Cat equipment dealer across Southern Africa with regional expansion into Iberia and Russia
Barloworld Equipment is a Caterpillar earthmoving equipment dealer operating across 10+ countries in Southern Africa, Iberia, and Russia. The tech stack reflects a traditional manufacturing-distribution hybrid: SAP for enterprise operations, Salesforce for sales pipeline, CAD/Solidworks for technical specs, and telematics tooling for fleet tracking. Active hiring across engineering, ops, and sales—with mid and senior roles evenly split—suggests both operational scaling and leadership backfill, while the project list (vulnerability assessments, parts forecasting, fleet rollouts, telematics performance) points to ongoing digitization of service delivery and supply-chain visibility.
Barloworld Equipment is the primary Caterpillar dealer for earthmoving machinery across Southern Africa, with operations spanning South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, plus joint ventures in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company also owns the primary Cat dealership in Iberia and recently completed acquisition of its joint-venture partner in Russia's eastern regions. Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Kempton Park, Gauteng, the company employs 5,001–10,000 people and combines equipment sales, service, parts, and rental operations across a fragmented, multi-country footprint.
Core stack includes SAP (enterprise resource planning), Salesforce (CRM), Microsoft Office suite, AutoCAD and Solidworks (design/technical specs), CCTV and CNC systems, and telematics platforms for fleet performance tracking.
Primarily South Africa and the United States, based on active recruiting countries.
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