Bricklayer's Assistant

You'll mix, carry, dig and clean up so the tradespeople on a low-cost housing development in Kempton Park can keep building. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Home base is a low-cost housing development on the Kempton Park side of Gauteng. Start date: as soon as possible for the right person.

• Help offload deliveries of steel, timber and pipes
• Erect and strip shutters and simple scaffolding under supervision
• Sign the daily safety talk register before work starts
• Cut and lay paving bricks along string lines
• Clear rubble and load it into skips
• Clean tools, mixers and wheelbarrows at the end of each day

• Able to follow instructions from a foreman or artisan
• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• Grade 8 or higher
• Prepared to travel between sites in the area
• A clean record is preferred for some government sites
• Physically strong and fit for outdoor work in all weather

• A working-at-heights or scaffolding ticket
• Some experience with a jackhammer, grinder or plate compactor

• Paid weekly or fortnightly
• Learn from artisans with a chance to move up to assistant
• Overtime on weekend pours and deadline days
• Boots, hard hat and overalls issued on site

• List past sites by name and what you did there, like "mixed concrete, laid kerbs". It proves you have done real site work.
• If a foreman can vouch for you, put their number on your CV. Site hiring runs on word of mouth.