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Maintenance plumber

  • Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
  • Experience: Experience an asset

Work site environment

  • Confined spaces

Work setting

  • Correctional facility

Tasks

  • Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine layout of plumbing system, water supply network and waste and drainage systems
  • Prepare tenders and quotations
  • 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
  • Schedule personnel, tools and equipment
  • Test pipes for leaks using air and water pressure gauges
  • Determine piping system requirements and pipe sizing
  • Supervise other workers
  • Estimate costs and materials
  • Operate CADD and other computer software systems
  • Measure, cut, thread and bend pipes to required shape and size

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Plumber Trade Certification
  • First Aid Certificate

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Work under pressure

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Judgement
  • Team player

Employment terms options

  • Shift

Employment terms options

  • To be determined

Green job

  • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 hours per week