Electrician's Assistant (House Wiring)

Hard outdoor work on a school building project in Brakpan, with a chance to learn a trade while you earn. This role rewards consistency more than flash.

Home base is a school building project on the Brakpan side of Gauteng. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Erect and strip shutters and simple scaffolding under supervision
• Help offload deliveries of steel, timber and pipes
• Dig trenches and foundations to the depth the foreman marks
• Pass tools and materials to the plumber or electrician as needed
• Carry bricks, blocks and cement bags to where the bricklayers work
• Set up barriers, cones and signs around open trenches
• Compact soil and layer bedding sand with a plate compactor

• Prepared to travel between sites in the area
• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• You take safety rules seriously and wear full PPE
• Grade 8 or higher
• A clean record is preferred for some government sites
• Able to follow instructions from a foreman or artisan

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

• Paid weekly or fortnightly
• Learn from artisans with a chance to move up to assistant
• 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.