Tower Structure Maintainer - Trainee

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 and also 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

The role

CAKE has vacancies to join our hard-working team of Tower Structure Maintainers. The roles are demanding and exciting, as we climb, water blast, paint, torque bolts, install earth plates, replace steel members and undertake outage work on transmission towers, throughout the country.

Location: Based in Auckland with project work across New Zealand
Type: Full-time, permanent
Pay rate: $27.00 - $38.00 per hour depending on skills and experience
Minimum guaranteed hours: 40 hours weekly

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 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 

We are looking for hard working people that have a great attitude towards outdoors work, some flexibility with work location and travel is essential as we have to move where the allocated work is based throughout New Zealand.

CAKE will provide extensive on-the-job training and support individuals in obtaining a Level 4 NZQA qualification.

A driver’s license is required so you can drive company vehicles, as required.

You will be highly motivated, physically fit, enjoy working in teams and demonstrate a commitment to learning and growing. Attitude is the key thing here!

So if you think you fit the bill, are up for the challenge, and are drug and alcohol free, apply now!

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT REAPPLY. No agencies thank you.