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Official standard. This page transcribes or closely follows an official Skilled Trades Ontario, Electrical Safety Authority, or IATSE document. It is provided for reference and convenience only — it is not the authoritative record. Always confirm current requirements against the original source or Skilled Trades Ontario.
Entertainment Industry Power Technician (trade code 269E) is a certified trade regulated under Ontario's Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (OCTAA), administered today by Skilled Trades Ontario.
Program definition
An Entertainment Industry Power Technician:
- demonstrates competencies in temporary power distribution systems for the entertainment industry, including film, television, live performance, tradeshows, special events, and carnivals;
- plans proposed layouts, installations, and rigs from technical drawings, sketches, and/or specifications;
- connects plug-in devices to mobile generator sets;
- works on circuits limited to 400 amps and less than 750 volts;
- lays out and connects single-pin-based portable power distribution systems, including tees, single-pin multiple-connection devices, and multi-pin (multi-conductor) sub-distribution boxes;
- works on temporary installations up to, but not including, hardwire connection to the power system of permanent buildings;
- rigs and hangs luminaires on fixed and/or movable rigs, and installs set practicals and special effects lighting;
- rigs luminaires, video screens, and speakers on motorized mobile work platforms and cranes;
- lays out power to dimming and lighting control systems;
- fits, repairs, and maintains luminaires, dimming systems, and mobile generator sets.
- Source: Apprenticeship Training Standard, Apprenticeship Program Summary/Guidelines, p.1
Legal scope of practice
The trade's scope of practice is set out in law. Under O. Reg. 276/11 (Scope of Practice — Trades in the Industrial Sector, under the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009):
14. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the scope of practice for the trade of entertainment industry power technician includes work in film, television, live performance, trade shows, special event productions and carnivals by doing the following:
- Evaluating job requirements.
- Planning, building, installing, maintaining and disassembling power distribution systems, including both main and subdistribution systems.
- Designing and installing temporary distribution systems.
- Installing, controlling and disassembling lighting.
- Managing portable power supplies including maintenance of batteries.
(2) The work that falls within the scope of practice for the trade of entertainment industry power technician is limited to work performed on installations up to, but not including, hardwire connection to the power system of permanent buildings.
- Source: O. Reg. 276/11, s. 14(link)
269E is a non-restricted (voluntary) certified trade. This program does not contain any restricted skill sets under Ontario Regulation 565/99, so a person is not legally required to hold a Certificate of Qualification or be a registered apprentice to perform the trade's skills — but certification is still available and recognized industry-wide.
Certificate of Apprenticeship vs. Certificate of Qualification
- Certificate of Apprenticeship (C of A) — issued to individuals who have completed a registered apprenticeship in Ontario (on-the-job hours signed off + in-school curriculum completed).
- Certificate of Qualification (C of Q) — issued to applicants (apprentices or exam-challenge candidates) who pass the trade's certification exam. See Exam Prep.
- Source: Apprenticeship Training Standard, Definitions, p.9