Qualified Electrician (Residential Installations)

You'll wire, fault-find and certify installations for the food processing plant in Springs. You'll work with a small crew, so being easy to work with matters as much as skill.

You'll be based at a food processing plant in Springs. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Test installations and issue Certificates of Compliance where your registration allows
• Lock out and tag out circuits before any work on live equipment
• Install and wire distribution boards, isolators and earth leakage units to SANS 10142-1
• Supervise and teach an electrical assistant or apprentice on site
• Terminate armoured cable and fit glands on three-phase motor supplies
• Read electrical layouts and mark out point positions before chasing walls
• Install inverters, battery banks and changeover switches for backup power clients

• Electrical trade test certificate (Section 13 or 26D) through a QCTO-accredited centre
• Registered with the Department of Employment and Labour as an Installation Electrician or holding a Wireman's licence
• Valid Code 08 driver's licence
• At least 3 years working as a qualified electrician after your trade test
• Your own basic hand tools and a calibrated multimeter
• Clean criminal record, since you will work inside client homes

• Overtime paid at time-and-a-half on weekends
• Company-issued test instruments, calibrated every year
• Provident fund and group risk cover after probation
• Company bakkie for call-outs and travel between sites

• Put your registration category (IE, MIE or single-phase tester) and registration number right under your name on the CV.
• If you have issued CoCs before, say how many and for what type of property.