Glazier

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 44 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- or equivalent experience
- ** Work setting**:

- On-site customer service
- Commercial
- Institutional
- Residential
- Installation
- Shop fabrication
- ** Tasks**:

- Determine type of glass, frames and material required
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- Measure, mark and cut glass
- Position and secure panes in frame
- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Assemble and install prefabricated glass, mirrors or glass products
- Install door, window and other hardware
- Instruct apprentices
- Prepare shop drawings
- Repair glass doors and other glass structures
- Assemble, erect and dismantle scaffolding, rigging and hoisting equipment
- Supervise other workers
- Transport cases of glass
- Estimate costs and materials
- Operate CADD and other computer software systems
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Work from man-lift mobile equipment, cranes and other lifting equipment
- ** Type of glass/materials**:

- Acrylic plexiglass
- Float glass
- Mirrors
- Sealed units
- ** Frame fabrication and installation**:

- Curtain wall (stock length material)
- Curtain wall (prefabricated material)
- Spandrel panel installations
- Aluminum framing members
- Entranceways
- ** Glass cutting equipment and techniques**:

- Cutting wheels
- Self-lubricating cutters
- 118 degree wheel
- Circular cutters
- Computerized cutters
- Automatic finger pull machine
- Cut glass plate manually (straight cuts)
- Cut glass plate free-hand (curved cuts)
- Edge glass plates
- Etch glass
- Notch glass plates
- Laminate glass
- Paint glass
- Sandblast decal designs on glass
- Tint glass
- ** Installation specialization**:

- Skylights and slope glazed installations
- Curtain walls
- Sports installations (sports courts and boards)
- Stained glass installations
- Aluminum storefronts, barrel vaults, solariums, commercial window systems
- Glass baffles, smoke and sprinkler baffles
- Heat resistant ceramics
- Overhead automatic doors
- Shower doors and tub enclosures
- Suspended glazing system
- Vehicle windows, windshields and sunroofs
- X-ray glass
- Aquarium
- Display cases
- Walls and other interior areas (i.e. partitions)
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- ** Other benefits**:

- Other benefits
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- **Support for youths**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
- ** Support for Veterans**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Veterans
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
- **Support for Indigenous people**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers
- **Support for mature workers**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers
- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
- Provides dive