Try a Trade Program Hire

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people like you to help us. A career at BC Hydro is meaningful and provides you the opportunity to be part of a talented,
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**Try A Trade Program Hire**

Number of positions: 5 Job Location: Edmonds 10

Employment type: Temporary Region: Various

Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Field

Hourly Rate: $ 24.88

**What you'll do**
- Try A Trade Program
technical careers. Our goal to is to continue to strengthen our Indigenous employee workforce by creating meaningful
opportunities that will help get you started.

We have a 16 week paid job shadow program for Indigenous people who have a strong focus towards a trades or technical
career at BC Hydro and want to know how to get started.

During week one, participants will focus on onboarding and mandatory safety training at the Trades Training Centre in
Surrey. From weeks two to fifteen, participants will complete one or two job-shadow rotations with our operations crews to
be in close proximity to the available sites where job-shadow placements will be made, such as: Hudson's Hope / GM
Shrum Generating Station, Prince George, Revelstoke Dam and Mica Creek (townsite), Vernon, Lower Mainland / Surrey.

A Indigenous Try-a-Trade Program participant will:

- Make Safety your number one priority at all times.
- Learn how to model BC Hydro’s Values.
- Read and prepare reports including daily activity logs.
- Perform simple non-safety-sensitive tasks that will be assigned to you and monitored by a qualified Manager or Supervisor

in a trades or technical environment.
- Obtain exposure in BC Hydro Trades and Technical occupations such as: Carpenters and General Trades,

Communications, Protection & Control (CPC) Technicians, Electricians, Interchange Plant Operators, Machine Operators,
Mechanics, Millwrights, Truck and Transportation Mechanics
- Under the guidance of BC Hydro mentors, learn how one of BC Hydro’s trades pre-apprentice, apprenticeship or technical

training programs can start you on your career journey with us.
- Be prepared to learn about the benefits of working within the IBEW 258 (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers)

Union.

**What you bring**
- Has a High School Diploma with English 12, Math* 11/12 and Physics 11/12. Acceptable Math courses include*: Pre
- Calculus, Principles, Applications/Foundations, Apprenticeship and Workplace Trades, or
- May have a combination of education and/or work experience, in a trades or technical-related field, and be
- Physically capable of performing non-safety-sensitive work that may include tasks of a physically demanding nature from

time to time.
**What we offer**
- PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Week One:
Participants will work in indoor and outdoor classroom settings with computers.

work on a computer
live independently, if required, for the job placements
learn and understand related safety regulations
be professional with verbal and written communication skills and good with people.

Weeks two to 16:
Spend time exposed to all weather conditions
Spend the majority of the day on feet on rough terrain
Work at different sites daily

apprenticeship program are encouraged to apply

License in order to commute to and from work each day.

for the entire duration of the program.
- For the mandatory safety training in Surrey in weeks one, travel and accommodation costs will be covered and arranged

by BC Hydro only for those participants who live outside the Lower Mainland.

of our Pre-Apprenticeship or Apprenticeship Programs (i.e. High School Graduation, GED or Adult Dogwood with: English
12, Math 12 and Physics 12), will be considered.

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- The Try A Trade program is governed by the BC Hydro / IBEW 258 Collective Agreement 258 MOU #20

Location: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada V3W 3G2
Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V3N 4X8

**What else you should know**

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- The following documents must be uploaded to your BC Hydro Careers Profile before the closing date:

- Declaration of Indigenous Affiliation (First Nation, Inuit or Metis community)
- Cover Letter AND Resume
- Copy of unofficial transcripts (High School/GED/upgrading)
- Copy of Safety or other training certificates
- Copy of Apprenticeship transcripts or Trade Qualification (if applicable)

**Date Posted**:2024-12-16 **Closing Date**:2025-01-19

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