Hyundai Automotive Motus Corporation South Africa invites unemployed youths to apply for the 2026 YES Learner Programme
Placement:
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Best Before: 31 March 2026
Division: Hyundai SA
Minimum experience: Not Applicable
Company primary industry: Automotive
Job functional area: Administrative
Fixed Term: 12 Months
Job Description
This is your opportunity to gain meaningful workplace experience within a dynamic automotive retail and corporate environment. If you are ambitious, eager to learn, and ready to build your future, this opportunity is for you.
Hyundai Motor’s global steady sellers such as the Azera, Sonata, Elantra, Tucson, and Santa Fe models, along with its regionally tailored models optimized for different markets such as China, Europe, Russia etc., have been receiving extremely positive reviews from its customers. Refusing to rest on its laurels and to respond quickly to the rapidly changing auto industry and take the lead in the future mobility market.
Programme Overview
We strive to reinvent ourselves as not just an automobile brand but a global mobility brand and life partner for our customers that provides a new driving and mobility experience.
Successful candidates will receive:
- 12 months structured workplace experience
- Exposure to a professional corporate environment
- Mentorship and guided skills development
- Practical, hands-on industry training
- Valuable work experience to strengthen your CV
Opportunities may be available in:
- Administration
- Sales & Marketing
- Finance
- Technical / Workshop
- Parts & Logistics
- Human Resources
To qualify, applicants must:
- Be a South African citizen
- Be between 18 – 34 years old
- Be currently unemployed
- Have Grade 12 / Matric (additional qualifications advantageous)
- Have a clear criminal record
- Not have previously participated in a YES Programme
Why Join Hyundai?
At Hyundai, we are committed to developing future talent and creating meaningful opportunities for young South Africans. This programme is more than work experience; it’s a steppingstone toward building a sustainable and successful career.
Hyundai Motor Company has served as the trailblazer of Korea’s automobile industry since rolling out its Pony, developed with its own exclusive technology. Hyundai Motor Company has risen as a globally recognized automobile manufacturer that exports its branded vehicles to over 200 countries. It is equipped with production bases all around the world.
It is expanding the automobile market through its success in mass-producing hydrogen-powered vehicles for the first time in the world and launching GENESIS, a high-end brand, while propelling the future mobility industry forward based on its leadership in autonomous driving and connectivity technologies. It seeks to find better solutions for humanity by achieving technological innovation under the aim of “Progress for Humanity”.
Hyundai Motor has secured world class eco-friendly technologies in preparation for the shift to electrified vehicles. In 2013 it began mass production of a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), the Tucson (ix35), for the first time in the world, proving its technological expertise in this field. In 2018, the company launched NEXO FCEV, a fuel cell electric car that can run over 580 kilometers on a single charge.
Hyundai Motor has also proven itself to be a leader in the area of autonomous driving, with its Autonomous Ioniq Electric vehicle achieving a level 4 standard by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) after completing a self driving performance in real road conditions in January 2017. Hyundai Motor will do its utmost to secure competitiveness in future mobility business areas through active investment and collaboration with global information and communications (ICT) leaders and related research institutes.
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