Job Description: Plumber
Minimum Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work setting:
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 the layout of plumbing systems, water supply networks, and waste and drainage systems
- Locate and mark positions for pipe connections, passage holes, and fixtures in walls and floors
- Cut openings in walls and floors to accommodate pipes and fittings
- Join pipes using couplings, clamps, screws, bolts, cement, 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
- Estimate costs and materials
- Measure, cut, thread, and bend pipes to required shapes and sizes
Supervision: 1 to 2 people
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye coordination
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability:
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
Experience:
- 1 year to less than 2 years
Support for newcomers and refugees:
- Participates in government or community programs supporting newcomers and refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs (housing, transportation, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Supports social and labour market integration (access to community resources, language and skills training)
- Recruits newcomers displaced by conflicts or natural disasters (e.g., Ukraine, Afghanistan)
- Supports foreign credential recognition
- Offers mentorship programs pairing newcomers and refugees with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to foster an inclusive work environment
Support for youths:
- Participates in programs supporting youth employment
- Offers on-the-job training, mentorship, coaching, and networking opportunities for youth
- Provides awareness training for creating a welcoming environment for youth