Dispatch Assistant (Building Materials)

Trucks come in heavy and leave loaded at this cement and brick yard in Vanderbijlpark, and you move the stock in between. It suits someone who likes knowing exactly what a good day's work looks like.

Home base is a cement and brick yard on the Vanderbijlpark side of Gauteng. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Guide trucks reversing into the bay with hand signals
• Sweep the bay and clear shrink-wrap after each loading
• Ride with the driver and carry goods into customers' premises
• Load trucks from the load sheet in drop order, last stop first
• Strap and secure loads so nothing shifts in transit
• Offload containers by hand, counting cartons as they come off

• Grade 9 or higher and able to read a delivery note
• Honest; you will be handling customer goods and cash-on-delivery slips
• No criminal record
• Willing to travel on routes that return late
• Friendly with customers at the door

• Speaking more than one local language for customer drops
• Past work as a driver's assistant
• A Code 8 or Code 10 licence (a route to becoming a driver)

• Meal allowance on long-route days
• Route-completion incentives in busy months
• Uniform and safety shoes provided

• If you are learning to drive, mention it. Depots like to grow assistants into drivers.
• Say what hours you can start. Loading bays often hire the person who can be there at 04:00 without fail.