Plumber

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: French
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Registered Apprenticeship certificate
  • Experience: 5 years or more

Work setting

  • Various locations
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
  • Institutional
  • Residential
  • Construction site

Tasks

  • Install domestic, commercial or industrial plumbing fixtures and systems
  • Repair 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
  • 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
  • Test pipes for leaks using air and water pressure gauges
  • Determine piping system requirements and pipe sizing
  • Measure, cut, thread and bend pipes to required shape and size

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Plumber Trade Certification

Transportation/travel information

  • Own transportation
  • Vehicle supplied by employer
  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Handling heavy loads

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Judgement
  • Team player

Screening questions

  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

Green job

  • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes

Workplace information

  • On the road job

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Life insurance

Other benefits

  • On-site recreation and activities
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