Skilled Trades Blog

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Once you successfully complete your gas technician training and certification, your career options are practically limitless. Your Gas Technician license opens doors to skilled trades career opportunities that you may not have even considered before. In our Career Close-Up series, we'll explore the industry jobs you can choose from to help you prepare for the career you want!

 

Residential Furnace Technician

Furnaces are the workhorses of a home that are typically overlooked until problems arise, which can make life miserable for the homeowners. Furnace repair technicians return a furnace to normal function by interpreting the data from diagnostic tools, such as voltmeters and combustion analyzers, and adjusting system controls accordingly. As a Residential Furnace Technician, you are responsible for installing, maintaining and repairing furnaces in residential dwellings. 

Topics: Gas Technician Careers, Career Opportunities, Transferrable Skills

 

Niagara & Halton Skilled Trades Academies not only provides training to those wishing to break into the gas technician field in Ontario, but also to those who are currently working in the trades and would like to upgrade their current license.

Topics: Gas Technician Careers, Trade School, Ontario Gas Technician, Gas Technician, HVAC Careers, Hands On Learning, Ontario College of Trades, Ontario Gas Technician Training

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All kidding aside, the notion of the gateway trade is what make the gas techinician certification such an attractive one for people considering a career in the trades. Many students that have gone through to receive their certifications end up attaining apprenticeships in other trades and are able to work towards red seal certification. Learn why that matters.

 

Gas Technicians Head Straight To Work

Many trades require the lengthy apprenticeship system to attain the red seal that deems them fully qualified to work. When you are training to be a gas technician you actually get certified in the classroom and then enter the real world. At the Skilled Trades Academies we see our students through every step of the certification process and ensure that they are ready to work in the field before they graduate from our program.

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The Canadian government has identified a demand for qualified workers in the skilled trades. It is time to take advantage of this demand with a Gas Technician certification, offered at all levels at the Niagara and Halton Skilled Trades Academies.

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The Stop The Trades Tax Campaign warns Ontario’s new trades tax will undermine new federal budget initiatives to support and promote skilled trades. These budget 2013 initiatives, including the Canada Job Grant program, are aimed at easing the growing shortage of skilled labour in Canada.

Under the Canada Job Grant program announced in last week’s budget, employers can get $5,000 in federal funding, which must be matched by $5,000 in provincial funding, to match their own $5,000 commitment to train an unemployed or underemployed worker to do a skilled trades job.  Quebec has, in recent days, announced it will refuse to participate.

In Ontario, the federal government initiatives will be undermined by the mandatory fees being levied on skilled trades by the Ontario College of Trades, says Sean Reid, chair of the Stop the Trades Tax campaign.

Topics: Gas Technician, Ontario College of Trades