Plumber
Install and maintain water supply and sewerage systems in a building.
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- What's it like to be a Plumber?
- How to become a Plumber
- Top skills and experience for Plumbers
What's it like to be a Plumber?
A Plumber is responsible for fixing the pipes in a customer’s house or business establishment. This typically concerns issues in the water supply and sewerage systems. A Plumber can be part of a business that hires on-call Plumbers to clients, or can set up his or her own business. A typical day as a Plumber consists of answering calls, scheduling visitations, and traveling to the home or business in need of plumbing services.
Tasks and duties
- Installing, repairing, and maintaining pipes, valves, and fixtures connected to the drainage, sewerage, and irrigation systems.
- Evaluating the plumbing situation of residential and commercial structures.
- Identifying any plumbing issues and addressing them accordingly.
- Performing routine inspections of plumbing and drainage systems.
- Responding to emergency plumbing situations.
- Preparing bidding, budgets, and cost estimates.
- Providing contracts when necessary.
- Fulfilling contracts and job requests in a timely manner.
- Working alongside contractors, electricians, architects, engineers, and other professionals in the construction industry.
- Evaluating and executing building plans and blueprints.
- Consulting on plumbing plans and pointing out errors when necessary.
Aside from the hands-on work required of Plumbers, they can also assist architects and engineers by consulting with them on the location of pipes in a house or building plans. Plumbers should also be knowledgeable on building regulations and safety standards so they can best advise their customers on the solutions to their plumbing problems.
How to become a Plumber
Plumbers must be certified by the Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Air Negara/National Water Services Commission (SPAN) in order to do business. Once licenced, a Plumber has many opportunities for career growth.
- Attain the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) or any level of the Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia (SKM).
- Get any or all of the following plumbing licences, depending on your specialisation. This could be a IPA Type A permit for water Plumbers who regularly work on water pipes and water fittings, IPA Type B permit for sewerage pipers who deal with connection pipes to sewers, IPA Type C permit for work contractors who construct, install, or modify water supply or sewerage systems, IPA Type D permit for operations and maintenance contractors who carry out basic repair services for a water supply or sewerage system, and/or IPA Type E permit for desludging contractors who are tasked with desludging sewage systems.
- Gain work experience at a certified plumbing service in Malaysia. Just as Plumbers are licenced, so should plumbing service companies.
- Define your specialisation and master your skils. There are many sub-specialisations under the specialised plumbing licences. For example, a Plumber with an IPA Type A permit might know all the facets of water pipes and fittings, but could be best known for installing water heaters or fixing low water pressure issues.
- Start your own plumbing business. Once you have enough experience, you can pursue your own licenced plumbing business and hire other Plumbers to join you.
Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Plumber employers on Jobstreet are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas.
Source: Jobstreet job ads and Jobstreet Profile data
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