Plumber's Helper (Residential) – Permanent

Hard outdoor work on a low-cost housing development in White River, 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.

Home base is a low-cost housing development on the White River side of Mpumalanga.

• Help offload deliveries of steel, timber and pipes
• Clear rubble and load it into skips
• Clean tools, mixers and wheelbarrows at the end of each day
• Carry bricks, blocks and cement bags to where the bricklayers work
• Erect and strip shutters and simple scaffolding under supervision
• Sign the daily safety talk register before work starts

• Prepared to travel between sites in the area
• Physically strong and fit for outdoor work in all weather
• Willing to start early, often at 06:30
• You take safety rules seriously and wear full PPE
• A clean record is preferred for some government sites

• Some experience with a jackhammer, grinder or plate compactor
• Previous site work you can show with a reference

• 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
• 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.