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Construction Boilermaker Apprenticeship

Your Career

Petro-Canada's Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel - a ship-shaped production platform - is one of the largest ever built. It contains 14 oil tanks and can store 960,000 barrels of oil from Newfoundland's Terra Nova oil fields. Then again, boilers, blast furnaces, power generating storage tanks and pressure vessels are usually of mammoth size. It's an exciting time to forge a lifelong career in a trade where so much is on a grand scale. Up to 40 per cent of current boilermakers are expected to retire in the next few years, increasing demand for skilled workers to maintain, repair and retrofit existing facilities and to meet the needs of the current wave of industrial construction. At the same time, advancing technology, new materials and modern production techniques such as modular construction and computer-assisted design are also changing the boilermaker field rapidly. The demand for young people with new skill sets is certain to increase.

Enjoy the travel, camaraderie, and pride that comes with creating something tangible from raw materials, working at construction sites throughout Canada at nuclear power plants, heavy water plants, refineries and chemical manufacturers. Or work in boiler production plants as industrial facilities turn increasingly to smaller pre-fabricated boilers.

Our Program

Humber provides the required technical training and in-school component your apprenticeship. Boilermakers are skilled trades people who build, install and maintain boilers, tanks and vessels - huge steel containers with thick, solid walls that hold liquids and gases and must withstand a great deal of pressure for a long time. Physical strength and stamina are pluses in this trade, as is the ability to work at great heights. Boilermaking also requires a high degree of technical skill and knowledge, as well as good communication and mathematical skills. Students acquire the welding certifications that are required by a journeyperson construction boilermaker, including:

• F6F4 - Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) Root with Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) 7018 Electrode
• F6F6 - Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) Thru-Out
• F4F4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) 7018 Electrode Welding Thru-Out.

Refer to our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) at humber.ca/faq for up-to-date information.

Work Placement

Boilermakers serve a 6,600-hour apprenticeship with 720 hours allocated toward three levels of in-school training.

The Construction Boilermaker Apprenticeship Committee Local 128 directs work assignments.

Professional Accreditation, Endorsement and Recognition

Apprentices completing the required in-school training are issued Certificates of Apprenticeship from Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning. Upon successful completion of in-school and on-the-job training, apprentices write the Ontario Certificate of Qualification (C. of Q.) trade exam.

Apprenticeship certification from one province or territory is not necessarily accepted by others. Upon the completion of the Construction Boilermaker Apprenticeship program, you may write an Interprovincial Boilermaker (Red Seal) Certification test, which will allow you to work in all jurisdictions of Canada without additional testing.

Fees

The 2009/2010 fee for this program is
- Basic - domestic $400
- Intermediate - domestic $400
- Advanced - domestic $400.

For further information, refer to Fees and Financial Assistance in this publication.

Curriculum - Construction Boilermaker Apprenticeship*

*Reportable subjects will change as new Ministry curriculum is implemented.

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