that the type of work gives me the opportunity to see so many different parts of the world and is not solely office based. I enjoy the responsibility I have been given in the role and being able to work in an exciting job sector, such as the mining industry. This role has allowed me to combine my engineering background in a more commercial setting.