Electrician apprentice Jobs in Vancouver, BC

⚡ Now Hiring: Industrial Electrician ⚡

📍 Location: Richmond, BC (Wastewater Treatment Facility)
💼 Position Type: Full-Time Unionized (GVRDEU)
⏰ Schedule: Monday – Friday, 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM (No weekend shifts; occasional on-call weather emergency rotations)
💰 Compensation: $48.87 / hour + 6.25% deferred compensation (wage rates currently subject to upcoming union bargaining increases)

Are you an experienced, safety-minded Trades professional looking for long-term job security, work-life balance, and large-scale industrial equipment to sharpen your skills? 🌍💧

We are recruiting a Journeyperson Electrician to maintain, install, and troubleshoot critical electrical systems supporting essential regional liquid waste infrastructure. If you thrive in heavy industrial environments—such as manufacturing, food processing, or chemical/industrial plants—this is an opportunity to do meaningful, community-impacting work on a stable, daytime weekday schedule! 🏭

Advantages
🌟 Why Apply? Total Rewards & Culture
• 💵 High Earning Potential: Strong base wage supplemented by 6.25% deferred compensation, which can be taken as an additional cash payout on every paycheck OR banked as paid time off!
• 🏖️ Generous Time Off: 3 weeks of paid vacation from day one.
• 🛡️ Comprehensive Benefits: Full medical, dental, vision, and extended healthcare coverage for you and your family.
• 🏦 Municipal Pension Plan: Build long-term retirement security with robust employer-matched pension contributions (9.31% employer match).
• 🥾 Allowances & Gear: Safety boot allowance and all required PPE supplied.
• 🤝 Stable, Respectful Workplace: High job security, predictable daytime hours, and an inclusive, safety-first public-service work environment.

Responsibilities
🔧 What You’ll Do
• Industrial Maintenance & Diagnostics: Install, test, troubleshoot, and maintain heavy electrical equipment across regional facilities, including low, medium, and high-voltage power distribution, motors, controls, and solid-state systems.
• Project Support: Plan work procedures, coordinate material sourcing, and purchase required supplies.
• Technical Records: Read, prepare sketches for, and update prints/drawings while logging accurate work progress reports.
• Teamwork & Mentorship: Assist supervisory staff with job scheduling/cost estimating and support the hands-on training of apprentices.

Qualifications
📋 What You Bring
• 📜 Trades Certification: BC Trade Qualification (TQ) or Interprovincial Red Seal as a Journeyperson Electrician (verification required prior to hire).
• 🎓 Education: Grade 12 Diploma, GED, or recognized higher-level equivalent (e.g., college/university degree).
• 🚗 Licensing & Travel: Valid BC Driver’s License and personal vehicle (plant location requires reliable personal transport; watershed entry health clearance required).
• 🧠 Technical Aptitude: Proven experience with motors, control systems, solid-state electronics, pneumatics/hydraulics, and heavy industrial plant machinery (manufacturing, food processing, or related heavy industry background is strongly welcomed).
• 🛠️ Tools: Must provide standard personal electrician hand tools (PPE and safety boot allowances are provided).


Summary
If you are a qualified Maintenance Electrician seeking a stable and rewarding role, we would love to connect with you.

Please send your updated resume directly to:
stephanie.kihn@randstad.ca
Please include the job title in the subject line of your email.

While we appreciate all applications, only candidates currently located in British Columbia will be contacted.



Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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