Job Description
Education
Other trades certificate or diploma.
Work setting
Commercial. Residential.
Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine layout of plumbing system, water supply network and waste and drainage systems.
- Prepare tenders and quotations.
- Instruct apprentices.
- Locate and mark positions for pipe connections, passage holes and fixtures in walls and floors.
- Cut opening in walls and floors to accommodate pipe and pipe fittings.
- Join pipes using couplings, clamps, screws, bolts, cement or soldering, brazing and welding equipment.
- Schedule personnel, tools and equipment.
- Test pipes for leaks using air and water pressure gauges.
- Determine piping system requirements and pipe sizing.
- Supervise other workers.
- Estimate costs and materials.
- Operate CADD and other computer software systems.
- Measure, cut, thread and bend...