Boilermaker

Boilermaker

Apprenticeship

AT A GLANCE

If you choose this career path, you build, erect, repair, test, and maintain all types of boilers, tanks, and pressure vessels. Boilermakers perform structural and plate work on dust, air, gas, steam, oil, water, and other liquid-tight pressure vessels. You fabricate, test, and repair heat exchangers, fired heaters, reactors, and other pressure vessels (air-tight and liquid-tight).

CAREER VIDEO(S)

RELATED CAREERS

Note: Additional training and/or certification may be required.
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WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work environments for construction careers can be located outdoors or indoors or both. Work hours may vary as well. Some positions are seasonal while others are all year round, but part-time. Other positions are project-based and may require you to work full-time until the project is complete. And, of course there are careers that have full-time hours all year round.

Below is a list of workplaces where you might find opportunities to gain apprenticeship hours and/or experience:

Source: Apprenticeship Manitoba Handbook and Manitoba Prospects

MINI SKILLS ASSESSMENT

If you answer YES to the questions below, then you should consider becoming a Boilermaker!

ESSENTIAL SKILLS PROFILES

The Government of Canada Job Bank has identified Nine Literacy and Essential Skills (Reading, Writing, Document Use, Numeracy, Computer Use, Thinking, Oral Communication, Working with Others, and Continuous Learning).

Below you will find links to the Essential Skills Profiles for this Occupation and/or related ones:

WAGES

Below you will find the annual salaries for apprentices and Journey Persons for a Boilermaker:

Minimum for Apprentices

Skills Booklet 2016, Skills Canada/Manitoba

$27,040

Average for Journey Persons

Skills Booklet 2016, Skills Canada/Manitoba

$54,600 – $76,440

For more information on apprenticeship wages, click here

Every year, the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) Construction Sector releases Minimum Wage Schedules for Manitoba. Below are the minimum wage rates for this career:

Minimum Wage Rate

January 1, 2017 or after

Journey Persons

$33.40

TRAINING

Note: To receive the most up-to-date information about satisfying apprenticeship level requirements, contact Apprenticeship Manitoba or visit https://www.gov.mb.ca/wd/apprenticeship/

Boilermaker

Program Length (Minimum Years)

3 years

Level Requirements

Required Hours for each level (L)

L1: 1, 600 hours L2: 1, 600 hours L3: 1, 600 hours

Technical Training/Year (weeks in class)

Y1: 6 weeks Y2: 6 weeks Y3: 6 weeks Y4: 6 weeks

Additional Licensing

No

Trades Qualification Requirements (minimum experience required)

Minimum years of experience required

(within last 10 years)

5 years

Minimum hours experience required

8, 000 hours

Practical Exam required

No

Compulsory Apprenticeship/Certificate of Qualifications required to work

No

Red Seal Trade available

Yes

ASSOCIATIONS

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