Belgotex: Graduate Internship Programme 2025

Belgotex is Africa’s leading carpet and artificial grass manufacturer. As a soft flooring specialist we design, make, and distribute high-quality broadloom and modular carpets with custom solutions available to the commercial market. Our extensive product portfolio includes luxury and specialist vinyls and artificial grass.

The Internship Programme is aimed at enhancing youth employability through the provision of much needed work experience within the below fields.

The following Internship Opportunities are open for applications:

Finance Graduate

Purpose of this role: The purpose of this role will be to perform a variety of operational and analytical tasks within the Finance Department.

Duties: Assisting debtors’/ creditor’s clerks with unresolved claims. Carry out follow-ups regarding invoices. Customer liaison on problem accounts. Accurately load price lists. Reconcile internal accounts. Perform all admin and ad hoc tasks as assigned by designated supervisor

Requirements: Bachelor of Commerce Degree / Diploma in Accounting or relevant equivalent qualification

Marketing Graduate

Purpose of this role: The purpose of this role is to complete all admin-related tasks within the Marketing team.

Duties: Receiving all marketing briefs, reviewing them for completeness, assigning them to the appropriate marketing team members, and managing the workflow to ensure timely attention to each brief. Attend to new user requests, upload new imagery onto the Media Library, ensure all imagery is correctly labelled and tagged. Manage and coordinate photography requests, including scheduling photographers, tracking retainer days, distributing received images, and uploading them to the Media Library. Manage and maintain promotional items for each branch, Export team, and Marketing, including annual stock updates, quality reviews, pricing, and quantity assessments. Handle general website updates, including managing customer information, updating contact details, and uploading new documents like brochures, certificates, and spec sheets.

Requirements: A completed Marketing or Public Relations Degree

Mechanical Engineering Graduate

Purpose of this role: To assist the mechanical department to carry out mechanical engineering work in accordance with what meets all requirements where mentorship will be provided to ensure safe work practices.

Duties: Measure the performance of mechanical components, devices & engines. Assist in maintaining & modifying equipment to ensure that is it safe, reliable & efficient. Use computer aided design/ modelling softwares. Assist the seniors in product designing & product testing. Work on any other ad hoc tasks assigned by manager

Requirements: A degree / diploma / Btech in Mechanical Engineering or relevant qualification

Electrical Engineering Graduate

Purpose of this role: To assist the electrical department to carry out electrical engineering work in accordance with what meets all requirements where mentorship will be provided to ensure safe work practices.

Duties: Fill in a logbook. Identify, label and understand the use of various electrical components. This includes understanding the mechanics behind the component, know what it does, and how it is used for the different applications. Perform testing and troubleshooting on various electrical components. Medium voltage switch gear in the substation – how the mechanics work, transformers, tripping and safety relays. Working with Artisans to understand components of the Electrical department

Requirements: A degree/ diploma / Btech in Electrical Engineering or relevant qualification

Procurement Graduate

Purpose of this role: The Purpose of this role is to offer an opportunity to utilize and expand your academic background in the Procurement department providing assistance to the Buyers when procuring goods and services that are essential to the business’s operations.

Duties: Data capturing on ERP system. Follow procedure for procurement of goods and services. Assist in communicating the company’s expectations to the suppliers. Work with the Planners and Buyers to track, control and track timeous delivery of goods and services. Assist the Buyers with requesting samples from suppliers to ensure that the product that is delivered meets the product requirements/specifications.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or similar

IT Graduate

Purpose of this role: The main purpose of this role is providing IT support through the department’s Helpdesk to ensure the employees with the business have efficient and effective IT support services available. This role will be responsible for assisting the Networking and Development team within the department.

Duties: Responsible for operating the IT Helpdesk and responding to IT queries. Assist the IT team in providing windows, desktop and infrastructure support. To assist facilitate asset management as well as audit requirement preparations. Troubleshoot and solve common computer problems. End Point Device management: Laptops, mobile devices, 2in1, Desktops

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Software Development / Networking or similar

Inbound Logistics Graduate

Purpose of this role: The purpose of a Logistics graduate is to provide administrative and coordinative support across the department. The Graduate will be responsible for assisting the warehouse team in ensuring that products are registered and packed correctly for transportation or storage.

Duties: Responsible to support and measure logistics, planning, warehouse, stock control and risk performance. Extract and analyse information from key systems offering valuable insights and present recommendations and enhancements. Provide administrative support to the Warehouse team whilst shadowing and learning from them. Assist with the processing of orders on CAMS. Provide friendly and empathetic communication, primarily through email, to customers on status of orders and assist in problem solving to satisfy their order requirements. Communicate with internal and external sources to ensure effective order fulfilment

Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics Management /Supply Chain Management or similar

Outbound Graduate

Purpose of this role: The purpose of a Logistics graduate is to provide administrative and coordinative support across the department. The Graduate will be responsible for assisting the warehouse team in ensuring that products are registered and packed correctly for transportation or storage.

Duties: Responsible to support and measure logistics, planning, warehouse, stock control and risk performance. Extract and analyse information from key systems offering valuable insights and present recommendations and enhancements. Provide administrative support to the Warehouse team whilst shadowing and learning from them. Assist with the processing of orders on CAMS. Provide friendly and empathetic communication, primarily through email, to customers on status of orders and assist in problem solving to satisfy their order requirements. Communicate with internal and external sources to ensure effective order fulfilment.

Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics Management / Supply Chain Management or similar

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to take initiative and make decisions
• Good communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Continuous learning – a curious mind
• Good organisational skills