Plumber

OaSIS employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a four- to five-year apprenticeship program ora combination of over five years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in plumbing is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
• Trade certification is compulsory in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba, British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified plumbers upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

Related fields and trades

• 15.09 · Mining and petroleum technologies/technicians — 74.6% of the published 2021 Census detailed-field distribution (rank 1)
• 01.10 · Food science and technology — 2.0% of the published 2021 Census detailed-field distribution (rank 2)
• 14.22 · Naval architecture and marine engineering — 1.2% of the published 2021 Census detailed-field distribution (rank 3)
• 14.36 · Manufacturing engineering — 1.0% of the published 2021 Census detailed-field distribution (rank 4)
• 14.28 · Textile sciences and engineering — 0.8% of the published 2021 Census detailed-field distribution (rank 5)
• trade-group-19 · Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters — reviewed Saskatchewan trade alignment

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