Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Technician

When production stops at a mining workshop in Richards Bay, your crew moves in and cleans everything down. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Home base is a mining workshop on the Richards Bay side of KwaZulu-Natal.

• Foam, scrub and rinse walls, floors and conveyors with approved chemicals
• Strip down and wash production equipment after the last run
• Run a high-pressure washer on grease, oil and slurry build-up
• Test sanitiser strength with test strips and record the reading
• Store chemicals in the locked chemical store with safety data sheets
• Shampoo carpets and upholstery with an extraction machine
• Lock out machines before cleaning, as the safety file requires

• Physically strong for wet, heavy work
• Willing to work nights and weekends when plants shut down
• Respect for chemical safety and PPE
• Able to pass a medical fitness check for plant work
• Grade 10 or better; you must read chemical labels and safety data sheets
• Not scared of heights for window or rope crews

• Pest control registration under the fumigation rules
• A Code 8 licence to drive the crew bakkie
• Working-at-heights or IRATA rope access ticket

• Higher hourly rate than standard cleaning
• Night-shift and standby allowances
• Full PPE: waterproof suits, boots, goggles and respirators

• If you hold a heights or rope access ticket, attach it. It can double what you earn in this line of work.
• Say you are available for night and shutdown work. That is when most factory hygiene cleaning happens.