Painter's Assistant (Renovations) – Permanent

You'll mix, carry, dig and clean up so the tradespeople on a low-cost housing development in Brits can keep building. This role rewards consistency more than flash.

This post is in Brits (North West). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Carry bricks, blocks and cement bags to where the bricklayers work
• Sign the daily safety talk register before work starts
• Help offload deliveries of steel, timber and pipes
• Pass tools and materials to the plumber or electrician as needed
• Clear rubble and load it into skips
• Erect and strip shutters and simple scaffolding under supervision

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

• Learn from artisans with a chance to move up to assistant
• Boots, hard hat and overalls issued on site
• Overtime on weekend pours and deadline days
• Paid weekly or fortnightly

• If a foreman can vouch for you, put their number on your CV. Site hiring runs on word of mouth.
• List past sites by name and what you did there, like "mixed concrete, laid kerbs". It proves you have done real site work.