Paving Team Labourer

You'll mix, carry, dig and clean up so the tradespeople on a shopping centre renovation in Durban Central can keep building. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

The work is in Durban Central, KwaZulu-Natal, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. There's a probation period of three months before the contract is confirmed.

• 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
• Cut and lay paving bricks along string lines
• Clear rubble and load it into skips

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

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

• Government-funded projects often reserve jobs for people from the local ward. Bring proof of address and ask the site office about the local labour desk.
• List past sites by name and what you did there, like "mixed concrete, laid kerbs". It proves you have done real site work.