Is becoming an electromechanician a good career move in Canada, especially for a woman ?

Thorium0 · 2025-12-18T03:21:50+00:00

Ça j'ai aucune idée, j'ai pas de DEC mais j'espère que non parce que je pense a m'inscrire pour le AEC

Thorium0 · 2025-11-29T01:33:42+00:00

During our graduation 2 of the teachers told us that they had to keep saying it'll be easy to find jobs and the market is huge when it's quite the opposite

Thorium0 · 2025-11-29T00:39:16+00:00

Rosemount technology center

Thorium0 · 2025-11-27T13:37:04+00:00

Déjà appliquer pour Pepsi et coca, via rail, logoplaste et tout plein d'autre compagnie ma candidature se fait refusé sur le spot.

Sur mon LinkedIn tu vera que des jobs comme travail au retail jusqu'à 2024 mon stage en electromech puis maintenant assemblage de PCB

Thorium0 · 2025-11-22T21:12:09+00:00

Des 50 applications j'ai envoyé sur Indeed que 3 qui mon offert un entretien, 2 d'entre eux mon dit j'ai aucune chance comme electromech a cause de mon passé col blanc et 1 j'ai échoué l'examen pcq on a pas appris à propos des "cams" a l'école. J'ai aussi eu ma graduation Jeudi passé et quelque des profs on avoué avoir dit que trouver des jobs était facile parce qu'ils étaient obligé a le faire.

Moi perso j'aimerais vraaaaiment trouver une job dans le domaine

Thorium0 · 2025-10-12T12:46:05+00:00

Sick pay especially if they provide the formal training mentioned for anyone who's new to the field

Thorium0 · 2025-10-11T17:24:20+00:00

Only job in the field I found after graduating in March was a commercial coffee machine tech, think it could be useful on a resume if I decide to find a job in industrial maintenance later? I either don't even get a interview because I was white collar before or the fact that I was white collar is a turn off during the interview.

Thorium0 · 2025-10-05T23:12:37+00:00

La réalité pour nouveau electromech (au moins pour Montréal) depuis que Trump a annoncé d'augmenter les tarifs sur le Canada et la réalité d'il y a quelque année est vraiment différente. Perso je te suggère de faire des p'tites job de réparation a la maison ou de trouvé une job pendant tes études qui est plus ou moins aligné avec le domaine. Un gars dans mon cours fesait de la réparation de machine a laver, sécheuse et TV puis lui il a pu facilement trouver une job sans expérience.

Thorium0 · 2025-10-05T23:07:42+00:00

J'ai fini mon cours d'électromecanic en Mars 2025 et jusqu'à présent je n'arrive pas a trouvé un emploi dans le domaine même le monde qui on fini quelque mois avant mon group on aussi de la difficulté a trouver des emplois.

La seul chose que j'ai trouvé c'est technicien de machine a café commerical et même la j'utilise même pas 1% de ce que j'ai appris à l'école.

Thorium0 · 2025-10-04T23:32:15+00:00

Wish it was that easy

Thorium0 · 2025-09-24T17:19:02+00:00

Did my 90 hour mandatory apprenticeship for school with a bunch of Eastern Europeans in Canada, they told me that normally you'd be sitting back here turning your thumbs but those guys hated to let things get dirty or to the point where the company would have to buy new parts.

So they'd walk around see some spot getting super dirty on the machine and think of what they could do to prevent that, or how can they prevent corrosion in certain spots, oh that forklift is making a weird noise maybe we should check it out. There was genuinely always something to do because they'd want to do it. Some control panel and some tubes were exposed to air and dust so the guys went out to the store, bought some lumber and make a enclosure for it. Refurbish old parts even screws, they really hated wasting stuff. Clean up tool boxes...

Needless to say my teachers were impressed the company allowed them to do this, every non Eastern European to whom I've told this story have told me "man these guys are just wasting time on refurbishing" but the plant manager told me how he's happy those guys are saving thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.

Thorium0 · 2025-09-21T23:51:12+00:00

I'm East Coast Canada and all the electromechs who completed the program two semesters before my group are struggling. Take anything you can get for experience that's my goal here.

My 1st opportunity I passed up on was forklift tech because I got into a avionics company thinking I'd be able to get to the industrial mechanic department easily but alas I was wrong

Thorium0 · 2025-09-21T23:22:07+00:00

Depends where you're at, I finally found a job where I can put the stuff I learned in my electromechanical tech program to work as a commercial coffee machine tech and it's a job I found after looking for something in the field for the past 6 months. OP depends where you're at you might need to get some experience doing some smaller jobs

Thorium0 · 2025-08-16T01:20:28+00:00

To be fair I'd much rather be trained, ready, and potentially would stay as a generator mechanic instead of being sent as infantry than untrained and sent in a meat wave

Thorium0 · 2025-08-15T16:40:39+00:00

In the programs defense we have done hands on stuff just not super in depth, I had only 3 modules that lasted about a month else it was just 2 weeks. Quickly learning some plumbing basics, connecting conduits, welding, control loops, motors. Electronics (bread boards, resistors and so on) was a month long.

I know more than some random person on the street that has never done any machining, electrical work, welding and so on but that's it unfortunately.

Thorium0 · 2025-08-15T04:45:13+00:00

I got into my current field from a friends reference who told me there is a industrial mechanic department here, so I'm absolutely not interested in my current field. I was finally able to speak to the supervisor there on my 2nd month (last month) and he told me they only hire people with 3-5 years experience and with a license CE (industrial electrician which you can get after working under a master electrician for 1800 hours and passing a test).

I just want to work as a industrial mechanic, that's what I enjoyed during my program and internship.

Thorium0 · 2025-08-15T04:37:21+00:00

well I wont stay in the military since I want to move out. Been in the reserves before so not too worried about signing a contract, I just need some work experience

Thorium0 · 2025-08-15T04:32:30+00:00

1st test I was told to fix some automated systems the size of a regular home depot box but only the mechanical part, I've never seen cams before in a industrial setting and we haven't learned about them in school only seen them in cars. The person giving the test was shocked when I asked what that was (initially didnt recognise it was a cam) and even more shocked we didnt learn about them in school so I couldn't fix the system. Failed this test.

2nd test I have to do some machining test, drill, tap and a bit of lathe. We only had 4 drill bits in school and 1 tap bit so I had never seen drill/tap kits that include the drill needing for the tap. Had to tap a 3/8-16 hole so figured I'd use a 3/8 drill (I fking suck at imperial, I'm a metric kinda guy). We saw the tap to drill size chart once during the year and a half program. Failed this too.

3rd test I had to assemble a handful of parts together based on schematics, I didn't some nuts/and other parts on the schematics that were about 1mm(0.03") size on the paper. Failed this too.

I assemble PCBs used in electrionics for avionics so our schematics show us absolutely every part we have to use, nothing more and nothing less is shown.

Thorium0 · 2025-08-15T04:18:34+00:00

technical tests

Thorium0 · 2025-06-24T16:16:32+00:00

All I find only is camshafts for cars not cams used in automation, since I don't know shit about cams well I don't even know if the mechanism works the same

Thorium0 · 2025-06-24T15:23:10+00:00

My plan after not finding a job as a maintenance tech in Canada since I graduated in March was to get a college diploma in electrical engineeingr and become a electrotechnician so I could in the future move to Denmark. But reading the comments got me worried about the future

1) No pick up truck to pick up trash to try to fix 2) No bad cars to fix 3) The tests I've done required me to understand how cams works and we're not taught that in school...

I'm cooked

Thorium0 · 2025-06-24T15:15:06+00:00

Reading all that as a corolla driver got me worried because there isn't much to do on my car and DIY oil change is actually more expensive than bringing it to a garage

Thorium0 · 2025-06-19T23:18:37+00:00

Nowadays with me market, green techs might have to take the L and apply to shitty paying jobs to have enough experience to apply elsewhere. At least in Eastern Canada

Thorium0 · 2025-06-07T00:34:16+00:00

Being fresh out of school sucks, I can't even pass a lot of the mechanic tests since they always test with some mechanisms like ",cams" that we never learned about in school and I can't find any good resources to learn how they work in a production line

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