Career Unit

Heavy-Duty Equipments Mechanic

Fast Look• Can repair and maintain heavy-duty

equipment.

• Equipment used for transportation and such.

• Employed to maintain and operate equipment.

• Comfortable with delicate and heavy equipment.

• Minimum education : secondary school and training.

• Attentive , mechanical ability and problem-solving needed.

Duties• Diagnose equipment for malfunctions

with tests.

• Adjust , repair or replace defective equipment.

• Test adjusted equipment for proper performance.

• Clean and lubricate equipment for maintenance.

• May repair things on heavy trucks.

• May attach other attachments to equipment.

Work Conditions and Qualifications

• Work regular work weeks with overtime.

• May work outdoors or in a factory.

• Completion of secondary school is required.

• Certification is not mandatory but helps.

• Certification includes a four year apprenticeship program.

• R.S. gives work in any province.

Current Workforce• Large occupational group that work

full-time.

• Full-time salary for a year is $64,637.00

• Sixty-nine percent work full-time in B.C.

• A lot are currently employed in B.C.

• High employment because of forestry/mining.

• Least employed are in Lower Mainland.

Employment Prospects and Career Paths• 9,850 , currently employed in Lower

Mainland.

• Job openings in future from retirement.

• Employment will go over average.

• Demand for equipment wanted by companies.

• Technologic advances make equipment more efficient.

• New technology will reduce greenhouse gases.

Related Occupations & Resources

• Contractors and supervisors in mechanic trade.

• Millwrights and industrial mechanics , except textiles.

• Automotive service technicians needed for vehicles.

• Resource : Canadian Association of equipment distributors.

• Second occupation resource is Transport Canada.

• Truck , bus and machine mechanic repair.

Marine Biologist

Fast Look• Occupational group includes

aquaculture support workers.

• Hired by fish hatcheries or farms.

• Marine plant gatherers and catch shellfishes.

• Workers may be self-employed by choice.

• Education may be some secondary schools.

• You do aqua labours in water.

Duties• Dig and clean shellfishes for markets.

• Supervise certain technicians in fish hatcheries.

• Feed the aquaculture in the farms.

• Rake seaweed and moss from beaches.

• Keep daily records of water flow.

• Feed aquaculture stocks and vaccinate them.

Working Conditions and Qualifications• Work in office, hospital or school.

• An outside environment with different weather.

• Exposed to various bacteria and viruses.

• In presence of bad smelling odors.

• In contact with water or liquids.

• Might go to Post-secondary for certification.

Current Workforce• About 455 current employed marine

biologists.

• Full-time Yearly salary is about $ 32,257.00.

• 20% are working full-time marine biologists.

• 18% women working full-time as labourers.

• The amount employed is below average.

• The yearly salary is below average.

Employment Prospects and Career Paths

• Lower Mainland has the most employment.

• There will be 2,805 job opportunities.

• 30 jobs from retirement by 2015.

• 10 jobs from projects by 2015

• There are 310 employed in 2010.

• There will be limited opportunities.

Related Occupations and Resources

• Fishing Vessel and skipper are related.

• Fishermen and fisherwomen are also related.

• Aquaculture managers is another job opportunity.

• Aquaculture operators are also another opportunity.

• Fishing vessel deckhands are also related.

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