Manufacturing and utilities
Electrical switchgear panel wirer
$24.00 to $32.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
Pay is below the B.C. median for this work ($29.70 an hour; Job Bank, 2024)
What the posting asks for
- Under 7 months' experience
- High school
- English
From the posting's details in Job Bank's open data. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- 40 hours a week
- Shifts: early mornings, mornings, days, flexible hours, overtime
- Full time, Permanent employment
- In person
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- College courses in electricity or electro-technology may be required.
- Several years of on-the-job training are usually provided.
- Set-up persons, inspectors and leadhands in this unit group may require experience as an assembler, fitter or wirer in the same company.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Assemblers, industrial electrical motors and transformers (NOC 94203). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Assemble and fit metal and other prefabricated parts to close tolerances according to blueprints to build heavy-duty electric motors or transformers
- Assemble stators or armatures for heavy-duty electric motors; compress steel laminations to build transformer cores; assemble windings into core using overhead cranes and make electrical connections using crimping, brazing and soldering equipment
- Assemble and fit electrical motor or transformer auxiliary equipment such as bushings, tap changes, conduit boxes, heating devices, protective equipment and cooling equipment
- Set up and adjust production machinery and equipment, such as coil winding machines, for the manufacture of heavy-duty electrical equipment
- May perform basic tests on electric motors.
About the employer
- Industry: Professional, scientific and technical services
- Region: Thompson–Okanagan Region
Job Bank's search for this title and town usually shows this ad first.
From Job Bank.
