Plumbing

Program Overview

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Architecture and Construction career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher order reasoning and problem solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Architecture and Construction career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to reading construction documents, understanding building codes in the pipe trades, plumbing pipe cutting and joining skills and plumbing layout and installation.

This program is eligible for fulltime enrollment.

Program Admission Requirements

AGE: 16 years or older

BASIC SKILLS LEVEL: Computations (Math) 9.0 & Communications (Reading & Language Arts) 9.0

*Or meet other basic skill requirements

Admission Requirements

Industry Certifications

Employment opportunities

The purpose of the programs is to prepare students for employment or advanced training in a variety of pipe occupations to include pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters.

What You'll learn

Plumber Helper
Describe career and training opportunities in the pipe trade industry.
Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the pipe trade industry.
Identify the use and care of basic tools in the pipe trade industry.
Demonstrate the importance of health, safety and environmental management systems in organizations and their importance to organizational performance and regulatory compliance.
Demonstrate basic mathematics knowledge and skills.
Demonstrate science knowledge and skills.
Read and interpret construction documents.
Read and interpret current pipe trade codes.
Residential Plumber
Demonstrate knowledge of basic plumbing skills.
Cut and join pipes.
Demonstrate knowledge of plumbing codes.
Read and interpret construction documents and specifications.
Layout and coordinate a job.
Layout and install, discuss and simulate, the installation of the first rough (underground).
Layout and install, discuss and simulate, the installation of the second rough (first floor & above).
Layout and install, discuss and simulate trim out plumbing.
Explain the importance of employability and entrepreneurship skills.
Commercial Plumber
Discuss and simulate the installation of water heating and circulating systems.
Discuss and simulate the installation of interceptors and separators.
Discuss and simulate the installation of a storm drainage system.
Explain the principles of backflow cross and connection control.

Why Choose Lively?

Students in the workforce

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BUILDING TRADES & CONSTRUCTION ENROLLMENT INCREASE '25-'25

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HVAC ENROLLMENT INCREASE '24-'25

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FAQs

Common questions about our program.

Employers of graduates

meet your instructors

Greg Mathis

Plumbing Instructor

mathisg@leonschools.net

Program Requirements

Total Clock Hours: 1080

OCP	Course Number	Course Title	Course Length	SOC Code
A	BCV0508	Helper, Plumber, Pipefitter	360	47-3015
B	BCV0540	Residential Plumber	240	47-2152
C	BCV0562	Commercial Plumber	240	47-2152
D	BCV0596	Plumbing Applications	240	47-2152

See the Course Catalog for detailed program cost and fee information.