• Handles, stores and disposes of hazardous workplace materials such as gases, acids and solvents
• Knowledgeable of the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems guidelines, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Chemical Hazards and hazardous materials, and follow the operation and maintenance requirements of all equipment
• Communicating well with co-workers
• Maintaining service documents including service call sheets, work orders, work performance sheets and log books, and writing numerous work reports such as injury reports, environmental reports and maintenance charts
• Monitors and runs analogue, electronic or computerized control panels
• Determine properties, reactions, temperatures, pressures and chemical analysis of chemical constituents
• Using and maintaining hand tools such as hammers, wrenches screwdrivers and pliers as well as using and maintaining measuring devices including those for temperature, pressure, level and flow

• Secondary school diploma; math and science credits an asset
• Completion of a 6,480-hour apprenticeship, including a combination of on-the-job and in-school training

• May move into a manager/supervisor position
• Full-time work, indoors

Apprentice wage increases with skills and experience. The average apprentice will make $83,000 per year.

Process Operator: Power (246R)

If you checked YES to the majority of these questions, a career as a Process Operator: Power may be for you!

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• Process Operator: Refinery, Chemical, and Liquid Processes
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