Construction Electrician

OaSIS employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a four- to five-year apprenticeship program is usually required.
• Trade certification for construction electricians is compulsory in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and available, but voluntary, in British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
• Trade certification for electricians (domestic and rural) is compulsory in Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario.
• Trade certification for electrical control (machine) builders is available, but voluntary, in Ontario.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified construction electricians upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

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