Industrial Electrician is a person who inspects, installs, tests, troubleshoots, repairs, and services industrial electrical equipment and associated electrical and electronic controls. Service includes calibration and preventive/predictive maintenance. Industrial electricians are employed by maintenance departments of plants, mines, smelters, oil and gas rigs as well as platforms, mills, shipyards, factories and other industrial establishments.

Industrial Electrician is a nationally designated trade under the Inter-provincial Red Seal program. (Find out about Red Seal in the Trades Lingo section.)

What do these workers do?
(Source: BC Work Futures)

Troubleshoot and perform emergency maintenance. Electricity is crucial to the operation of all factories, production yards and warehouses. You will be called upon to perform emergency maintenance, sometimes at all hours of the day and night. Working quickly to identify, isolate and fix a problem will prevent expensive production stopages.

Read and interpret blueprints and schematics. Industrial electricians are responsible for the wiring and installation of new machinery. Working on a team with millwrights, you must be able to follow complicated wiring diagrams, integrate them with the facility's existing wiring and document in the schematic any changes you make.

Monitor and test systems. You will stay ahead of problems by running routine tests and monitoring control circuits. Keeping careful records of these tests lets you spot abnormal conditions as they arise and fix or replace the component before it fails.

Install and calibrate electrical and pneumatic control circuits. These circuits are a combination of microelectrical and mechanical controls. They require lots of adjustment and testing to keep them functioning properly.

Keep accurate records and document maintenance programs. Particularly when working as part of a team, keeping accurate and consistent records that others can use is one of the best ways to ensure that everything will run smoothly.

Research new equipment, controls and instruments. Electronic controls are becoming smaller and more multifunctional and industrial electricians must keep current with changing industry standards.

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