Gas Technician

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- or equivalent experience
**Work site environment**:

- Confined spaces
- Noisy
**Work setting**:

- Various locations
**Tasks**:

- Install gas heating units and their components
- Measure and mark reference points for installation of gas lines and equipment
- Install and maintain meters and regulators and gas lines between gas unit and gas meter
- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Repair and service gas appliances and related equipment
- Study drawings and specifications to determine the layout of the installation and materials required
- Test and adjust control mechanisms and check pipes and piping connections for gas leaks using gas detecting devices
- Estimate costs and materials
- Test and replace defective equipment or components
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Gas Fitter Trade Certification
- Gas Fitter Certificate - Level 2 or B
- Gas Fitter Certificate - Level 3 or C
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Judgement
- Team player
**Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
**Workplace information**:

- On the road job
**Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
**Support for youths**:

- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
**Support for Veterans**:

- Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)
**Support for Indigenous people**:

- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
**Supports for visible minorities**:

- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities