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Construction electrician apprentice

  • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
  • Langue de travail: Anglais
  • Heures de travail: 32 to 40 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Expérience:

Education

  • College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • At heights
  • Confined spaces
  • Dangerous
  • Dusty

Work setting

  • Construction
  • Commercial
  • Residential
  • Installation
  • Troubleshooting/diagnostic

Tasks

  • Install electrical controls and panel boxes
  • Professionalism in customer service
  • Keep maintenance reports and documentation
  • Splice, join and connect wires
  • Test and measure voltage, loads, ground faults integrity of circuits
  • Troubleshoot and isolate faults
  • Connect power to audio and visual equipment
  • Install surface mount and/or overhead cables
  • Install power generation, stand-by power generation and power conditioning systems
  • Ground and bond electrical equipment, systems and structures including swimming pools and hot tubs
  • Renovate electrical systems in residential and commercial structures
  • Conduct preventive maintenance programs
  • Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Working at heights training
  • Occupational Health and Safety Certificate
  • Confined Space Entry Training
  • Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
  • Fall Arrest Protection Training Course

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Conventional electrical devices
  • Fibre optics
  • High voltage equipment
  • Motors and controls
  • Programmable logic controller (PLC)
  • Hand tools

Area of specialization

  • Fire alarm system
  • Communications system
  • Lighting system
  • Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Transportation/travel information

  • Willing to travel
  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Tight deadlines

Own tools/equipment

  • Tools
  • Steel-toed safety boots
  • Hard hat

Personal suitability

  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Organized
  • Team player

Screening questions

  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Employment terms options

  • Evening

Experience

  • 1 year to less than 2 years

Employment terms options

  • Morning
  • Night
  • Weekend

Health benefits

  • Health care plan

Financial benefits

  • Gasoline paid