Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Registered Apprenticeship certificate
- or equivalent experience
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
Work setting
- Machinery installation
- Various locations
- Maintenance
- Repair
- Machine set-up
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Detect and troubleshoot irregularities and malfunctions
- Repair or replace defective machinery parts
- Fabricate parts required during overhaul, maintenance or set-up
- Estimate costs and materials
- Perform routine maintenance work on machinery
- Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications
- Operate machining tools to fabricate parts
- Assembling machinery and equipment (prior to installation)
- Installing machinery and equipment
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Electrical and electronic controls
- Lathes and other machining tools
- Power tools
- Welding equipment
- Hand tools
Area of specialization
- Start-up and testing
- Shutdown operations
- Renovating and restoring
- Rigging and handling
- Troubleshooting
- Wiring
- Welding
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)