Painter's Assistant (Renovations)

Hard outdoor work on a low-cost housing development in Kempton Park, with a chance to learn a trade while you earn. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

This post is in Kempton Park (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Carry bricks, blocks and cement bags to where the bricklayers work
• Erect and strip shutters and simple scaffolding under supervision
• Compact soil and layer bedding sand with a plate compactor
• Set up barriers, cones and signs around open trenches
• Cut and lay paving bricks along string lines
• Dig trenches and foundations to the depth the foreman marks

• Prepared to travel between sites in the area
• You take safety rules seriously and wear full PPE
• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• Grade 8 or higher
• Able to follow instructions from a foreman or artisan

• Some experience with a jackhammer, grinder or plate compactor
• Living near the site (many projects hire local labour)

• Paid weekly or fortnightly
• Overtime on weekend pours and deadline days
• Boots, hard hat and overalls issued on site

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