Overview
Languages
French
Education
- Other trades certificate or diploma
Experience
5 years or more
Work site environment
- Confined spaces
- Wet/damp
Work setting
- Various locations
- Commercial
- Residential
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine layout of plumbing system, water supply network and waste and drainage systems
- Install, repair and maintain domestic, commercial or industrial plumbing fixtures and systems
- Instruct apprentices
- 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
- Determine piping system requirements and pipe sizing
- Measure, cut, thread and bend pipes to required shape and size
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Plumber Trade Certification
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Overtime required
Own tools/equipment
- Tools
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Team player