Tower Structure Maintainer
Save this job and keep your search organized
Create a free account to save jobs, create alerts and return to this listing from your dashboard.
By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Privacy Policy.
About Cake Commercial Services
Cake Commercial Services is a leading protective coatings applicator who specialise in providing protective coatings for concrete and steel. We have numerous clients throughout New Zealand and pride ourselves on being a forward thinking and innovative company.
Cake is extremely focused on the key areas of Health, Safety, Quality, and Environment. We place a great deal of emphasis on developing our people through continual training and promoting our company values of:
- Encouraging personal growth
- Being safety leaders
- Being the best at what we do
- Showing mutual respect for everyone
- Enjoying our jobs and doing an honest day’s work
Please visit our website for further information http://www.cakegroup.co.nz
Description
CAKE has vacancies to join our hard-working team of Tower Structure Maintainers in Palmerston North.
The roles are physically demanding and exciting as we climb, waterblast, paint, torque bolts, install earth plates, replace steel members and undertake outage work on transmission towers, throughout the country.
Location: Based in Palmerston North with project work across New Zealand - this is a mandatory part of the job
Type: Full-time, permanent
Pay rate: $30.00 - $40.00 per hour depending on skills and experience
Minimum guaranteed hours: 40 hours weekly
Job description
The key tasks you will be involved with include:
- To complete maintenance on towers throughout the upper North Island region
- Follow all Health & Safety, Quality and Environmental systems and procedures
- Provide structural repairs to the towers
- Water wash and blast towers
- Abrasive blast towers
- Paint towers
- Replace bolts and steel members on towers
- Install Earth Plates
- Apply Earths to Isolated and Earthed Conductor
- Hold Outage Permits
- To follow all specifications
- To undertake training as required
Qualifications/experience
We need experienced people, so you must have AT LEAST 3 years of related work experience such as:
- undertaking tower maintenance, painting or linesman duties; or
- Industrial painting and including blasting
A qualification would be useful but is not required if you have sufficient experience.
CAKE will provide extensive on-the-job training, including for working at heights, and support individuals in gaining a Level 4 qualification.
You will have a current NZ Driver’s license or be readily able to obtain one.
You will be able to pass a pre-employment drug/alcohol screening and routine random testing undertaken.
You will be a good communicator and have the ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing in English. You are highly motivated, physically fit, enjoy working in teams and demonstrate a commitment to learning and growing. A positive attitude is the key thing here