Pipework Contractors and Supervisors
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Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate the activities of personnel who install, repair, and maintain piping systems (e.g. plumbers). They manage their own businesses.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
Main tasks
- Supervise, coordinate, and plan the activities of workers who install, repair, and maintain piping systems.
- Establish work methods to meet deadlines and coordinate work with other sections.
- Order equipment and supplies.
- Resolve work-related problems and recommend measures to increase productivity.
- Manage staff and ensure their training.
- Ensure compliance with occupational safety standards.
- Draft reports.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 5.4% Female
- 94.6% Male
Not available.
- 5.4% Female
- 94.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$83,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2389% of jobs
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NAICS 413% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 453% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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NAICS 531% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2389% of jobs
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NAICS 413% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 453% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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NAICS 531% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
AVS in gestion d'une entreprise de la construction
Code : 5309
Placement rate: 85.4%
5.4% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Several years of experience as a qualified machinist or tool and die maker.
- Journeyman's certificate as a machinist or tool and die maker.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Coordination
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Human resource management
- Time management
- Result evaluation
- Social perception
- Persuasion
- Quality control analysis
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Information processing
- Written expression
- Negotiation
- Service oriented
- Equipment selection
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Speech recognition
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Speech clarity
- Classification
- Distance vision
- Limb coordination
- Manual dexterity
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Time sharing
- Colour perception and distinction
- Control accuracy
- Perception speed
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to delegate
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
- Sense of observation
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Make, build, install
- Self-employment
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 72012
Contractors and supervisors, pipefitting trades
Job titles
- Pipefitters foreman/woman
- Plumber foreman/woman
- Pipefitting contractor
- Plumbing and heating contractor
- Pipefitters supervisor
- Sprinkler system installer foreman/woman
- Fire protection equipment installer foreman/woman
- Gas fitters foreman/woman
- Sprinkler fitters foreman/woman
- Steamfitter foreman/woman
- Gas line fitters foreman/woman
- Gas service foreman/woman
- Marine pipe fitters foreman/woman
- Marine pipefitters foreman/woman
- Sprinkler systems contractor
- Plumbing contractor
- Sprinkler system contractor
- Sprinkler system installers supervisor
- Gas fitters supervisor
- Steamfitters supervisor
- Plumbers supervisor
- Gas service supervisor
Skill type
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
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