Jobs at eThekwini Municipality

Reads electricity meters and records data using handheld devices. Performs safe electricity supplier disconnections and reconnections, reports suspected electricity misappropriation and meter or access issues, and maintains customer relations. Drives and cleans meter-reading vehicles, completes vehicle logs, accesses computer systems, and downloads vehicle monitoring information. Requires Grade 12, a valid motor vehicle license, computer literacy, and one year of relevant experience.

Manages eThekwini Municipality’s Graphic Design Service, including staff, design projects, corporate identity, branding guidance, operating procedures, archives, budgets, and project delivery. Plans section activities, assesses performance, oversees expenditure, and ensures effective service delivery across municipal directorates. Requires a Graphic Design diploma, driving license, and four years of relevant experience, including two years in a supervisory role.

Conducts employee training across the municipality, including implementing training needs, developing and updating manuals and learning materials, delivering classroom courses, customizing content, assessing learners, evaluating training effectiveness, maintaining safe training-center conditions, and providing post-course follow-up. The role requires collaboration with directorates and supports learning and development initiatives for employees at all levels.

Delivers training and assesses learners in electrical distribution and transmission construction, operations, and maintenance. The role requires competency and authorization to operate on medium- and potentially high-voltage networks, practical electrical reticulation experience, switching, isolation, testing, and earthing expertise. The officer also supports learner development, proficiency testing, and safe operation of electrical equipment while meeting physical fitness, driving, first aid, and overtime requirements.

Supervises staff and manages fruit ripening-room operations, including receiving, checking, issuing, and auditing produce. Monitors temperatures, investigates faults, reports equipment breakdowns, inspects produce quality, and ensures health and safety compliance. The role also manages security, resolves queries, supports market promotion, and provides relief for the Cold Store and Multipurpose Rooms Manager. Work is performed six days per week in a cold environment.

Supervises crematorium staff, resources, administration, and daily operations. Ensures effective planning, community and stakeholder communication, workplace health and safety, and compliance with cemetery management practices. The role may involve handling human remains, overtime, skills training, and driving responsibilities.

Controls depot operations, including asset movement, maintenance, cleaning, site security, fire and safety systems, stores management, staff supervision, vehicle activities, administration, and vacuum tanker services. Supports clerical and stores functions while maintaining service delivery and operational compliance.

Plans, designs, investigates, and estimates customer electrical connections; assesses low-voltage network capacity; coordinates with consultants, contractors, consumers, and communities; follows occupational health and safety requirements; trains junior staff; and compiles reports, graphs, and statistics.

Coordinates and delivers tourism projects, events, promotional initiatives, and destination-positioning activities. Manages promotional material distribution, service-provider registration, tourism databases, reporting, correspondence, and related administrative tasks. Ensures projects are completed within budget and timelines while supporting regional tourism objectives. Requires extensive travel within the region and occasional after-hours or weekend work.

Prepares and maintains grave sites and burial niches, conducts reburials and exhumations, maintains cemetery grounds and infrastructure, and operates and cares for small plant and equipment. Assists cemetery visitors and patrons while following workplace safety and service standards. The role may involve handling human remains, requires physical fitness, and includes overtime work.

Receives, codes, stores, and issues stock items according to control procedures. Maintains accurate stock positioning and documentation, checks fuel and diesel levels, communicates replenishment needs to suppliers, and processes requisition orders. The role supports inventory control and material handling operations at water and sanitation treatment works.

Supports municipal biodiversity and environmental management planning, including ecological assessments, conservation plans, environmental policies, development application input, stakeholder negotiations, research, data analysis, and project oversight. Manages consultants and supervises junior technical staff while contributing to strategic open-space and biodiversity initiatives.

Provides supervised networking and telecommunications support for a municipality. Installs and evaluates hardware and software, supports users and municipal units, and maintains network and telecommunications infrastructure. The role requires an ICT-related diploma, a valid motor vehicle driving license, strong communication and interpersonal skills, service orientation, resilience, and willingness to learn. Applicants with 12 months or more of prior work experience, internship, in-service, or WIL participation are excluded.

Provides reception and telephone services for the Office of the Executive Director, supports management and staff with office-related tasks, and completes related assignments.