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Rope Access Technician (RAT)

Employer

Tacten

Date Posted

December 16, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Fort McMurray, AB
    Kitimat, BC
  • Earnings $51.50 to $57.62 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 30 to 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 6  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Feb 23, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

Tacten

Languages

English

Education

Other trades certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • At heights
  • Confined spaces
  • Dangerous
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • In/on water
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Outdoors
  • Wet/damp

Work setting

  • Remote location
  • Rural area
  • Urban area
  • Willing to relocate
  • Relocation costs not covered by employer
  • Various locations

Tasks

  • Read blueprints to determine work requirements
  • Instruct apprentices

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA) Certification
  • First Aid Certificate

Security and safety

  • Driver's validity licence check
  • Basic security clearance

Transportation/travel information

  • Willing to travel
  • Valid driver's licence
  • Travel expenses paid by employer

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Attention to detail
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Manual dexterity
  • Physically demanding
  • Standing for extended periods

Own tools/equipment

Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Team player

Employment terms options

  • Early morning
  • Evening
  • Shift

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Employment terms options

  • Morning
  • Night
  • On call
  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime available

Workplace information

On the road job

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

Other benefits

Other benefits

Support for persons with disabilities

Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
  • Does not require Canadian work experience

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
  • Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)

Support for Indigenous people

Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Rope Access Technician (RAT) is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Locksmiths
OBJECTIVE

Interest in precision working to manipulate lockpicks in cylinders to open jammed locks and locks without keys, and to fabricate parts

METHODICAL

Interest in replacing worn and damaged parts by chiselling, filing, scraping and other tooling to correct dimensions

innovative

Interest in analyzing information to disassemble locks such as padlocks and door locks to locate defects

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Recreational Vehicle Repairers
OBJECTIVE

Interest in precision working to inspect and test functional units, wiring, piping and components such as switches, electric motors and valves to determine specific repairs and replacements

INNOVATIVE

Interest in analyzing information to disassemble and repair or replace stoves, heaters, pumps and other malfunctioning units, and to repair wiring and test electrical systems

METHODICAL

Interest in speaking with owners to discuss nature of malfunctions and damages to assess extent of repairs required; and in inspecting new vehicles before delivery according to manufacturers' instructions and motor vehicle regulations

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Mental Abilities

General Learning Ability

Verbal Ability

Numerical Ability

Visual Abilities

Spatial Perception

Form Perception

Clerical Perception

Physical Abilities

Motor Coordination

Finger Dexterity

Manual Dexterity

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