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Titre du poste
Industrial Electrician - Ladysmith
Description
Position : Industrial Electrician - Ladysmith
Our client, a well-established industrial manufacturing operation in Ladysmith, is seeking to appoint a qualified and experienced Industrial Electrician to support continuous plant operations and high-temperature production processes.
This role is suited to a technically strong, disciplined electrician who is comfortable working in a high-risk, high-heat industrial environment and who understands the pressures of manufacturing uptime, breakdown response, and standby support.
Responsibilities :
- Electrical maintenance, fault-finding, repair, and optimisation of plant equipment
- Electrical support to high-temperature furnaces, instrumentation, and control systems
- Medium-voltage switching and isolation (up to 11kV)
- PLC fault-finding and basic programming (Mitsubishi, Omron, Delta)
- Reading and interpreting electrical schematics and drawings
- Breakdown response, standby duties, and planned maintenance
- Supervisory support and weekly progress reporting
- Compliance with safety, quality, and plant procedures
Required profile for job ad : Industrial Electrician - Ladysmith
- Trade Tested Electrician
- N4 Electrical Qualification
- Wireman’s Licence (essential)
- Minimum 4-5 years post trade-test industrial experience
- High-temperature furnace instrumentation exposure
- 11kV switching experience
- Valid driver’s licence
- Strong fault-finding and attention to detail
- Traceable & contactable references
- Local residency or relocation required
Job criteria for job ad : Industrial Electrician - Ladysmith
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Job category :
Production, maintenance, quality - Sales - Services -
Industries :
Electricity, water, gas, nuclear, energy - Engineering, development studies - Industry, production, manufacturing and other - Metallurgy, steel industry - Paper, wood, rubber, plastic, glass, tobacco - Employment type : Permanent contract
- Region : Free State - Gauteng - KwaZulu-Natal - Mpumalanga
- City : Ladysmith
- Experience level : 2 to 5 years - 5 to 10 years
- Educational level : High school - Technical school - College - HND - Bachelor
- Number of Position(s) : 1
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Salary expectations :
R 27,000 - 35,000 -
Team management :
No
- Electrician
- Fault finding
- Electrical Repair
- plant equipment
- high temperature furnaces
- Instrumentation
- control systems
- medium voltage switching
- 11kV
- PLC
- mitsubishi
- OMRON
- DELTA
- BREAKDOWNS
- wireman's licence
- Safety
- Processes
- Interpreting
- Production
- Equipment
- Maintenance
- Sales
- Quality
- Production Processes
- Repair
- Manufacturing
- Support
- Electrical Maintenance
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Organisme employeur


Type de poste
Temps plein
Lieu du poste
Ladysmith, Afrique du Sud
Date de publication
16 février 2026
Valide jusqu’au
17 avril 2026











