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Automatic door careers at MC Automations
Site-based roles installing, servicing and repairing automatic entrances across South Africa, plus the sales and support roles behind them. We train you on the equipment.
Automatic door careers at MC Automations are mostly hands-on: installing, commissioning, servicing and repairing automatic sliding, swing, revolving and hermetic doors in shopping centres, hospitals, offices, hotels, airports and factories. We do that work with our own people rather than sub-contractors, so the team you join is the team on site.
We are based at Laser Park in Roodepoort, Johannesburg, where our MC-125 sliding door operator and MCW-100 swing door operator are imported and assembled and where our spares are held. From there we work nationwide. Most of the technicians who join us have never worked on an automatic entrance before, and that is normal: we train on the equipment.
Who we are
MC Automations (Pty) Ltd has supplied, installed and serviced automatic entrances since 2017. We also service and repair automatic doors from other manufacturers, which means the people who work here see a far wider range of equipment than a single-brand installer would. That breadth is the part of automatic door careers here that most of our technicians say they value most.
We are a member of the South African Glass and Glazing Association (SAGGA), a trade association, and we take safety on site seriously because the doors we work on stay open to the public while we are there.
Current openings
These are the automatic door careers open right now. If nothing below fits, send your CV anyway: roles open with little notice and we keep applications on file.
Technical Sales Representative – Entrance Equipment
Location: Gauteng · Salary: R11,500 per month · Commission: 8% on target · Benefits: provident fund
What you will do
- Find and secure new customers in the region, and grow existing accounts through a relationship-based approach.
- Plan your own daily schedule of visits, cold calls and follow-ups.
- Understand what each client needs and recommend the entrance that suits it.
- Prepare clear written proposals and quotations, working with our technical team on sizing and specification.
- Develop and carry out a growth plan for specific market segments, and meet the annual sales target.
- Resolve customer problems and complaints quickly, with help from the rest of the business.
- Report weekly to the Sales Manager with call reports, work plans and territory analysis, and contribute to the quarterly board report.
- Keep up to date with our products, the market and what competitors are doing.
What you need
- Matric, as a minimum.
- At least three years of sales experience.
- A proven record of building and keeping strong customer relationships (references will be checked).
- Good communication skills.
- Knowledge of the construction industry is an advantage.
- A driver’s licence and your own reliable vehicle.
Apply for this role using the form below.
Automatic door careers: what the work actually is
This is site work. You travel, you work in buildings that stay open while you are in them, and you spend a lot of the day above head height in a doorway the public is still trying to use. It is not a workshop job and it is not a desk job. The work falls into four kinds:
- Planned maintenance. The backbone of the job: visiting entrances on a schedule, cleaning and checking tracks, belts, rollers, floor guides and sensors, and testing the safety devices. Our standard service interval is six months, more often on busy entrances.
- Breakdowns. The part that changes your day. A door that will not open, will not close or keeps reversing, usually with a building manager waiting.
- Installation. Fitting new operators, tracks, leaves and sensors, usually alongside glaziers, shopfitters and electricians.
- Commissioning. Setting speeds, hold-open times, modes and safety zones so the entrance suits how it is really used, then showing the building’s staff how it works.
Our guide to the automatic door technician explains what a good technician does on site, from the customer’s side.
Seven things we look for
Formal qualifications matter less in automatic door careers than most people expect. These are the things that actually predict whether someone will do well:
- Mechanical sense. You can see how something moves and where it binds.
- Basic electrical competence. You are comfortable with a multimeter and low-voltage control wiring.
- Diagnostic patience. You want to know why a fault happens, not just what to replace.
- Comfort working at height. Much of the work is on a ladder or platform above a doorway.
- Good with people. You can explain to a shop manager or nurse why a doorway is closed for twenty minutes.
- Reliability. You arrive when you said you would, because the building has planned around you.
- A driver’s licence. The work is on site across the country.
Diagnostic patience is the one worth expanding on. Many of the faults we attend are not broken parts at all. They are sensors that have drifted out of alignment, settings that were knocked, or a supply voltage sagging at the bottom of its range. Finding that takes a methodical head. See our automatic door troubleshooting centre for the kind of faults you would be chasing.
Training and progression
New technicians receive manufacturer training on our own operators and on the other brands’ operators we service, plus health and safety training. You work alongside experienced technicians before you attend a site alone.
The usual progression in automatic door careers here runs from assisting on planned maintenance, to attending routine services alone, to breakdown work, and finally to installation and commissioning. Commissioning comes last on purpose: setting an entrance up correctly for how it is used is a judgement skill, and it is learned by seeing a lot of entrances.
Working in a building that cannot close
This is what separates automatic door careers from most trades. An entrance usually cannot simply be shut while you work on it. On a retail site that often means working outside trading hours. In a hospital it means coordinating with the department, because closing a door can affect how patients and staff move. In an airport or office lobby it means working around security and access control.
It also means the public is always part of the job. Segregating the work area properly, keeping a route open and explaining calmly why a doorway is out of use are skills we value as much as technical ones.
Safety on site
Automatic doors move, they carry glass, and they are used by children, older people and people in wheelchairs. Safety is part of every visit in automatic door careers here, not paperwork after it. Every service includes testing the safety sensors and the power-failure behaviour, and every job starts with a safe, segregated work area. Our automatic door safety requirements guide and our compliance page explain the standards we work to; requirements for powered pedestrian doors are published by the South African Bureau of Standards.
Coming to automatic door careers from another trade
- From an electrical trade. The control side will feel familiar. The mechanical judgement, reading how a leaf runs and feeling where it binds, takes longer.
- From gate or garage door automation. The closest adjacent trade. The difference is that pedestrian entrances are used by the public all day, so safety sensing and commissioning carry far more weight.
- From glazing or shopfitting. You already understand frames, glass and fixing. The operator, sensors and settings are what you will learn.
- From sales or customer service. For sales and support roles, product knowledge is taught; the relationship skills are what we hire for.
Our people
We are all about people, and we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. Our team comes from all walks of life and brings a range of talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive working environment across all automatic door careers at MC Automations.
The equipment you would work on
The two operators we import and assemble locally are the MC-125 sliding door operator and the MCW-100 swing door operator, and their full specifications are published. Beyond those, we install and service revolving doors, telescopic sliding doors and hermetically sealed doors for clinical and controlled rooms, and we repair doors from other manufacturers.
How to apply
Send your CV using the form below, with a short note about what you have actually worked on: the equipment you have handled and the faults you have chased, not a job description. Tell us where you are based and whether you drive. We reply to every application, whether or not there is a role open at the time, and we keep CVs on file because automatic door careers here often open with little notice.
See our privacy policy for how we handle your application.
A day in automatic door careers
Most days in automatic door careers start early. A technician may begin at a shopping centre before it opens, move to a hospital or office for planned servicing, and finish with a breakdown call. On each site you sign in, follow the site rules, check the door safely, find the fault, fix it and write a short report for the client. It is practical, varied work, and no two buildings are quite the same.
Skills that transfer into automatic door careers
Many people come to automatic door careers from another trade. Electricians bring wiring and fault-finding skills. Aluminium and glass fitters understand frames, leaves and fixings. Technicians from access control, alarms or lifts already think in terms of sensors, controllers and safety circuits. What they all learn with us is how those skills come together in one entrance that the public uses all day.
Tools, reports and the way we work
You will use hand and power tools, a multimeter and a phone or tablet for service reports and photographs. Reports matter in automatic door careers, because the next technician, the building manager and sometimes an inspector will rely on them. We would rather you write down exactly what you found than guess.
Where automatic door careers can lead
Automatic door careers can grow in more than one direction. Technicians build experience across sliding, swing, telescopic, revolving and hermetic systems and can move on to leading installations and handovers. Others move into estimating, site surveys or client accounts, where knowing how a door behaves on site is exactly what makes a quotation accurate.
What we ask of everyone
- Arrive when you said you would, and tell the client if you cannot.
- Never bypass a safety device to make a door work.
- Be honest about what you found and what you did.
- Leave the site as clean as you found it.
- Treat every building user with respect, especially the elderly and people with disabilities who rely on the door.
These habits matter more in automatic door careers than any single technical skill, because they are what clients remember.
Applying for automatic door careers: what to send
Send a short CV, copies of any trade certificates, your driver’s licence and two references, using the details in the How to apply section above. Tell us which role you are interested in and where you are based. If you are new to automatic door careers but have a related trade, say so: we are interested in people who can learn, not only people who already know.
Learning on the job
New starters learn by working alongside experienced technicians before they take calls on their own. You will learn our own operators, the MC-125 sliding and MCW-100 swing door operators, as well as the common faults on other makes we service. Every visit is a lesson, and the reports you write help you see patterns quickly.
Working across the country
Our workshop and spares are at Laser Park in Roodepoort, and most work is in Gauteng. Planned work elsewhere in South Africa means some travel, which is arranged in advance. If you are interested in automatic door careers and live outside Gauteng, tell us where you are; it helps us plan.
Safety and wellbeing
Automatic door work involves ladders, live electrical circuits and public spaces. You will be given the right protective equipment, you will isolate power before working on an operator, and you will never work on a door while the public is walking through it. If something on site is unsafe, you are expected to stop and say so.
What clients expect from us
The people who call us are usually under pressure. A shop cannot trade with its front door jammed, and a clinic cannot turn patients away. In automatic door careers you learn to stay calm, explain clearly what is wrong and what happens next, and give an honest time when the door will be working again. Clients remember the technician who kept them informed far longer than they remember the fault. That is why we hire for attitude as well as skill, and why we invest time in people who want to stay and grow with the business rather than move from job to job.
Your first month
Your first weeks are about learning how we work: site sign-in, isolation and safety, how to read an operator’s settings, and how to write a clear report. You will spend most of that time with a senior technician on real calls. By the end of the month you should be able to carry out a routine service on our own operators under supervision, and you will know who to call when something is beyond you. Nobody is expected to know everything on day one in automatic door careers.
Automatic door careers: frequently asked
Do I need experience with automatic doors?
No. Almost nobody arrives knowing our equipment, and we train on it. What helps is mechanical sense, basic electrical competence and the patience to diagnose rather than replace.
Do I need a formal qualification?
It is not a barrier. Most of our technicians learned the trade on site. Demonstrable competence and reliability matter more than a certificate.
What training do you give?
Manufacturer training on our own operators and on the other brands’ operators we service, plus health and safety training, with time alongside experienced technicians before you attend alone.
Do I need a driving licence?
Effectively yes. The work is site-based across the country, not workshop-based.
Is the work only in Johannesburg?
We are based at Laser Park in Roodepoort, Johannesburg, and work nationwide, so travel is part of most roles.
What are the hours?
Variable. Entrances are often attended outside trading hours, so retail work in particular tends to happen when the shop is closed.
Do you keep applications on file?
Yes. Roles open with little notice, so it is worth applying even when nothing suitable is advertised.
In short
Automatic door careers at a glance
- Automatic door careers at MC Automations are site-based roles installing, servicing and repairing automatic entrances.
- Automatic door careers at MC Automations start with training on the equipment; experience is not required.
- Automatic door careers at MC Automations include manufacturer training on our own and other brands’ operators, plus health and safety.
- Automatic door careers at MC Automations progress from planned maintenance to breakdowns, installation and commissioning.
- Automatic door careers at MC Automations are based at Laser Park, Roodepoort, with work nationwide.