About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.
Tasks
- Install domestic, commercial or industrial plumbing fixtures and systems.
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine layout of plumbing system, water supply network and waste and drainage systems.
- Locate and mark positions for pipe connections, passage holes and fixtures in walls and floors.
- Cut opening in walls and floors to accommodate pipe and pipe fittings.
- Join pipes using couplings, clamps, screws, bolts, cement or soldering, brazing and welding equipment.
- Test pipes for leaks using air and water pressure gauges.
- Determine piping system requirements and pipe sizing.
- Estimate costs and materials.
- Measure, cut, thread and bend pipes to required shape and size.
- Transportation/travel information: Vehicle supplied by employer.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Physically demanding.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Work under pressure.
- Personal suitability: Accurate.
- Client focus.
- Judgement.
- Team player.
- Screening questions: Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Are you currently a student?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Health benefits: Health care plan.
- Other benefits: Transportation provided by employer.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.
- Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers . Supports for visible minorities: Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.