Maintenance Electrician (Night Shift) – Experienced

Got your trade test and a steady hand on a DB board? This food processing plant in Pietermaritzburg needs you on the tools. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is Pietermaritzburg-based, with most of your time spent at a food processing plant.

• 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
• Supervise and teach an electrical assistant or apprentice on site
• Fault-find tripping circuits with a multimeter, insulation tester and loop tester
• Install inverters, battery banks and changeover switches for backup power clients

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

• Solar PV installation training and experience with hybrid inverters
• Master Installation Electrician registration for three-phase CoCs
• PLC and motor control experience from a factory setting

• Company bakkie for call-outs and travel between sites
• Overtime paid at time-and-a-half on weekends
• Company-issued test instruments, calibrated every year

• 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.