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    Company description

    ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited is the largest steel producer on the African continent, currently producing more than 5 million tonnes of liquid steel per annum.

    The company has a depth of technical and managerial expertise carefully nurtured since 1928, a reputation for reliability and a sharply defined business focus, which has forged the organisation into a modern, highly competitive supplier of steel products to the domestic and global markets.
    This has been achieved through ongoing alignment with international best practices and a comprehensive understanding of the steel business environment, ensuring the company’s continued global competitiveness and participation in international markets.

    ArcelorMittal South Africa's global standing is further underpinned through becoming part of the world’s largest steel producer, the ArcelorMittal Group. The company is the world's number one steel company, with 316 000 employees worldwide.

    ArcelorMittal is the leader in all major global markets, including automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging, with leading R&D and technology, as well as sizeable captive supplies of raw materials and outstanding distribution networks.

    With an industrial presence in 27 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, ArcelorMittal has a balanced geographic diversity within all the key steel markets, both developing and developed.

    Through this association ArcelorMittal South Africa has access to world-class research and development, best practice processes, aggressive procurement contracts and international market leverage to ensure the company remains at the cutting edge of the international steel industry.

    The company’s ability to generate profits and cash throughout the fluctuations of the steel cycle is testimony to the success of years of intensive business re-engineering and the cultivation of a continuous improvement culture that has embedded ArcelorMittal South Africa’s position among the world’s lowest cash cost producers of steel.

    Bursary description
    The learners selected for the ArcelorMittal engineering programmes are chosen from school level. Interviews take place during the April school holiday annually. Bursaries are awarded to full-time university students.

    Learners selected must have successfully undergone all of the selection processes and have passed grade 12 with results that meet or are higher than the university requirements.

    These learners will attend a traditional university of their choice providing that the University is approved by ArcelorMittal South Africa for the discipline of study.

    ArcelorMittal South Africa offers engineering bursaries in the following engineering
    disciplines:

    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Metallurgical Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Information Technology.

    Upon completion of studies ArcelorMittal South Africa has an exciting career opportunity for graduates to acquire work experience and apply theoretical knowledge in any of our world class manufacturing industry through our candidate engineer programme.

    Will I have support?
    Mentors are allocated  to all successful bursars.

    Technician Association (ETA) is a forum of young professionals who were previously ArcelorMittal  bursars and have obtained their formal qualification. Members of this group of engineers and technicians from different  engineering disciplines are available to assits  bursars.

    The Young Professionals Forum forum  creates a vehicle  for technical and business related information  sharing, to promote the different technical
    disciplines and to offer general assistance with regard to work related problems.

    How will my progress be monitored?
    ArcelorMittal  South Africa is not only concerned about results but also about the well-being and  personal development of the bursars . Regular university visits are  conducted  twice a year to:

    • Check on the general well-being of the bursar.
    • Evaluate progress of each bursar per semester.
    • Decide whether a bursary for the following semester/year should be re-instated, cancelled or suspended
    • Receive results from university per semester.
    • Discuss academic progression.
    • Bursars who are in their second and third academic years will be required to do six weeks practical training (vacation work) at the end of the year as prescribed by the universities.
    Requirements and eligibility

    Candidates currently in Grade 12 who have obtained  at least 70% (Depending  on the university requirements) in  Grade 11 for both  Mathematics and Physical  Science. An aggregate of  at least 60%  is also  required for the rest of  Grade 12 with the minuimum symbols as above.

    How to apply

    BEng students can apply to  recruitmentsa@arcelornittal.com for a bursary in any of the above-mentioned engineering  disciplines.  Your email must clearly indicate that it is a bursary application  on the subject line and must  be accompanied  by  a short CV and academic transcript .  Should you application be successful ArcelorMittal will invite you for an interview.

    Email

    recruitmentsa@arcelornittal.com

    Contact number

    016 889 9111

    Website

    https://arcelormittalsa.com/Peopleamp;Careers/Bursaries/EngineeringBursaries.aspx

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