Trades - Apprenticeship in Plumber: Apprenticeship is a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme taught at British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada. The programme runs for 30 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 4,400 per total for local students.
This program delivers the in-school technical training for BCIT's Plumber apprenticeship, covering installation, repair, and maintenance of plumbing fixtures and systems including water, hydronic, and drainage-waste-vent (DWV) systems. Under the current stream, training totals 780 hours across four levels — Levels 1 to 3 at six weeks each and Level 4 at eight weeks — with 5,620 required workplace hours; the harmonized stream, for apprentices starting after April 2019, totals 900 hours across four levels (Levels 1 and 3 at seven weeks, Levels 2 and 4 at eight weeks) with 6,300 workplace hours. Classes run Monday to Friday, 0730-1400, at BCIT's Burnaby campus, with multiple start dates offered through the year. Enrolment requires active registration as an apprentice with SkilledTradesBC. Recommended preparation is high school graduation with English 12, Algebra 11, and Physics 11 or equivalents. On completing all levels, apprentices earn a Certificate of Apprenticeship and Certificate of Qualification with an interprovincial Red Seal endorsement, and those reaching the highest technical level with a BC Certificate of Qualification may also apply for a BCIT Diploma of Trades Training. The program suits working plumbing apprentices who need structured technical instruction alongside on-the-job training.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Applicants must be an active apprentice registered with SkilledTradesBC, entering either by completing BCIT's Piping Foundation Certificate for Level 1 credit, or by securing employment with a plumber who sponsors the registration. BCIT recommends, without strictly requiring, high-school completion or equivalent, including English 12 or demonstrated English-language proficiency, Algebra 11 or Trades Math 11, and Physics 11 or Science and Technology 11; no standardized English test score is published for this trade. Applicants with medical or physical limitations are directed to Accessibility Services. Training is restricted to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with a CAD 200 commitment fee required on registration.
Application Details
Application Deadline:BCIT publishes common credential application dates for most cohort-based diplomas, degrees and Flexible Learning routes, though each program's own page governs: for the January 2027 intake domestic applications run 1 February 2026 to 2 January 2027 and international to 1 November 2026; for the April 2027 intake domestic runs 1 May 2026 to 1 April 2027 and international to 1 February 2027; for September 2027 domestic applications open 1 October 2026 and close 1 September 2027, international 2 July 2027. Openings are 9:00 am and deadlines 11:59 pm Pacific Time, moving to the next business day on a weekend. Admission is not institute-wide rolling, but many programs work first-qualified-first-accepted and can fill before the posted deadline, and several programs, mostly in Health Sciences, trades and graduate studies, run entirely separate application tables of their own. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
