Local Employment Potential Information

Table on the employment potential for Boilermakers in North Shore Region as well as in the rest of the Nova Scotia.

Location	Employment Potential	Release Date
North Shore Region		2011-06-16

Currently the chances of qualified Boilermakers finding employment are considered to be limited in the local area. Although there are relatively few boilermakers employed and only a few potential employers in the local area; opportunities may exist in larger centres such as Halifax or Moncton. Emission-reducing components are increasingly being installed in facilities such as power plants, gas plants and smelters. Boilermakers are responsible for the installation, maintenance and repair of these components. Demand from other provinces like Alberta has drawn many freshly trained trades workers away from the local area in search of employment where they can earn more money and get their required hours to become certified journeymen.

There is usually travel involved in this trade and there are frequent periods of unemployment, although wages tend to be high when employed. The average age of workers in this occupation in Nova Scotia is 44 years, so, retirements may create some demand for replacement workers. Compulsory certification is now required to work in Nova Scotia to work as a Boilermaker. Compliance will begun in March 2010, however, most workers are already certified because employers require it to meet safety standards in their province. For more information on future labour requirements for Construction Trades in Nova Scotia please visit the Construction Sector Council website.

Boilermaker became a designated trade in 1976 that qualifies for the Interprovincial Standards Red Seal Program which allows qualified tradespersons to practice the trade in any province or territory in Canada where the trade is designated without having to write further examinations.

Although employment opportunities locally are limited, opportunities may exist in other areas of the province or in other regions of the country. People who are able to work elsewhere may want to research opportunities for this occupation in other labour markets within Nova Scotia and across the country. The future employment outlook for Boilermakers in Nova Scotia is expected to be fair over the next 5 years.

Additional information on Boilermakers (opportunities in other areas, training, who hires, current job openings, statistics and other information), is available on other parts of this web site.

Local Labour Market News

Week of May 06 – May 10, 2013

• Pictou Lodge is expected to reopen in late May 2013 under new ownership. The seasonal hotel, which had employed about 60 workers, had gone into receivership over the winter.
• Three Guysborough county community groups will receive infrastructure funding from the federal government
• The Lobster Bar, a restaurant, will open in Pictou in June 2013

Week of Apr 29 – May 03, 2013

• The province of Nova Scotia will provide a loan to Pollycello, an Amherst-based packaging manufacturer, to help maintain the 300 jobs at the plant
• Moir’s Costumes & Events will open on Provost Street in New Glasgow this month
• Giant Tiger will open its New Glasgow store in the fall of 2013 at the former Zellers location
• Scotsburn Co-operative Services will close the Farm Services retail store in Scotsburn in June 2013

Week of Apr 22 – Apr 26, 2013

• Construction is expected to begin in the spring or early summer of 2013 on a new recreational and competitive rowing centre on Lochaber Lake
• Marinus Verhagen Enterprises Ltd. will begin building an asbestos disposal facility in McLellans Brook this spring and open it later in 2013

Week of Apr 15 – Apr 19, 2013

• Renovations continue on two schools in the Guysborough County area