Qualified Electrician (Residential Installations) – Permanent

The shopfitting and retail fit-out firm in Johannesburg CBD needs a qualified electrician who can work neatly and sign off safe installations. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

The work is in Johannesburg CBD, Gauteng, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. Overtime comes up in peak season and is paid.

• Read electrical layouts and mark out point positions before chasing walls
• Terminate armoured cable and fit glands on three-phase motor supplies
• Install and wire distribution boards, isolators and earth leakage units to SANS 10142-1
• Test installations and issue Certificates of Compliance where your registration allows
• Complete job cards, material lists and test reports at the end of each job

• Registered with the Department of Employment and Labour as an Installation Electrician or holding a Wireman's licence
• Valid Code 08 driver's licence
• Clean criminal record, since you will work inside client homes
• At least 3 years working as a qualified electrician after your trade test

• PLC and motor control experience from a factory setting
• N3 electrical trade theory on top of your trade test

• Standby allowance when you are on the after-hours roster
• Overtime paid at time-and-a-half on weekends
• Company-issued test instruments, calibrated every year

• Put your registration category (IE, MIE or single-phase tester) and registration number right under your name on the CV.
• Many applicants forget to attach the trade test certificate itself. Recruiters often skip CVs that only mention it.