Skills
Protect Self and Others
- Identify, interpret and apply acts, codes, regulations and directives
- Select, wear, adjust use and maintain personal protective equipment and apparel
- Recognize and asses hazards and hazardous conditions
- Control hazards
- Assembles, erect use and dismantle platform and scaffolds
- Perform lock out and tagging procedures
- Operate and maintain tools and equipment
- Perform housekeeping
Communicate
- Demonstrate effective, interpersonal relations, recognizing human rights and equality
- Develop a work plan
- Give instructions to others
- Read and interpret documents and/or specifications
- Write job-related documents
- Practice personal hygiene
Read, Interpret, Create and Maintain Drawings and Specifications
- Identify drawings and specifications
- Read and interpret drawings and specifications
- Identify and select drawing equipment
- Create drawings and sketches
- Follow the drawing approval process
- Maintain documentation
Design Systems
- Identify type of system to be installed
- Complete a heat loss/gain calculation
- Determine system and installation requirements
- Determine equipment to be installed
- Select the fixtures to be installed
- Select the devices to be installed
- Layout and illustrate the system
- Submit design documentation for approval
Plan and Prepare for the Project
- Create material and labour take- off
- Complete system installation application and documentation
- Determine equipment and tools required to complete project
- Expedite job material
- Determine job scheduling
- Verify deliveries
- Store material equipment and tools
Install Pipe, Fitting Valves and Supports
- Identify piping materials
- Determine pipe fittings
- Identify control Valves
- Identify joining methods
- Identify pipe supports and hangers
- Creative a series of openings in the structure
- Install pipe supports and hangers
- Install pipe and fittings
- Join the pipe and fittings
Install Piping Systems
- Determine and identify piping systems to be installed
- Check pipe and fitting characteristics
- Identify the installation location of piping systems
- Install piping systems
- Label and/or tag piping systems
- Install fire stopping
Install Fixtures
- Identify the fixtures
- Check fixture characteristics
- Select the fixtures
- Assemble the fixtures and trim
- Identify the installation location of the fixtures
- Install fixture supports and hangers
- Install and connect the fixtures
- Install bathroom accessories
Install Equipment
- Identify equipment to be installed
- Check the equipment characteristics
- Select the equipment
- Assemble the equipment
- Identify the installation location of the equipment
- Install equipment supports and hangers
- Install and connect the equipment to piping systems
Install Devices
- Identify the devices
- Check the device characteristic
- Select the devices
- Assemble the devices
- Identify the installation locations
- Install device supports and hangers
- Install and connect the devices to equipment and piping systems
Test Systems
- Identify the systems to be tested
- Determine system set up required
- Arrange for test or a testing schedule
- Perform piping system procedures
- Confirm test results
Commission Activate Systems
- Identify piping systems requiring commissioning and/or activation
- Perform final systems inspection
- Commission the systems
- Instruct end users
Perform Rigging and Hoisting
- Read and interpret job specifications and shop drawings
- Inspect the job site
- Determine the equipment required
- Schedule the lift
- Inspect the rigging and hoisting equipment
- Connect the equipment to the rigging
- Secure the hoisting area
- Perform the lift and move the load
- Position and secure the load
- Disconnect the load from the rigging devices
- Communicate throughout the operation
- Remove and store rigging equipment
Service and Maintain Mechanical Systems
- Troubleshoot mechanical
- Diagnose the mechanical system problems
- Prepare service and/or maintenance proposals
- Communicate with clients representatives
- Obtain approvals from the client and others
- Perform the required service and/or maintenance
- Test the system
- Recommission the system
- Complete service documentation
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
