Paving Team Labourer – Experienced

You'll mix, carry, dig and clean up so the tradespeople on a townhouse construction site in Hammarsdale can keep building. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

This post is in Hammarsdale (KwaZulu-Natal). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Help offload deliveries of steel, timber and pipes
• Clear rubble and load it into skips
• Cut and lay paving bricks along string lines
• Set up barriers, cones and signs around open trenches
• Dig trenches and foundations to the depth the foreman marks
• Erect and strip shutters and simple scaffolding under supervision

• Prepared to travel between sites in the area
• Physically strong and fit for outdoor work in all weather
• A clean record is preferred for some government sites
• Grade 8 or higher
• You take safety rules seriously and wear full PPE
• 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
• 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.