Apprentice Glazier

Work site environment

• At heights
• Cold/refrigerated
• Dangerous
• Hot
• Outdoors

Work setting

• Repair
• Commercial
• Institutional
• Retail service and repair firm
• Installation
• Shop fabrication

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Assemble and install prefabricated glass, mirrors or glass products
• Install door, window and other hardware
• Repair glass doors and other glass structures
• Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Working at heights training
• First Aid Certificate

Apprenticeship training

• Pre-apprenticeship training
• Level one apprenticeship training

Experience and specialization

Type of glass/materials

• Float glass
• Mirrors
• Sealed units

Frame fabrication and installation

• Curtain wall (stock length material)
• Curtain wall (prefabricated material)

Installation specialization

• Skylights and slope glazed installations
• Curtain walls
• Aluminum storefronts, barrel vaults, solariums, commercial window systems
• Walls and other interior areas (i.e. partitions)

Additional information

Security and safety

• Bondable
• Criminal record check

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Physically demanding
• Handling heavy loads
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

• Tools
• Steel-toed safety boots

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan
• Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

• Bonus
• Group insurance benefits
• Life insurance
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Long term benefits

• Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

• Learning/training paid by employer
• Parking available