Job requirements
Languages
English
Education
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
- Specific Skills
- Transport cases of glass; Repair glass doors and other glass structures; Position and secure panes in frame; Measure, mark and cut glass; Install door, window and other hardware; Determine type of glass, frames and material required; Assemble and install prefabricated glass, mirrors or glass products; Assemble, erect and dismantle scaffolding, rigging and hoisting equipment
- Major Work Area
- Repair; Installation
- Frame Fabrication and Installation
- Spandrel panel installations; Entranceways; Curtain wall (prefabricated material); Curtain wall (stock length material); Aluminum framing members
- Additional Skills
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages; Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications; Prepare shop drawings; Prepare tenders and quotations; Operate CADD and other computer software systems; Estimate costs and materials; Work from man-lift mobile equipment, cranes and other lifting equipment
- Work Setting
- Retail service and repair firm; Residential; Institutional; Industrial; Commercial
- Work Site Environment
- Dangerous; Outdoors; At heights
- Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Handling heavy loads; Physically demanding; Standing for extended periods; Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Installation Specialization
- Stained glass installations; Skylights and slope glazed installations; Shower doors and tub enclosures; Overhead automatic doors; Electrically altered glass; Aluminum storefronts, barrel vaults, solariums, commercial window systems; Walls and other interior areas (i.e. partitions)