ARTISAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – APPRENTICESHIP 2025

Company: SAFCOL

Location: Timbadola sawmill, Louis Trichardt (Makhado)

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Applications are invited from unemployed youth interested in pursuing a career as an Artisan.
Suitable candidates will have the opportunity to enrol at a recognized Training Centre to develop
their skills over a three-year period. Workplace training will take place at our Timbadola sawmill near
Louis Trichardt (Makhado).

Apprenticeship programme consist of the following artisan trades:
• Fitter & Turner
• Millwright
• Electrical
• Diesel Mechanic (Motor trade)
• Boiler Making

Learners will receive a monthly stipend throughout the apprenticeship. In the final selection process,
preference will be given to Previously Disadvantaged Individuals, people with disabilities, females,
and youth from communities adjacent to our plantations and those with which we have signed social
compacts. Upon successful completion of the occupational knowledge, practical, and workplace
training, the Skills Development Act mandates that apprentices undergo a final summative
assessment (Trade Test) to become certified as qualified artisans.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Must be a South African citizen
• Must be an unemployed youth aged between 18 and 35
• Must have completed Grade 12 (not mandatory but recommended)
• Must hold a minimum of an N2 or Level 3 Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET)
certificate in the relevant trade theory

HOW TO APPLY:
Attach the following certified document copies with your application letter:
• Highest TVET certificate obtained with relevant trade theory
• Matric Certificate/ statement of results/ High school results
• Identity document
• Curriculum Vitae

Applications should be sent via to: apprenticeship@safcol.co.za
Queries to: Thinawanga – 083 675 1086

CLOSING DATE: 09 OCTOBER 2024

By submitting your CV to SAFCOL, you hereby give permission to circulate your
information to the interview panel members for this vacancy only. Your information will not
be used for any other position/purpose and will be disregarded after an offer has been
made.If you do not hear from us within a period of 30 days after the closing date, please
regard your application as unsuccessful.

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