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UPDATE: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) 

To all tradespeople, B-Pressure Welders, Pipefitters, Boilermakers, Journeypersons, and Apprentices: 2026 will be another busy year, with lots of work on offer and we look forward to welcoming you to the APTIM team! All labour requests will be posted at the below union websites. Apply Today!

APTIM Services Canada is currently offering work for:

  • Syncrude RMWB: Fall Major Turnaround (August - October)

About APTIM Services Canada

Since the 1960s, APTIM has been a critical enabler of business continuity at the largest oilsands facilities in the world. From integrated turnarounds, to routine mechanical maintenance, APTIM’s knowhow-based constructability planning and collaborative approach on sustaining capital projects has led to a predictable execution with optimized shutdown windows and increased annual asset availability for our clients. Our diverse mechanical scope of work has encompassed the repair, modification, and specialty welding of vessels, tanks, exchangers, furnaces, structural, piping systems and fabrication for facilities throughout Canada.

Every year, APTIM successfully executes turnarounds with our key supervision and 400 or more skilled tradespeople. In the spring of 2018, APTIM executed its largest turnaround in our history peaking at 1,800 craft and more than +1,000,000 man-hours. APTIM’s drive for continuous improvement and our highly skilled supervision combined with a systematic execution translate to exceptional productivity that is unmatched in the industry.

From its high value reliability engineering center of excellence to multi-disciplinary constructability expertise, APTIM develops and executes proven reliability and maintenance engineering tactics, coupled with predictive maintenance, to reduce our clients’ sustaining capital costs.

Services Provided:

  • Turnarounds
  • Maintenance
  • Reliability & Design Engineering
  • Constructability Planning
  • Fabrication
  • Construction
  • Inspections

Recent Canadian Safety Achievement Awards

Six Perfect Record Awards from National Safety Council

Units and/or facilities that have completed a period of at least 12 consecutive months without incurring an occupational injury or illness that resulted in lost time or fatality.

  • Suncor Turnarounds (2023 - 2024)
  • Syncrude Turnarounds (2023 - 2024)
  • Syncrude Maintenance (2023 - 2024)
  • Syncrude Projects (2023 - 2024)
  • Celanese Turnaround Support (2023 - 2024)
  • Sherwood Park Fabrication Shop (2023 - 2024)

Three Safety Leadership Awards from National Safety Council

Organizations that have achieved five or more consecutive years without an occupational injury or illness resulting in lost time.

  • Suncor Turnarounds (2019 - 2024)
  • Syncrude Projects (2019 - 2024)
  • Sherwood Park Fabrication Shop (2019 - 2024)

Two Million Hours Awards from National Safety Council

Organizations that have completed a period of at least 1 million consecutive work hours without an occupational injury or illness resulting in lost time.

  • Suncor Turnarounds (2019 - 2024)
  • Syncrude Turnarounds (2019 - 2024)

Four Tripartite Zero (Recordable) Injury Turnaround Awards

Turnaround and outage work presents a unique set of challenges for maintenance industry stakeholders. This award recognizes Clients, Signatory Employers and Local Unions who execute high volumes of craft hours in short turnaround windows without a recordable injury. 

  • Syncrude Fall Iyinisowin Project (2025)
  • Suncor (2023)
  • Syncrude Spring Mamawi Project (2022)
  • Suncor Fall Turnaround Event (2020)

365 Daily Maintenance Award

Industrial plants across the country often require year-round daily maintenance to ensure efficiency in their operations and the safety of their personnel. This award showcases stakeholders who have executed long-term maintenance at industrial plants for 365 days or greater without having a recordable injury. This award was based on Syncrude projects in 2023. 

General Presidents' Safety Excellence Award

General Presidents’ Safety Excellence Award from General Presidents’ Maintenance Committee (GMMC) for Canada and National Maintenance Council (NMC) for Canada. The award was based on more than 238,110 hours of turnaround work in the Wood Buffalo Region in 2020 with no recordable injuries.

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