Starting Career in a Plumbing

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN A PROGRAM?

One of the popular ways to open the profession of plumber and become a demanded specialist is to participate in a special course and respective internship program in order to receive respective knowledge as well as practice. It is a great chance to join the team of reputable Plumbing Company, which operates at the plumbing market for years.

Of course, the course doesn’t guarantee you’ll become a highly qualified specialist after the internship, but it gives work, salary, and a nice team of co-workers without requirements to your previous experience and education. More details about employment will be provided later, let’s see what the internship program includes:

• Pre-learning assessment to identify your knowledge and build education in the most effective way;
• Ability to shadow professionals from Excellent Plumbing team assigned to you getting respective experience and asking questions, the duration may reach several months;
• After several months of shadowing you’ll be assisting to your mentor with simple tasks, so the certain level of confidence in your knowledge will be reached;
• Completing the program by teaching you some tasks, which you will be able to perform without supervision from Excellent Plumbing experts.

Mentioned above tasks will provide you with the following skills:

• Perform diagnostics and identify faults;
• Evaluation of estimate costs and timelines of the repairs, communication it to the customers;
• Handling pipes by cutting, bending, joining them;
• Installing heating, water, drainage systems by your own;
• Maintaining central heating systems, which work on gas, and their radiators;
• Installing appliances connected to the plumbing system (washing machines, showers, sinks, dishwashers) and fixing them, if necessary;
• Working with waterproof materials fitting different parts and joints made of them to walls, roofs, chimneys, and so on;
• Dealing with emergent common issues like a blockage in pipes, drains, boiler’s malfunctions and so on.

The internship will provide you with the necessary experience to resolve the most common issues, will give you the whole picture of working days of a plumber, and will provide you with continuous support from the side of professionals. This is a good chance for further development, obtaining certifications from NVQ or City&Guilds, and becoming a demanded specialist with interesting work.

WHAT ARE COSTS FOR INTERNSHIP?

You’ll probably be surprised to know that you will pay nothing for a new profession. As learning is based on real cases, which require your participation, actually you’ll earn money for your work. You’ll be paid from the first day and will be able to work the full day with a respective decent level of remuneration.

WHAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A PLUMBER?

One of the benefits of being a plumber is a variety of tasks and the absence of routine. Visiting clients at their homes and offering/providing different services like toilets overflow resolving, removal of clogs in drains, washing machines, and dishwashers, making small and serious repairs to appliances, cannot be the same from day to day.

One of the key skills and responsibilities is to perform diagnostics of the problem, finding its roots and removing it. Sometimes it can be a challenging task, but mostly the reasons are obvious. Thus, if you have problem-solving skills and like to help people the profession of a plumber will suit you.

At the same time, it is worth remembering that the plumbing service is a service provided to clients. It is necessary to explain the problem, provide information about ways of its resolving, the time required for that, and estimated cost and stay nice, polite and opened for any additional questions. The additional consultancies regarding best materials, issue preventing measures, and warranties can be requested by clients. So communication skills are not just welcomed but will help you to find your regular clients soon.