Job Description

• You as a communications trainee will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Modderfontein, Gauteng, South Africa.
• You will be independently in charge of projects with predefined goals in your own area of responsibility.
• Your will have an assigned areas such as product, employee, online communication for both internal and external stakeholders.
• You will have an annual contract.
• During their practice-oriented training, the communications trainee gets to know Hitachi Energy in various ways of doing business.
• The training program prepares interns for a career as a press spokesperson, event coordinator, public relations and communications specialist.

Your responsibilities:

• Supporting those responsible in all areas of communication.
• Writing people stories for Viva engage and Web content
• Event coordinating and liaison with the various business unit managers and colleagues.
• Digital communication activities such as web uploads
• Designing and creating content for social media.
• Being accountable for your project-related range of tasks, in which your conceptual and strategic thinking
• Preparing reports.
• Managing Storeroom.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background            

• A bachelor’s degree in PR Management or Communications.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required
• Written and Verbal communication skills
• Graphic design skills