Paving Team Labourer

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

This post is Mthatha-based, with most of your time spent at a road rehabilitation project. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Clean tools, mixers and wheelbarrows at the end of each day
• Clear rubble and load it into skips
• Help offload deliveries of steel, timber and pipes
• 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
• Pass tools and materials to the plumber or electrician as needed

• A clean record is preferred for some government sites
• Physically strong and fit for outdoor work in all weather
• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• Prepared to travel between sites in the area
• Grade 8 or higher

• Registered on your ward or municipal job-seeker database
• Some experience with a jackhammer, grinder or plate compactor
• Living near the site (many projects hire local labour)

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

• 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.