Industrial Electrician (Factory Maintenance)

This is hands-on electrical work in Alberton: new installs, repairs and CoCs that pass the first time. People who do well here are steady, honest and not scared to ask when something is unclear.

Home base is a food processing plant on the Alberton side of Gauteng. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Install inverters, battery banks and changeover switches for backup power clients
• Complete job cards, material lists and test reports at the end of each job
• Supervise and teach an electrical assistant or apprentice on site
• Read electrical layouts and mark out point positions before chasing walls
• Run conduit, trunking and cable tray on new builds and renovations
• Replace faulty light fittings, plugs, geyser elements and thermostats
• Install and wire distribution boards, isolators and earth leakage units to SANS 10142-1

• Clean criminal record, since you will work inside client homes
• Comfortable working at heights on ladders and in roof spaces
• Valid Code 08 driver's licence
• Electrical trade test certificate (Section 13 or 26D) through a QCTO-accredited centre

• Working at Heights certificate still in date
• N3 electrical trade theory on top of your trade test

• Provident fund and group risk cover after probation
• Company-issued test instruments, calibrated every year
• Overtime paid at time-and-a-half on weekends

• Put your registration category (IE, MIE or single-phase tester) and registration number right under your name on the CV.
• Many applicants forget to attach the trade test certificate itself. Recruiters often skip CVs that only mention it.