New Brunswick Job Fairs for Welders, Millwrights, and Machinists

• Language exams, i.e. IELTS, TEF, TCF (level 4.0 minimum or 6.0 to 7.0 for higher category jobs on the Canadian Language Benchmarks ). You may also register without it first
• Educational credential assessment (ECA)  Please make sure that you have at least a higher secondary school certification. In case of no ECA report, you may submit the highest attained qualification proof
• Photo page of your current valid passport
• Visa for your current country of legal residence (required if your current country of legal residence is not your country of citizenship)
• Your CV (optional)
• The CV of your spouse (optional) (if applicable)

How to apply for these events?

Before being a part of such job fairs, recruitment events, or immigration information sessions, one has to fill in an application form online (provided above against each job fair). The registration form asks you about yourself (qualification, age, work experience, and financial details, etc).

The registration form has four ( 3 to 4) pages. Once you have completed a page and clicked Next, you cannot go back and change any information previously entered. Before clicking Next at the bottom of any page, be sure to review the page to ensure that all of the information entered is correct and that all requested documents have been uploaded.

Once your application seems good enough for employers, you are given a chance to attend the event online on the given day and time along with an email confirmation.

Category wise list of event job categories

1- Welders and related machine operators- NOC- 7237

Example titles

• Aviation welding technician
• Brazing machine operator
• Brazing machine setter
• Electric arc welder
• Journeyman/woman welder
• Laser welding operator
• Pressure vessel welder
• Production welder
• Soldering machine operator
• Spot welder
• Submerged arc welder
• Welder
• Welder apprentice
• Welder-fitter

Employment requirements

Welders

• Trade certification is compulsory in Alberta and available, but voluntary, in all other provinces and territories,
• Completion of a three-year apprenticeship program or a combination of over three years of work experience in the trade and some college or industry courses in welding is usually required to be eligible for trade certification,
• Completion of secondary school is usually required,
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified welders upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

Welding, brazing, and soldering machine operators

• Secondary school education,
• Several months of on-the-job training are usually provided,
• Experience as a machine operator helper may be required,
• Experience with robotics may be required.

2- Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors- NOC 7231

Example title of the job

• Tooling inspector
• Machine shop inspector
• Machined parts inspector
• Machining inspector
• Machinist
• Automotive machinist
• Aviation machinist
• General machinist
• Machinist apprentice

Employment requirements

Machining and tooling inspectors

• Verify dimensions of machined parts or tooling using micrometers, verniers, calipers, height gauges, optical comparators, coordinate measuring machines (CMM), or other specialized measuring instruments,
• Maintain, repair, and calibrate precision measuring instruments such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, height gauges, and other measuring devices,
• Report deviations from specifications and tolerances to supervisor,
• Complete and maintain inspection reports.

Machinists

• Set up, operate, and maintain a variety of machine tools including computer numerically controlled (CNC) tools to perform precision, non-repetitive machining operations such as sawing, turning, milling, boring, planing, drilling, precision grinding, and other operations,
• Read and interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, charts, and tables or study sample parts to determine machining operation to be performed, and plan the best sequence of operations,
• Compute dimensions and tolerances and measure and layout workpieces,
• May set up and program machine tools for use by machining tool operators,
• Fit and assemble machined metal parts and subassemblies using hand.