Ship Repair-West occupational group
Ship Repair-West (SR(W))
Definition
Ship Repair-West (SR(W)) Group Definition
Pursuant to section 101 of the Public Service Reform Act, the Treasury Board of Canada hereby provides notice that the following definition shall apply to the Ship Repair – West Group effective .
The Ship Repair-West Group comprises positions in the Department of National Defence located on the West Coast that are primarily involved in the repair, modification and refitting of naval vessels and their equipment.
Inclusions
Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, for greater certainty, it includes positions that have, as their primary purpose, responsibility for one or more of the following activities:
- the installation, testing, inspection, maintenance, repair, modification, quality control and sea trials of mechanical equipment, weapons, missiles and torpedoes; and the propulsion systems of vessels;
- the installation, repair or modification of electrical and electronic equipment including work such as electrical instrument repair, electric motor repair and testing and work performed by an electrician, electrical technician, electronics communications technician, electronic component technician, electronic systems technician and fire-control technician;
- the repair and modification of a vessel’s hull;
- the physical preparation of vessels for refitting or repair;
- the installation, repair and modification of machine tools, test equipment and apparatus used in the above activities, on board ship and in the dockyard workshops;
- the preparation of detailed plans and estimates of time and material for individual pieces of work related to the installations, maintenance, repair or modification of systems and equipment; and
- the leadership of any of the above activities.
Exclusions
Positions excluded from the Ship Repair-West Group are those whose primary purpose is included in the definition of any other group or those in which one or more of the following activities is of primary importance:
- the application of electronics technology to the design, construction, installation, inspection, maintenance and repair of electronic and associated equipment, systems and facilities and the development and enforcement of regulations and standards governing the use of such equipment;
- the alteration, maintenance, or cleaning of buildings, construction engineering equipment, or other installations on shore;
- the operation of stores and storerooms;
- the operation of naval auxiliary vessels, harbourcraft, or floating plant equipment, or mobile equipment; and
- the supply, proofing or repair of ammunition.
Ship Repair – Apprentice (SR-APP) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes positions in a recognized apprenticeship program for trades personnel in the Ship Repair Group - East or Ship Repair Group - West.
Ship Repair – Boilermaking-Blacksmithing (SR-BOB) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as blacksmith, boilermaker, hammersmith and plater.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Electrical and Electronics Working (SR-EEW) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as electrical-instrument repairman, electrician, electric motor repairman and tester, electronic communications technician, electronic component technician, electronic mechanic, electronic systems technician and fire-control electrician.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Elemental (SR-ELE) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of routine duties where adherence to rigid standards or specifications is not required and where little or no latitude exists for judgement.
This sub-group includes such occupations as labourer, labour-pool supervisor and trades helper.
Ship Repair – Engine and Mechanical Equipment Maintaining (SR-EME) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as fitter (mechanical), gasoline, diesel and steam engine mechanics.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Instrument Maintaining (SR-INM) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as instrument mechanic and optical and navigational instrument repairman.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Machining and Toolmaking (SR-MAC) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as fitter (armament), machinist, mechanical systems component mechanic, tool-machine set-up operator and toolmaker.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Machinery Maintaining (SR-MAM) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanic and millwright.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Manipulating (SR-MAN) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of duties that require the dexterous use of hands, hand tools or special devices to work, move, guide or place objects or materials where some latitude exists for judgement in selecting appropriate tools, objects, or materials, in determining work procedure and conformance to standard, and in improvising to meet special conditions, although all of these requirements are fairly obvious. The work most frequently occurs away from a machine-oriented environment and is prevalent in bench-crafts and structural work.
This sub-group includes such occupations as armature winder, caulker, chipper and caulker, cementer (underlay), cradleman, lagger, ocy-acetylene flame burner, riveter and welder.
Ship Repair – Machine Tending (SR-MAT) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of duties that require starting, stopping and observing the functioning of machines and equipment where the worker must be alert in changing guides, adjusting timers and temperature controls, turning valves, pushing buttons, flipping switches, and making other minor adjustments. There is no require-ment for precision set-up of equipment.
This sub-group includes such occupations as air-compressor operator and sandblast operator.
Ship Repair – Machine Driving-Operating (SR-MDO) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of duties that require starting, stopping and moving the controls of machines that must be steered or guided in order to transport people or move tools, equipment or materials. The work is usually performed at the given signals of others.
This sub-group includes such occupations as gantry and hammerhead-crane operator.
Ship Repair – Management (SR-MGT) Sub-group Definition
Positions included in this sub-group are designated as management supervisors engaged in planning, allocating, coordinating, controlling and assessing the effectiveness of the resources required to facilitate the repair, modification and refit of vessels and their equipments in Department of National Defence Dockyards.
Ship Repair – Machine Operating-Controlling (SR-MOC) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of duties that require setting up, starting, adjusting, watching and stopping machines and equipment to fabricate or process materials or products. Typically the worker operates one kind of machine or equipment and is concerned with selecting and installing tools and holding devices, with observing the functioning of the machine and making necessary adjustments to allow for such variables as temperature changes, flow of material or things, and angles of cut, with removing materials or products from the machine and verifying their accuracy with measuring devices, and with making minor repairs to the machine. Considerable latitude exists for judgment in determining conformance to standards.
This sub-group includes such occupations as air-compressor-station engineer, metal cutting-machine operator, pantograph operator and punch-press operator.
Ship Repair – Pipefitting (SR-PIP) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as coppersmith, pipefitter, plumber and steamfitter
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Planning-Estimating (SR-PLE) Sub-group Definition
The formulation of job plans and detailed estimates for the installation, maintenance, repair or modification of systems and equipment in ships and other vessels. This includes determining and assessing work to be performed, describing procedures in the correct sequence, estimating time and material requirements, portraying network diagramming, assigning job stages, and compiling pertinent information into logical job plans.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Precision Working (SR-PRW) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of duties that require skillful working with hands, hand tools or work aids according to prescribed standards. Although the techniques and procedures are established, the responsibility for achievement of the ultimate goal rests with the individual worker. Considerable latitude exists for judgement in determining the work procedures, selecting tools and materials, and modifying techniques to meet varying job requirements.
This sub-group includes such occupations as battery man, canvas worker, glazier, life raft repairman, painter and rigger.
Ship Repair – Quality Control and Weapons Examining (SR-QCW) Sub-group Definition
The provision of technical advice to shop management on the degree to which equipment systems conform to specifications. Work includes running repairs, pre-refit assess-ment and sea trials. This sub-group also includes occupations in the examination and sentencing of weapons.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Sheet Metal Working (SR-SMW) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as sheet-metal worker.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Ship Repair – Ship Painting and Surface Protecting (SR-SPS) Sub-group Definition
The performance or supervision of duties that require the preparation of surfaces, the removal of grease, rust, scale, dirt and old finish, the application of solvents, primers, fillers and a variety of surface protecting materials, the mixing and matching of colours to achieve specified decorative effect, and the installation and weatherproofing of glass.
This sub-group includes such occupations as painter, brush; painter, finish; painter, spray; and painter, glazier.
Ship Repair – Woodworking (SR-WOW) Sub-group Definition
This sub-group includes such occupations as boat builder, cabinet-maker, joiner, loftsman, patternmaker (wood) and shipwright.
Skilled Trades, Journeyman and Higher
The performance and supervision of duties that require fabricating, processing, inspecting or repairing materials, equipment, products or structural units, including the lay-out of work, the set-up of equipment and the operation of precision tools and instruments. The work performed requires the application of an organized body of knowledge related to materials, tools and principles associated with skilled crafts and a thorough knowledge of machine capabilities, properties of materials and craft practices. Workers plan the order of successive operations, use manuals and technical data to position work, adjust machines, establish datum points, verify accuracy, and assume responsibility for the completion of each assignment.
Job Evaluation Standard
Ship Repair (SR) Job Evaluation Standard
You can obtain a copy of the SR Job Evaluation Standard through the job evaluation standards on GCintranet (only available on the Government of Canada network) or by contacting TBS Public Enquiries.
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