Maintenance Electrician (Night Shift)

The office park maintenance team in Durban Central needs a qualified electrician who can work neatly and sign off safe installations. You don't need to be the loudest person in the room, just the one others can count on.

This post is in Durban Central (KwaZulu-Natal). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Test installations and issue Certificates of Compliance where your registration allows
• Read electrical layouts and mark out point positions before chasing walls
• Complete job cards, material lists and test reports at the end of each job
• Install inverters, battery banks and changeover switches for backup power clients
• Run conduit, trunking and cable tray on new builds and renovations
• Quote small jobs for clients and explain the fault in plain language

• Your own basic hand tools and a calibrated multimeter
• Registered with the Department of Employment and Labour as an Installation Electrician or holding a Wireman's licence
• Clean criminal record, since you will work inside client homes
• Valid Code 08 driver's licence

• N3 electrical trade theory on top of your trade test
• Master Installation Electrician registration for three-phase CoCs
• PLC and motor control experience from a factory setting

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

• Put your registration category (IE, MIE or single-phase tester) and registration number right under your name on the CV.
• List two or three recent jobs with sizes, like a 60-point house rewire or a 10 kVA inverter install. It shows your level quickly.