LEARNERSHIPS

Top Jobs for Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers

The DHET advises youth to study for fields that offer the most job opportunities. If you’re a technical person, go for one of these jobs. It’s also easier to access funding for fields that already have shortages.

This list includes train and tanker drivers, Clothing, Textile and Leather Goods Production Operators, explosives and much more!

These 34 jobs are from the ‘Occupations in High Demand’ list

The term refers to job areas (occupations) that are growing quickly or job posts that are becoming more and more difficult to fill (known as shortages in the labour market).

PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
733206	1. Armoured Personnel Carrier Operator
734202	2. Backhoe Operator
718201	3. Boiler or Engine Operator
734203	4. Bulldozer Operator
715302	5. Clothing, Textile and Leather Goods Production Operator
735101	6. Deck Hand
734211	7. Dragline Operator
734214	8. Dump Truck Operator (Off-road)
734201	9. Earthmoving Plant Operator
721201	10. Electrical and Electronic Equipment
734204	11. Excavator Operator
734205	12. Grader Operator
735102	13. Jetty Operator
734206	14. Loader Operator
734209	15. Manufacturing Unit (MEMU) Operator
733208	16. Mobile Mining Equipment Operator
734207	17. Mulcher Operator
718304	18. Packaging Manufacturing Machine Setter
714201	19. Plastic Cable making Machine Operator
714202	20. Plastic Compounding and Reclamation Machine Operator
714203	21. Plastics Fabricator or Welder
714208	22. Plastics Manufacturing Machine Minder
714204	23. Plastics Production Machine Operator (General)
734212	24. Railway Track Master
714205	25. Reinforced Plastic and Composite Production Worker
714209	26. Reinforced Plastics and Composite
734213	27. Road Roller Operator
714206	28. Rotational Moulding Operator
734210	29. Scraper Operator
733204	30. Tanker Driver
715301	31. Trades Worker Sewing Machine Operator
731101	32. Train Driver
733201	33. Truck Driver (General)
734208	34. Tunnelling Machine Operator Mobile Explosives