Dispatch Assistant (Building Materials)

You'll load and offload trucks at a parcel sorting hub in Mbombela so every delivery goes out full and correct. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Home base is a parcel sorting hub on the Mbombela side of Mpumalanga.

• Check goods received against the delivery note and flag shorts
• Stack returns and empties neatly for the next count
• Ride with the driver and carry goods into customers' premises
• Guide trucks reversing into the bay with hand signals
• Offload containers by hand, counting cartons as they come off
• Sweep the bay and clear shrink-wrap after each loading
• Get proof-of-delivery notes signed and stamped at each drop

• No criminal record
• Comfortable starting from 04:00 or working late loading shifts
• Willing to travel on routes that return late
• Honest; you will be handling customer goods and cash-on-delivery slips
• Grade 9 or higher and able to read a delivery note
• Able to lift and carry heavy items all day

• Speaking more than one local language for customer drops
• A Code 8 or Code 10 licence (a route to becoming a driver)

• Uniform and safety shoes provided
• Help to get your own licence through the company later
• Meal allowance on long-route days
• Route-completion incentives in busy months

• Keep your CV to one page with your phone number big and clear. Depot managers phone, they seldom email.
• If you are learning to drive, mention it. Depots like to grow assistants into drivers.