Industrial Mechanics
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Job description
These individuals install, maintain, repair, and modify industrial equipment (hydraulic, mechanical, automated systems, etc.). They work in:
- Processing plants
- Manufacturing companies
- Public utility companies
- Construction sites
- Mining companies
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Uncontrolled ambient temperature
- Hazardous workplaces
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
- Falling objects
Main tasks
- Select the tools, measuring instruments, and spare parts to be used for each task.
- Secure equipment and work areas.
- Disassemble and reassemble the equipment to be repaired.
- Repair mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
- Try repaired or refurbished equipment.
- Perform preventive maintenance on industrial equipment.
- Interpret blueprints and technical diagrams.
- Collaborate with team leaders, planners, or maintenance managers.
Advancement and mobility
- Qualified Industrial Mechanics obtain a Red Seal endorsement upon successful completion of the Interprovincial Examination.
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
College
DCS in industrial Maintenance Technology
Placement rate: 65.2%
30.4% of graduates pursue further studies
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Equipment maintenance
- Repair
- Monitoring operations
- Troubleshooting
- Quality control analysis
- Data collection
- Operations and control
- Critical thought
- Equipment selection
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Oral expression
- Time management
Abilities
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-arm stability
- Limb coordination
- Digital dexterity
- Control accuracy
- Reaction time
- Hearing sensitivity
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Static muscle power
- Depth perception
- Colour perception and distinction
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Auditory attention
- Selective attention
- Speech clarity
- Classification
- Speed control
- Core strength
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Distance vision
- Visualization
Knowledge and attributes
- Critical thinking
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of mathematics
- Sense of initiative
- Attention to detail
- Knowledge of computer science, digital and electronics
- Intermediate knowledge of the English language
- Sense of observation
- Knowledge of mechanics
Interests
- Work with numbers
- Make, build, install
- Conduct tests and trials, control processes
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- 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.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics (CNP 72400)
Skill type
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
Last update: January 29, 2026