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Jacques Grobler

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Senior Costing Engineer at Roytec Global (Pty) Ltd
📍 Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa

Jacques is a Commercial & Cost Engineering Lead with over 15 years of experience in industrial sectors. He specializes in turning engineering complexity into commercial advantage by operating at the intersection of engineering, cost intelligence, and strategy. He holds a Bachelor of Technology from Tshwane University of Technology.

His career is defined by a consistent theme of finding leverage, such as automating a costing model to save 70-90% of manual man-hours.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Senior Costing Engineer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa
Personality Overview

How Jacques shows up

Upfront
Hard To Convince
ROI Conscious

They care equally about the product and its potential impact. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They respond well to confident salespeople.

Priorities

Topics Jacques cares about

AI-Augmented Workflows
He builds AI-augmented workflows as a key strategy to compress weeks of complex engineering work into a matter of hours.
Finding Commercial Leverage
His entire career philosophy centers on finding the highest-value move—be it in automation, contracts, or workflows—and then systemizing it.
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Career

Work history

12-2018
Senior Costing Engineer
Roytec Global (Pty) Ltd
8-2008 - 2-2018
Costing Engineer
John Thompson a Division of Actom (Pty) Ltd
6-2007 - 7-2008
Design Engineer
Tubecon Africa
9-2006 - 6-2007
Design Engineer
Poynting Antennas
3-2004 - 3-2006
Fitter and Turner
Brokrew Ventilation
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Media appearances

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Education
2001 - 2006
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Tshwane University of Technology
1996 - 2000
Matriculate
Bastion Hoërskool
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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