Trades - Apprenticeship in Plumber: Apprenticeship - Harmonized

This program provides the in-school technical-training component of the Red Seal plumbing apprenticeship for students already sponsored by a SkilledTradesBC-registered employer, delivered full-time and in-person at the Comox Valley campus. It runs across four levels of differing length — seven, eight, seven and eight weeks respectively — with multiple intakes scheduled through 2028, alongside roughly four years and 6,300 hours of on-the-job training. The curriculum follows SkilledTradesBC's criteria for the trade and allows apprentices to work toward specializations in plumbing, steam fitting, sprinkler fitting or gas fitting, leading to Red Seal certification as a plumber, pipe fitter or sprinkler fitter. The program is open to domestic applicants only and assumes the student is already working in and sponsored for the trade rather than seeking first entry. It suits apprentices moving level by level through their required technical training while accumulating the paid workplace hours needed for full Red Seal certification, with the choice of specialization allowing them to align their classroom training with the type of plumbing work they are performing on the job.