Trades - Apprenticeship in Industrial Electrician Apprenticeship is a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme taught at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada. The programme runs for 10 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,400 per total for local students.
This program delivers the technical training component of the Industrial Electrician apprenticeship at Thompson Rivers University, for apprentices who are already indentured in the trade. Training spans four years, with ten weeks of in-school instruction delivered at the Kamloops campus each year, alternating with on-the-job work experience with the sponsoring employer. At each level, apprentices must complete a set of core workplace competency standards and maintain a logbook documenting their progress, which is reviewed by certified assessors. Students are required to have the current edition of the Canadian Electrical Code, Part 1, as a course textbook. Participation requires registration with SkilledTradesBC and an assigned trade worker ID number. The program suits individuals already working as indentured industrial electrical apprentices who need to complete each year's classroom and shop-based technical training, rather than those seeking an initial introduction to the trade. Because industrial electrician positions are concentrated outside the Kamloops region, graduates often find employment in areas such as the Lower Mainland, the Okanagan, Northeast BC, or Alberta, which may require relocation.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: TRU's page for this program publishes no dedicated admission-requirements section: it states only that training "is offered to apprentices who are already indentured in the trade" with a sponsoring employer, delivered as ten weeks of in-school instruction per year over a four-year period. The page directs apprentices to "register with SkilledTradesBC if they do not have a trade worker ID number," and states apprentices must pay tuition and purchase the government-published texts and required TRU lab manuals and worksheet packages, plus the current edition of the Canadian Electrical Code, Part 1. No minimum academic average, English-language test score, interview, or other admission condition is stated on the page.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply directly to TRU: for the September (Fall) intake the deadline is 1 May, for January (Winter) it is 1 September, and for the May (Summer) intake it is 1 January; applications for most programs open 1 October, and a deadline falling on a weekend or statutory holiday moves to the next working day. International applicants follow the same intake structure with deadlines of 1 May (September), 1 October (January) and 1 February (May); TRU still reviews later applications where space remains, though high-volume programs can close early, so admission runs on a rolling basis around these published cut-offs for the 2027 entry cycle. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
