Skills
Protect Self and Others
- Wear, adjust and maintain safety clothing and equipment
- Identify hazards in the work area
- Perform work in accordance with safety legislations
- Check condition of ladders, scaffolding and related equipment
- Communicate with co-worker
- Inspect and maintain tools and equipment
- Apply basic first aid to self and coworkers
Use and Maintain Hand/Power Tools and Equipment
- Select, maintain and use hand tools
- Select, use and maintain power tools
- Select maintain and use tools and devices to measure
- Select, maintain and operate explosive actuated tools
Read, Interpret and Produce Drawings
- Read and interpret drawings and specifications
- Produce free- hand sketches
- Produce details and drawings
- Produce an interference drawing
- Read and interpret codes and regulations
- Take-off required materials from drawings
- Design system lay-out
Lay-out and Drafting
- Develop stretch out patterns
- Develop patterns employing the parallel line method
- Develop patterns employing the radial line method
- Develop patterns employing the triangulation
- Lay-out and use fitting patterns and templates
- Operate CAD/CAM equipment to produce shop drawings
Set-up and Operate Shop Equipment
- Set up and operate standard hand brakes
- Set up and operate standard foot shears
- Set up and operate power brakes
- Set up and operate power shears
- Set up and operate roll forming equipment
- Set up, adjust and operate rotary bench machines
- Set up and operate punching and notching equipment
- Set up and operate sitting equipment
- Set up and operate a drill press
- Set up and operate rotary cutting equipment
- Set up and operate spiral and flex forming equipment
- Set up and operate duct/coil line equipment
- Set up and operate rolling equipment
- Setup and operate ring rolling equipment
- Set up and operate abrasive cutting equipment
- Operate CAD/CAM equipment to produce production lists
- Load disk on shop area computer
- Set up and operate plasma or laser shape cutter
Weld and Cut
- Set up and operate oxy-fuel cutting equipment
- Set up and operate plasma arc cutting equipment
- Set up and operate oxy- fuel welding equipment
- Set up and operate resistance welding equipment
- Set up and operate metal inert gas welding equipment
- Set up and operate gas tungsten arc welding equipment
- Set up and operate carbon arc welding equipment
- Set up and operate plastic welding equipment
- Set up and operate resistance welding equipment
- Apply thermo- setting materials
- Perform soldering operations
- Perform hard soldering operations
Fabricate for Shop and Field
- Identify and select ferrous and non- ferrous ferrous material
- Calculate allowances for bends and seams
- Perform hammering, metal stretching and forming operations
- Perform pin spotting operations
- Apply sealants, install gaskets and duct sealers
- Join sheet metal using locks and seams
- Fabricate and install hardware
- Measure, cut and fit duct liners
- Perform final assembly of sheet metal work
- Conduct final inspection of sheet metal work
Erect, Remove and Operate Work Platforms
- Erect and use site fabricated work platforms
- Erect and use pre- manufactured scaffold
- Erect and operate swing stages
- Erect and operate motorized work platforms
Rig and Host
- Perform all rigging and hoisting operations in compliance with OHSA
- Tie off personnel, materials and equipment
- Demonstrate standard hand signals
- Check condition of hoisting equipment
- Select lifting and moving equipment
- Operate equipment to lift, move and place equipment and materials
Install Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Systems
- Select tools, materials and equipment
- Position sleeves, fire dampers and Inserts
- Determine work sequence
- Establish reference points and bench marks
- Plan and co- ordinate sequence of installation
- Locate and install residential equipment
- Locate and install equipment
- Assemble and erect duct work
- Install sound attenuators
- Plan and co- ordinate sequence of installation
- Install plastic duct systems
- Install louvers, bird and fly screens
- Install stacks, breeching and chimneys
- Locate and install grilles and diffusers
- Perform leak test operations
- Install alternative energy systems
- Install access flooring
- Install clean rooms
Fabricate and Install Industrial Environmental Systems and Specialized
- Fabricate and install dust collecting systems
- Fabricate and install material handling systems
- Fabricate and install exhaust hoods
- Fabricate and install ovens and spray booths
- Fabricate and install sound abatement material
- Fabricate and install lagging and cladding
- Fabricate and install chutes, spouting and hoppers
- Fabricate and install supplementary support structures.
- Fabricate and install catch pans
- Custom fabricate stainless steel equipment
- Fabricate and install metal shelving
- Fabricate and install laundry chutes
- Fabricate and install fresh air intake and exhaust systems
- Fabricate and install draft curtains
- Fabricate and install drying systems
Test, Adjust and Balance
- Determine location of equipment
- Complete system data sheets
- Check position of dampers
- Activate system equipment
- Measure fan velocity in HVAC systems
- Measure fan velocity for conveying various materials
- Locate pilot traverse stations
- Adjust dampers diffusers and grilles
- Adjust dampers, blast gates and branch ducts
- Check air quality and sound levels
- Take final reading
Install, Roofing and Architectural Metals
- Fabricate and install coping and flashings
- Fabricate and install cornice and decorative work
- Fabricate and install expansion joints
- Fabricate and install soakers and flashing
- Fabricate and install metal roofs.
- Install single or double walled siding
- Fabricate and install gutters and down spouts
- Fabricate and install skylights and roof entries
- Fabricate and install towers and minarets
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
