Sector: Construction

A Refractory Mason:

• Builds and repairs heat and corrosion resistant structures and vessels such as furnaces, tanks, and containers

An Architectural Glass and Metal Technician handles, measures, cuts, prepares, fits, installs, replaces and repairs all types of glass and glass substitutes, typically in commercial, residential and transportation settings. An Architectural Glass and Metal Technician fabricates and installs curtain wall framing, aluminium storefront frames and entrances, doors and hardware, structural silicone glazing, skylights and sloped glazing. Specifically, an Architectural Glass and Metal Technician:

• lays out, measures, prepares, fabricates and installs/replaces architectural glass and metal components and air/vapour barriers in systems such as entranceways, windows, skylights and curtain walls
• works with and installs plastics, granite, aluminum panels and other similar materials used as glass substitutes, as well as films or laminates that improve the durability or safety of the glass
• works from mobile equipment, scaffolds and swing stages, sometimes at great heights, to manoeuvre glass panels that are lifted by cranes and other lifting equipment.

 Red Seal trade

A Heavy Equipment Operator — Excavator operates an excavator, its attachments and ground engaging equipment in various types of projects across multiple industries, such as road construction and maintenance, mining, quarrying, land clearing, forestry, logging, as well as gas and oil. He/she inspects, maintains, transports and operates this equipment and its attachments. Specifically, a Heavy Equipment Operator — Excavator:

• performs pre-operational inspections, safety and operational checks, preventative maintenance
• monitors equipment performance
• loads and unloads, transports, cleans, oils and refills equipment
• reads and interprets government legislation, site plans and manufacturers’ manuals (i.e. survey indicators)
• installs, operates and removes attachments (i.e. quick attach, buckets, rakes, levels, tillers, cutters, blades, grapples, pushers, vibrators and breakers)
• performs operations, such as excavating, grading, ramp building, stockpiling, backfilling and towing, ensuring maximum productivity
• checks grades, performs cut and fil operations, backfills trenches and excavations, creates slopes, creates mass excavations, clears land, strips surface materials, stockpiles and places materials, lifts materials, performs logging and surface mining operations, perform demolitions, bales snow.
• communicates through various techniques including hand signals

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A Reinforcing Rodworker reinforces a wide variety of concrete constructions including but not limited to buildings, landscape features, parking garages, caissons, highways, bridges, wind turbines, stadiums and towers by using reinforcing steel, composite materials, welded wire mesh, post-tensioning systems and any other concrete reinforcements. Specifically, a Reinforcing Rodworker:

• cuts and bends reinforcing materials according to design specifications and drawings
•  fabricates, pre-fabricates and installs reinforcing steel, composite materials, welded wire mesh, post-tensioning systems and any other concrete reinforcements.
• operates and maintains tools, aerial work platforms, forklifts and telehandlers
• prepares reinforcing and post-tensioning materials for hoisting
• rigs and hoists materials and equipment
• splices reinforcing steel by welding or installing mechanical splices
• installs, stresses and grouts post-tensioning systems

 Red Seal trade

A Heavy Equipment Operator — Tractor Loader Backhoe operates a tractor loader backhoe, its attachments and ground engaging equipment in various types of projects across multiple industries, such as road construction and maintenance, mining, quarrying, land clearing, forestry, logging, as well as gas and oil. Specifically, a Heavy Equipment Operator — Tractor Loader Backhoe:

• inspects, maintains, transports and operates this equipment and attachments
• performs pre-operational inspections, safety and operational checks and preventative maintenance
• monitors equipment performance, loads and unloads, transports and cleans, oils and refills equipment
• reads and interprets government legislation, site plans and manufacturers’ manuals (i.e. survey indicators)
• installs, operates and removes attachments (i.e. quick attach, buckets, bucket thumbs, quick couplers, splitters, grapples, teeth and adapters)
• performs operations such as excavating, grading, ramp building, stockpiling, backfilling and towing ensuring maximum productivity
• clears ice and snow, checks grades, performs cut and fil operations, backfills trenches and excavations, stockpiles and places materials, excavates trenches and ditches, loads trucks, lifts materials, performs clean-up operations, performs logging and surface mining operations, and perform demolitions.
• communicates through various techniques including hand signals

 Red Seal trade

A Concrete Pump Operator inspects, prepares, operates, controls, and cleans various concrete pumps including those found in vechicles and their various related attachments/ components. Concrete pumps may be truck mounted, stationary, trailer-mounted as well as tower concrete placing booms. Specifically, a Concrete Pump Operator:

• co-ordinates the placement of concrete through a pump at the work site
• operates the vehicle and loads and unloads concrete pumps and attachments
• sets up the concrete pumps and components and concrete delivery system, operates high pressure pumps and separate placing booms
• performs pre-operational inspections, safety and operational checks and preventative maintenance
• operates concrete pumps and related components
• monitors equipment performance and the movement of the concrete to the pour location
• resolves issues related to the movement of pumpable concrete
• maintains the equipment, cleans concrete pumps and components
• reads and interprets government legislation, site plans and manufacturers’ manuals (i.e. survey indicators)
• communicates through various techniques including hand signals

A Restoration Mason:

• Prepares mortars
• Cuts out and fills joints
• Repairs or resets bricks, stone and terra cotta blocks in ashlar, rubble and brickwork.
• Drills, grouts and pins fractured stones
• Resets copings
• Caries out washing and mechanical or chemical cleaning

An Ironworker — Generalist works with both structural/ornamental and reinforcing steel materials. An Ironworker — Generalist:

• Installs structural/ornamental steel components
• Installs precast concrete members and glued laminate timber products
• Places reinforcing steel in commercial, industrial, institutional and large residential buildings, towers, bridges and stadiums
• Erects pre-engineered buildings and ornamental ironwork

 Red Seal trade

A Drywall Finisher and Plasterer tapes and finishes wallboard (drywall), applies, maintains and restores plaster and similar materials on interior and exterior walls, ceilings and building partitions to make them more decorative, soundproof and firerated. A Drywall Finisher and Plasterer also textures concrete, applies coats of plaster to foundation materials, and installs, repairs and restores mouldings and ornaments. Specifically, a Drywall Finisher and Plasterer:

• tapes and finish wallboard (drywall)
• applies tape to fire rate and gas proof walls
• installs beads to protect corners
• fills joints and imperfections
• mixes and applies compound and sands to create a smooth surface
• textures concrete, prepared walls and ceilings
• applies coats of plaster to foundation materials
• wires mesh and installs ornaments

 Red Seal trade

A Native Residential Construction Worker:

• Works in all aspects of constructing a First Nation home