Trades
Industrial electrician
$39.07 to $45.12 hourly
Pay is below the local median for this work ($46.50 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
Job Bank's data for this posting doesn't list requirements. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- Full time, Permanent employment
Usually needed for this kind of work
- B.C. requires a certificate for this trade (Construction electrician). Registered apprentices can do the work while they train. SkilledTradesBC
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a four- or five-year industrial electrician apprenticeship program ora combination of over five years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in industrial electrical equipment is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
- Additional construction electrician certification may be required for industrial electricians when the employers are not owners of the industrial electrical equipment.
- Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified industrial electricians upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Industrial electricians (NOC 72201). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Read and interpret drawings, blueprints, schematics and electrical code specifications to determine layout of industrial electrical equipment installations
- Install, examine, replace or repair electrical wiring, receptacles, switch boxes, conduits, feeders, fibre-optic and coaxial cable assemblies, lighting fixtures and other electrical components
- Test electrical and electronic equipment and components for continuity, current, voltage and resistance
- Maintain, repair, install and test switchgear, transformers, switchboard meters, regulators and reactors
- Maintain, repair, test and install electrical motors, generators, alternators, industrial storage batteries and hydraulic and pneumatic electrical control systems
- Troubleshoot, maintain and repair industrial, electrical and electronic control systems and other related devices
About the employer
- Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region
Job Bank's search for this title and town usually shows this ad first.
From Job Bank.
