Hardware Store Yard Assistant

Start in retail here: a hardware and building store in Vanderbijlpark trains packers who show up and work neat. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Location: Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Put up price tickets and promotion shelf strips
• Pack shelves from the back, rotating older stock to the front (first in, first out)
• Weigh, bag and price fruit and vegetables
• Help customers find products and carry heavy items to cars
• Build promotional displays at the ends of aisles

• Available for weekends, month-end and public holidays
• Polite with customers and happy to help
• Basic reading and maths for price checks
• Honest, since stock losses are checked closely
• Grade 10 or matric
• Able to stand and lift cases all shift

• Being 18 or older for liquor store roles
• Previous shelf packing or merchandising work

• Chance to move into till or department roles
• Travel allowance on merchandising routes
• Paid training in store procedures
• Staff discount on groceries

• Stores fill weekend and night-fill slots first, so write "available weekends and nights" in your CV summary line.
• If you have ever sold anything, even at a school tuck shop or a family stall, list it. It shows you are comfortable with customers.