Classification: Non-compulsory

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.

Cook

A Cook prepares a wide range of foods for public consumption in various settings, for small or large groups or individual dishes in restaurants and test kitchens. Specifically, a Cook:

  • prepares, cooks, and assembles food such as meats, salads and dressings, soups, sauces, sandwiches, vegetables, desserts, pastries, baked foods, hot and cold buffets and non-alcoholic beverages
  • creates specialty dishes and develops recipes
  • performs menu and nutrition planning, food costing, purchasing, scheduling and receiving deliveries and checking product quality and quantity
  • estimates food, liquor, wine and other beverage consumption to anticipate purchases or requisitions
  • practices according to food safety standards for hygiene, sanitation and safety

Red Seal Badge Red Seal trade

Horse Groom

A Horse Groom performs the following duties:

  • Handles and controls horses
  • Performs grooming procedures
  • Performs tacking-up of horse
  • Performs untacking of horse
  • Performs feeding procedures
  • Performs horse health maintenance procedures
  • Cleans stalls
  • Maintains stable facilities, tools, equipment and supplies

Packaging Machine Mechanic

A Packaging Machine Mechanic performs some or all of the following:

  • Repair, adjust, maintain, and monitor machines and equipment that package products
  • Set up packaging line to accommodate various products, package dimensions, and production volumes
  • Adjusts guides, belts, conveyor speeds, drive and transfer mechanisms to required tolerances
  • Initiates start up
  • Observes line in operation
  • Identifies trouble areas
  • Advises maintenance management of recurrent problems
  • Refers complex electrical and mechanical repairs to certified personnel
  • Cleans and lubricates machine components to ensure fluid operation

*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.

Surface Blaster

A Surface Blaster:

  • Assesses the pre-blast area and site, controls the blast area, designs and implements the blast, loads blast holes, hooks up and initiates shot and assesses blast results

Die Designer

A Die Designer designs all cutting and forming dies by:

  • Demonstrating safe working practices and techniques
  • Reading and interpreting a piece part drawing
  • Conveying information to CAD program/system
  • Determining the type of die
  • Designing a layout of sequence of operations
  • Creating a tooling design
  • Dimensioning the die design
  • Finalizing the die drawing/design
  • Implementing construction of the die

*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.

Horse Harness Maker

A Horse Harness Maker:

  • Stitches leather by hand
  • Cuts heavy leather by hand
  • Assembles and constructs material by hand
  • Diagnoses and repairs broken or defective components and replaces worn parts
  • Trims, slicks, rubs, creases, punches holes, bevels edges and dyes or burnishes edges
  • Reads and interprets job specifications technical drawings

*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.

Precast Concrete Erector

A Precast Concrete Erector:

  • Loads precast units on site
  • Conducts pre-erection surveys
  • Unloads and stores precast units
  • Installs and aligns precast units
  • Installs bolted precast connections
  • Makes welded precast connections
  • Installs dowelled precast connections

Surface Mount Assembler

A Surface Mount Assembler may perform some of all of the following:

  • Solder and manually bond or assemble various electronic components such as transistors, diodes, capacitors, integrated circuits, wires and other electronic parts
  • Install mount, fasten, align and adjust parts, components, to subassemblies and assemblies
  • Set-up, operate and monitor automatic and semi-automatic machines to position, solder/bond and clean prescribed components on printed circuit boards
  • Operate and monitor process equipment including automatic and semi-automatic machines to fabricate electronic components, solder, clean, seal and stamp components and perform other process operations as specified
  • Set-up process equipment and adhere to clean room procedures as required
  • Inspect electronic components and assemblies to ensure correct component selection and placement, wiring and soldering quality, location, breaks in circuitry and line spacing in printed circuit boards and other specified requirements while products are being assembled or fabricated.