A Native Clothing and Crafts Artisan:
- Designs and makes tailored garments and associated leather crafts
- Produces small crafts
Classification: Non-compulsory
Saw Filer/Fitter
A Saw Filer/Fitter:
- Maintains wood sawing machines in lumber or paper mills
- Files grooved, contoured and irregular surfaces of knives, saw blades and metal objects
- Repairs, sets and sharpens bandsaws, chainsaws, handsaws, circular saws and other types of saw blades
- Troubleshoots sawing machinery and analyzing faults for corrective or repair action
Assistant Cook
An Assistant Cook prepares and cooks a wide range of foods for public consumption in various settings such as restaurants and hotels. Specifically, an Assistant Cook:
- prepares, cooks, and assembles complete breakfasts
- prepares short order dishes including hot and cold sandwiches
- prepares stocks, soups and sauces, salads, dressings, vegetables and desserts
- uses a variety of preparation methods including roasting, deep-frying, poaching, sautéeing, braising and grilling to prepare meats, poultry and fish
- practises safe work practices, hygiene, equipment handling, sanitation and workplace safety
Heavy Equipment Operator — Excavator
A Heavy Equipment Operator — Excavator operates an excavator, its attachments and ground engaging equipment in various types of projects across multiple industries, such as road construction and maintenance, mining, quarrying, land clearing, forestry, logging, as well as gas and oil. He/she inspects, maintains, transports and operates this equipment and its attachments. Specifically, a Heavy Equipment Operator — Excavator:
- performs pre-operational inspections, safety and operational checks, preventative maintenance
- monitors equipment performance
- loads and unloads, transports, cleans, oils and refills equipment
- reads and interprets government legislation, site plans and manufacturers’ manuals (i.e. survey indicators)
- installs, operates and removes attachments (i.e. quick attach, buckets, rakes, levels, tillers, cutters, blades, grapples, pushers, vibrators and breakers)
- performs operations, such as excavating, grading, ramp building, stockpiling, backfilling and towing, ensuring maximum productivity
- checks grades, performs cut and fil operations, backfills trenches and excavations, creates slopes, creates mass excavations, clears land, strips surface materials, stockpiles and places materials, lifts materials, performs logging and surface mining operations, perform demolitions, bales snow.
- communicates through various techniques including hand signals
Red Seal trade
Native Residential Construction Worker
A Native Residential Construction Worker:
- Works in all aspects of constructing a First Nation home
Small Engine Technician
A Small Engine Technician diagnoses, repairs and maintains, small to medium sized engine and engine-related systems for off-road vehicles and powered equipment. Specifically, a Small Engine Technician repairs and maintains off-road vehicles and powered equipment systems, including:
- engine fuel management systems
- engine electrical systems
- frames, steering and suspension systems
- transmission and auxiliary power systems
- braking systems
- compressed air supply systems and hydraulic systems
Concrete Pump Operator
A Concrete Pump Operator inspects, prepares, operates, controls, and cleans various concrete pumps including those found in vechicles and their various related attachments/ components. Concrete pumps may be truck mounted, stationary, trailer-mounted as well as tower concrete placing booms. Specifically, a Concrete Pump Operator:
- co-ordinates the placement of concrete through a pump at the work site
- operates the vehicle and loads and unloads concrete pumps and attachments
- sets up the concrete pumps and components and concrete delivery system, operates high pressure pumps and separate placing booms
- performs pre-operational inspections, safety and operational checks and preventative maintenance
- operates concrete pumps and related components
- monitors equipment performance and the movement of the concrete to the pour location
- resolves issues related to the movement of pumpable concrete
- maintains the equipment, cleans concrete pumps and components
- reads and interprets government legislation, site plans and manufacturers’ manuals (i.e. survey indicators)
- communicates through various techniques including hand signals
Heavy Equipment Operator — Tractor Loader Backhoe
A Heavy Equipment Operator — Tractor Loader Backhoe operates a tractor loader backhoe, its attachments and ground engaging equipment in various types of projects across multiple industries, such as road construction and maintenance, mining, quarrying, land clearing, forestry, logging, as well as gas and oil. Specifically, a Heavy Equipment Operator — Tractor Loader Backhoe:
- inspects, maintains, transports and operates this equipment and attachments
- performs pre-operational inspections, safety and operational checks and preventative maintenance
- monitors equipment performance, loads and unloads, transports and cleans, oils and refills equipment
- reads and interprets government legislation, site plans and manufacturers’ manuals (i.e. survey indicators)
- installs, operates and removes attachments (i.e. quick attach, buckets, bucket thumbs, quick couplers, splitters, grapples, teeth and adapters)
- performs operations such as excavating, grading, ramp building, stockpiling, backfilling and towing ensuring maximum productivity
- clears ice and snow, checks grades, performs cut and fil operations, backfills trenches and excavations, stockpiles and places materials, excavates trenches and ditches, loads trucks, lifts materials, performs clean-up operations, performs logging and surface mining operations, and perform demolitions.
- communicates through various techniques including hand signals
Red Seal trade
Optics Technician (Lens and Prism Maker)
An Optics Technician (Lens and Prism Maker):
- Produces precision spherical and plane optics to specifications
- Corrects lens/prisms surfaces to optimum quality
- Checks with interferometer and spectrometer
- Inspects, cements, and aligns optical components to optical axes
- Coats optics with anti-reflecting or high reflecting coats
Special Events Coordinator
A Special Events Coordinator:
- Assists in the coordination and execution of events such as meetings, conferences and conventions, sporting events, fundraising events, festivals, consumer and trade shows, incentive programs, product launches and weddings
*IMPORTANT NOTICE*
Please note that this trade has been placed under review for a 3-month period as a result of low activity in the apprenticeship program. To learn more about the review process, please see: STO initiates review of 18 apprenticeship programs – Skilled Trades Ontario.