Learn more about our journey to becoming Training specialists in the FMCG supply chain.
OUR History
- 2007
Open a Johannesburg office.
Open a Johannesburg office.
March 29, 2007 - 2009
Open a Durban office.
Open a Durban office.
August 29, 2009 - 2010
Acquire a 74% stake in Learning Cubed.
Acquire a 74% stake in Learning Cubed.
March 29, 2010 - 2012
Rene Hefer becomes a share holder and director.
Rene Hefer becomes a share holder and director.
September 29, 2012 - 2013
Acquire Cape Synergy and establish a Procurement & Logistics division.
Acquire Cape Synergy and establish a Procurement & Logistics division.
August 25, 2013 - 2016
Launch our first Mobile Technical Unit (MTU) for the training of First Line and Autonomous Maintenance.
Launch our first Mobile Technical Unit (MTU) for the training of First Line and Autonomous Maintenance.
March 25, 2016 - 2016
Become accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) as a Higher Education provider.
Become accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) as a Higher Education provider.
July 25, 2016 - 2018
Optimum Engineering Training is established and planning commences.
Optimum Engineering Training is established and planning commences.
February 28, 2018 - 2022
Optimum Engineering achieves Trade Test Centre status
Optimum Engineering achieves Trade Test Centre status
January 1, 2022 - 2024
Optimum Sustainability is established.
Optimum Sustainability is established.
July 23, 2024
EXCO
HAYLEY VAN BLERCK
EXECUTIVE INNOVATION & DESIGN
rOBIN FREESTONE
eXEcUTIVE OPERATIONS
STACEY JOSEPH
EXECUTIVE HUMAN RESOURCES
OPERATING COMPANIES
MIKE DALGETY
Md OPTIMUM ENGINEERING TRAINING
LINDA SCHOEMAN
MD
LEARNING CUBED
DAVE GOLDSCHMIDT
MD PROCUREMENT & LOGISTICS ACADEMY
SURAKSHA MAHARAJ
MD OPTIMUM SUSTAINABILITY
OUR VALUES
As with many of our key accounts, we are a value-driven organisation. In everything we do, we foster a supportive work environment that encourages excellence. Underpinning our success is an unconditional respect for colleagues and customers alike. For this reason, your dealings with Optimum will always be characterised by integrity.
With a deep awareness of the power of learning, we expect from all colleagues a passion for empowering others through knowledge and expertise. For us, the business of uplifting others is deeply rewarding.
We conduct business with integrity, honesty, loyalty and transparency
We respect and care for one another
We embrace and value diversity
We are committed to service excellence
We are passionate about what we do
OUR FOOTPRINT
We are proudly South African.
In 2006, we started small with an office in Cape Town. Steadily, we secured key accounts that demanded a wider footprint. By 2009, we were delivering training to all of South Africa’s nine provinces with additional offices in Johannesburg and Durban.
Since then, we have extended the delivery of our training into the rest of Africa with successful programmes being run in Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, and Lesotho.
TESTIMONIALS
Jow-hara Omarjee – Manager: Talent and Learning and Development
Over the last nine years, we’ve partnered with Optimum in delivering learnership programmes across all our sites. These programmes include a diagnostic assessment of all employees to test eligibility prior to commencement of a learnership.
Jow-hara Omarjee
Tanya Thiart – Performance Development Practitioner
I would easily recommend [Optimum] to any company wishing to apply learning across the manufacturing value chain. Their programmes are well laid out across the value chain and the way they are presented made it easy for me to establish a learning pathway for a learner regardless of what level he or she enters their pathway on.
Tanya Thiart
Naresh Nagin – Learning and Development Manager
Designed an online solution very successfully. The level of professionalism displayed by Optimum is second to none.
[Optimum] continuously identify ways to improve our programme and have produced innovative and successful solutions.
We would recommend Optimum to any Organisation that wants to facilitate large online practical and technical learning and development interventions.
Naresh Nagin