Plumber's Helper (Residential)

Hard outdoor work on a road rehabilitation project in Lephalale, with a chance to learn a trade while you earn. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

This post is in Lephalale (Limpopo). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Carry bricks, blocks and cement bags to where the bricklayers work
• Sign the daily safety talk register before work starts
• Clean tools, mixers and wheelbarrows at the end of each day
• Pass tools and materials to the plumber or electrician as needed
• Compact soil and layer bedding sand with a plate compactor

• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• Physically strong and fit for outdoor work in all weather
• You take safety rules seriously and wear full PPE
• Grade 8 or higher

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

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

• 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.