Responsibility
If you are an electrician in Toronto working at an industrial site, your clients will trust you in installing their electrical power and systems, fire and security systems, telecommunications as well as electronic controls. Your job will primarily involve servicing electrical equipment, installing wiring and installing different equipments and machineries. Your function as an electrical contractor will include performing new work, a change in a job that is already done, additions, maintenance of machines and equipments and repair works for faulty electrical wirings.
Skills
When working with the industrial sector, it is your duty as an electrician to give support for the growth in the construction industry, manufacturing, steel production and electrical power companies. When you undergo the apprenticeship program, you will be able to develop your skills in interpreting blueprints and drawings and in understanding different electrical code specifications. You will gain the skills in installing, replacing as well as repairing wiring, lighting, conduits and other electrical components and fixtures. You are expected to work in shift work or full time and you will also be asked to go to different locations.
Outlook
Your role as a professional electrician is very critical in the construction industry as well as in different manufacturing facilities. Your services will be needed in maintaining and replacing their old equipments. When approved by the government, the emergence of wind and solar alternative power generation will require a professional installing the links to different power grid connections. According to the Statistics of the Bureau of Labor, the factory sector will provide the most stable jobs for professional electricians. If you have a wide variety of skills, this will be to your advantage in that you can work for various industries.
Education
In order to become a successful industrial electrician, when you have completed and received your high school diploma, you should be able to complete another four years of apprenticeship program. This particular program will require you at least 144 hours of technical training and at least 2,000 hours of paid training. Inside the classroom, you will be taught what the industrial electrical theory is, what blueprint reading is, what are the electrical code requirements and first aid practices and safety as well as different trainings in communications, soldering, elevators and fire alarm systems.