Site Foreman (Residential Housing) – Immediate Start

You'll run the site day to day for the retail and commercial builder in Umhlanga, from setting out to handover. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Home base is a retail and commercial builder on the Umhlanga side of KwaZulu-Natal. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Check reinforcing, shuttering and cover blocks before calling for a pour inspection
• Run toolbox talks and support the safety officer on Construction Regulations compliance
• Order concrete, bricks and steel on time so gangs never stand idle
• Plan the week's work from the construction programme and brief the gangs each morning
• Draw up snag lists and close them out before practical completion
• Check workmanship against drawings, specifications and SANS 10400

• Working knowledge of the Construction Regulations 2014 under the OHS Act
• Good with MS Project or a similar programme tool
• At least 5 years on building or civil sites, 2 of them in a supervisory post
• Code 08 licence and your own reliable transport between sites

• Concrete technology short course
• Worked on CIDB grade 6 or higher projects
• Surveying skills with a total station

• Site accommodation on out-of-town projects
• Project completion bonus linked to handover date
• Cellphone and laptop supplied

• Add a short project table to your CV: project name, type, rand value and your role. Contractors hire on project size.
• A common mistake is listing only company names. Say what you built, for example "32 walk-up flats, 3 storeys".