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Plumber definition

Plumber means a person who has passed a qualifying Trade Test in Plumbing or has been issued with a certificate of proficiency in terms of the Manpower Training Act, 1981 (Act No 56 of 1981) or such other qualification as may be required under national legislation;
Plumber means an employee employed or usually employed in executing any general plumbing, ship plumbing, gas fitting, pipe fitting, lead burning, sanitary, heating and domestic engineering, industrial, commercial, medical, scientific and chemical plumbing.

Examples of Plumber in a sentence

  • Appointments from first shift employees to the second shift will be made on the basis of seniority within the specific trade (Plumber, Steamfitter, Oil Burner Technician, Air Conditioning Technician).

  • All first shift employees within the specific trade (Plumber, Steamfitter, Oil Burner Technician, Air Conditioning Technician) have the right to bid for the second shift.

  • Those employees assigned to the first shift will receive priority for emergency overtime situations requiring Plumber, Steamfitter, Oil Burner Technician or Air Conditioning Technician services that occur during the hours that the second shift is working in a building other than the building the second shift is working in.


More Definitions of Plumber

Plumber means an employee over the age of 21 or who has completed a full term of apprenticeship under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000 competent in gas fitting, gas service work, all branches of lead work, including sanitary work, hot and cold water appliances and services or who works or fixes galvanised iron or zinc or other metal used for similar purposes, in connection with buildings, who makes baths, tanks, and all other articles made of galvanised iron or zinc or other metal used for similar purposes in or in connection with a plumber's shop, or usually fixed in a building in the course of erection, alteration, or repair, who is engaged in the installation and/or repair of soda and cordial fountains and accessories thereto, and/or the fixing of cement and/or fibro cement guttering and/or down pipes and/or articles made of any other material which supersedes the material usually fixed by plumbers in connection with buildings and not covered by any other Award, or who is engaged in any of the aforementioned classes of work.
Plumber s apprentice" means a person other than a
Plumber means a person appointed as such and without limiting the ordinary meaning of "plumbing", who is engaged on work including lead burning, chemical plumbing, oxy-welding, electric welding and brazing applicable to plumbing work, gas fitting, maintenance, installations and repair of hot and cold water services and hot water and/or steam heating services, air conditioning plants, the making up, fitting and installation of sewage and sewerage systems in sheet lead, galvanised iron, cast iron or any other material which supersedes the materials usually used by plumbers, the fixing of roofing, curtain walling, spouting, downpipes, gutters, valleys, ridging and flashings in any metal or any material, and the fixing, maintenance and repair of metal drain pipes and vent pipes to any building.
Plumber means a person who carries out plumbing work as defined in section 59I;
Plumber means any person who, in the trade of plumbing, has, in terms of the Manpower Training Act 1981(Act 56 of 1981), passed a qualifying trade test or has been issued with a certificate of proficiency;
Plumber s apprentice" means any person other than a journeyman or a master plumber, who, as the person's principal occupation, is engaged in learning and assisting in the installation, alteration, and repair of plumbing and drainage, under the immediate and personal supervision of either a master or a journeyman plumber.