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MABEL SIBONGILE ZULU

Service Administrator
Pretoria

Summary

Service Advisor coordinating end-to-end order processing, customer communication, and service call management for mining-site support operations. Manages 20–40 invoices, quotes, and purchase requests per month while handling SAP job opening, job costing, invoicing, stock transfers, and service report approval and keeping technicians scheduled and sites supplied. Leads a team of 18 technicians and 1 stores role across attendance, leave cover, and job allocation to protect turnaround times and client service.

Overview

4
4
Languages
2027
2027
years of professional experience

Work History

Service Administrator

Integrated Fire Technologies
2025 - Current

Creating quotes for installation, inspections and repairs

Create and convert (Sage) quotes for installation, inspections and repairs

Invoicing of installation, inspections and repairs

Distribute soft copies of invoices and job reports, save scanned originals and file and hard copies

Do stock transfers between warehouse

Updating and maintaining information on customer portals APMT portal

Create service certificates for completed jobs

Create purchase orders and for stock items, consumables

Update installation and service databases

Follow up on go to the go aheads quoting that was sent to customers

Monthly planning of inspections and services for allocated areas

Service advisor

Trysome Auto Electrical Engineering
04.2023 - 10.2024
  • Oversees the end-to-end order life cycle for assigned customer accounts to ensure timely order fulfilment for Man on site jobs & parts supply.
  • Inventory control & audit Customer Support.
  • Acts as direct-point-of-contact for customer to resolve order processing, scheduling, and shipping queries to ensure an overall positive customer experience.
  • Provides consultative, order life cycle information to customers (lead time, availability, minor technical aid), making recommendations and providing guidance.
  • Order Processing - manage the processing of customer orders through order receipt, exception identification and resolution to ensure orders are fulfilled to customer requirements.
  • Approve the leave days for the team, monitor the attendance & assign the stand in/replacement on their leave days.
  • Checking & approving service reports on CRM
  • Managing a team of 18 technicians & 1 stores (based at client’s sites)
  • Replenishing the stock for the stores
  • Allocating technicians to jobs/sites
  • Initiating Stock transfer request from main warehouse to the stores
  • Monitor Stock levels according to the weekly Stock counts performed.
  • Open the jobs & do the service call management on SAP
  • Issuing the pick slips to the main warehouse
  • Job costing (on SAP)
  • Requesting purchase orders from clients before dispatching the technicians
  • Developing, managing, and maintaining a positive relationship with the clients (Mining companies)
  • Attention to detail Customer service Technical/engineering skill Hard worker
  • Sending invoices to the clients
  • Liaise with safety dept to make sure the technicians go for their medical & inductions at the mines.
  • Preparing the quotes and sales orders on SAP
  • Scheduling the Collision avoidance system & Proximity avoidance system installations & maintenance
  • Liaise with procurement department regarding the parts replenishment at the stores (client site) If there is no stock at main warehouse.

Service advisor

Babcock Africa Services
04.2019 - 03.2023
  • Conclude accurate job costing.
  • Correct and timeous job opening and closing
  • Effective time keeping of all workshop activities.
  • Provide customer feedback on vehicle repair/maintenance status.
  • Upsell parts and services and positively contribute to the profitability of the Workshop.
  • Apply workshop policies and procedures in the scope of work.
  • Ensure customer satisfaction on all services and or repair related issue Through courteous and polite customer interaction.
  • Update maintenance & service schedules.
  • Liaise with suppliers regarding purchase requirements as deemed necessary
  • Accurate and effectively supplying quotes.
  • Creating time sheets for wage employees
  • Submitting of wages to payroll

Service Administrator

Peugeot Centurion
12.2015 - 03.2019
  • Booking in cars for service
  • Ensuring appointments are convenient for the customer and the Department.
  • Identify customer requirements and supply an accurate inclusive costing
  • Produce accurate job cards using automate
  • Creating invoices and receipting using automate
  • Filing
  • Writing reports
  • Reconcile the cash received and invoice created.

Admin Assistant

Trenstar SA
09.2012 - 12.2015
  • Preparing time sheets
  • Issuing PPE
  • Answer phone calls & forwarding calls to appropriate staff.
  • Spreadsheet creation & management
  • Maintaining the attendance register
  • Attending to queries of employees
  • Photocopying, scanning & faxing documents.
  • Filing & retrieving mail
  • Clocking trucks on & off dock
  • Writing reports (Month end status report, end of shift pictures)
  • Creating and maintaining purchase orders using Pastel sage evolution
  • Carrying out all assigned admin duties

Administrative officer

Master of High Court (Department of Justice)
04.2011 - 03.2012
  • Handling of incoming and outcoming correspondence
  • Keep record of all correspondence received
  • Handling of Complaints and queries
  • Updating and maintaining the filling system
  • Drawing the existing files
  • Open new files & capturing
  • Dealing with clients telephonically and over the counter
  • Updating of weekly statistics

Education

BTECH - Operations management

Tshwane University of technology
01-2013

Diploma - Operations management

Vaal University of technology
01-2009

Matric - undefined

Soshanguve Secondary School
Pretoria
01-2005

Skills

Customer service

Service scheduling

Order management

Job costing

Escalation handling

Workshop productivity tracking

SAP

CRM

Excel

Inventory control

Purchase order processing

References

  • Zoe Nyingwa
  • zoe@ift.africa 011 894 2906 Boksburg
  • Rodney, Kutumela, rodney.kutumela@trysome.cc, 011 823 5650, Trysome Auto-Electrical Engineering, Boksburg
  • Oniko, Mrwetyana, Oniko.Mrwetyana@babcock.co.za,
  • 010 001 2561, Babcock Africa Service, Benoni
  • Abram, Molakeng, Abrammolakeng@gmail.com, 076 805 5815, Peugeot Centurion, Centurion
  • Millicent, Masilela, MillicentM@trenstar.co.za, 012 676 3300, Trenstar SA, Silverton
  • Tirhani, Shiphamele, Tshiphamele@justice.gov.za, 012 339 7941, Department of Justice, Pretoria

Timeline

Service advisor

Trysome Auto Electrical Engineering
04.2023 - 10.2024

Service advisor

Babcock Africa Services
04.2019 - 03.2023

Service Administrator

Peugeot Centurion
12.2015 - 03.2019

Admin Assistant

Trenstar SA
09.2012 - 12.2015

Administrative officer

Master of High Court (Department of Justice)
04.2011 - 03.2012

Matric - undefined

Soshanguve Secondary School

Diploma - Operations management

Vaal University of technology

BTECH - Operations management

Tshwane University of technology

Service Administrator

Integrated Fire Technologies
2025 - Current
MABEL SIBONGILE ZULUService Administrator