Paving Team Labourer

Hard outdoor work on a school building project in Boksburg, with a chance to learn a trade while you earn. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

You'll be based at a school building project in Boksburg. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps.

• Sign the daily safety talk register before work starts
• Mix concrete and mortar by hand or with a small mixer
• Set up barriers, cones and signs around open trenches
• Cut and lay paving bricks along string lines
• Clear rubble and load it into skips

• You take safety rules seriously and wear full PPE
• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• Able to follow instructions from a foreman or artisan
• Physically strong and fit for outdoor work in all weather
• Prepared to travel between sites in the area

• Registered on your ward or municipal job-seeker database
• Some experience with a jackhammer, grinder or plate compactor
• A working-at-heights or scaffolding ticket

• Learn from artisans with a chance to move up to assistant
• 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.