Plumber Apprentice

**Work site environment**:

- Confined spaces
- Wet/damp

**Work setting**:

- Various locations
- Commercial
- Industrial

**Tasks**:

- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine layout of plumbing system, water supply network and waste and drainage systems
- Install, repair and maintain domestic, commercial or industrial plumbing fixtures and systems
- Cut opening in walls and floors to accommodate pipe and pipe fittings
- Join pipes using couplings, clamps, screws, bolts, cement or soldering, brazing and welding 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 shape and size

**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Working at heights training

**Apprenticeship training**:

- Pre-apprenticeship training
- Level one apprenticeship training
- Level two apprenticeship training
- Level three apprenticeship training
- Level four apprenticeship training
- Level five apprenticeship training

**Security and safety**:

- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Handling heavy loads

**Personal suitability**:

- Team player

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits

**Long term benefits**:

- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)