Employers

Are you facing workforce challenges and thinking about succession planning? As an employer in Nova Scotia’s construction industry, you realize the need to develop and retain our future workforce.

Building Futures for Youth (BFY) is a competitive paid summer co-op program that offers grade 10 and 11 students across the province the opportunity to safely explore careers in the construction sector through paid summer work, so that they can make informed career choices regarding their future occupations. Co-op placements provides academic credit for structured job experience with a mentor and provide the support of a supervising teacher. By simultaneously hiring students as a paid employee, they are immersed in a more authentic learning experience and are motivated to stay engaged.

Why You Should Hire a Building Futures for Youth Student

As an employer in Nova Scotia’s construction industry, you realize the need to develop and retain our future workforce. By investing in a 200-hour employment term, you can:
• Identify potential future employees and invest in your own company’s succession plan
• Support local youth in construction industry career exploration
• Establish lasting relationships with schools, teachers, students and their families in your community
• Receive publicized recognition for supporting the BFY program
• Gain a young summer employee who is vetted, safety trained, motivated and prepared to work
• Receive CANS member incentives such as web advertising, education credits, printing services, member events, and many more

All Building Futures For Youth Students Are Ready To Work

Before a BFY student starts work with your company. They will be:

• Pre-screened through a rigorous application process
• Motivated and well prepared towork safely
• A minimum of 16 years of age with a valid SIN
• Registered as a pre-apprentice and will not count towards the Journeyperson/ apprenticeship ratio at your company
• Issued temporary work permits by the Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency for compulsory certified trades
• Provided safety training at NSCC and have their own PPE (safety boots, hard hat and safety glasses)
• Certified in OH&S, WHMIS, First Aid/CPR, Fall Protection, and Staging and Scaffolding Awareness.

Your Commitment

• You have the option to attend student interviews to meet with potential employees, or you can save time and trust BFY to match you with the right candidate.
• Students are available to work in July and August, and the program is a 200-hour commitment.
• Since the program is also a Co-op, there will need to be a Mentor assigned to supervise the student, and a Teacher will be checking in periodically.
• We suggest fair market wages, but salary amounts are the decision of the employer. The student must be added to your WCB but is also covered by SIP (School Insurance Program).
• The student is subject to the same rules of work as all other employees. Employment can be terminated at any time if expectations are not being met

Wage Subsidy Program

Recognizing that some companies may have thedesire but lack the resources to become a Host Employer, BFY has initiated a Wage Subsidy Program. Our goal is to help provide meaningful career-related work experiences in the construction industry. If you would like to offer a summer position but funding is an issue, talk to us about how we can help.

PREVIOUS HOST EMPLOYERS

Since its original pilot in Halifax in 2008, there have been more than 320 BFY Host Employers who have helped youth on their journeys towards a career in construction.
Whether your company has hosted one student or more, hosted for one year or more, we’re thankful you’ve given youth in Nova Scotia the chance to explore a career in the construction industry.
Our Champion Host Employers are those companies who have gone above and beyond in their commitment to the BFY program – some have been Host Employers for 12 years, while others have taken more than 40 students over the years!

Dexter Construction Company Ltd.

Bird Construction Group

Graves Electrical

Lindsay Construction

Black & McDonald Limited

Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education

Dept. of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal

Ocean Contractors Limited

rcs Construction Inc.

Strait Regional Centre for Education

Aluma Systems Inc.

Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education

Department of National Defence – FMF Cape Scott

Flynn Canada Ltd.

Halifax Regional Centre for Education

NSCC Lunenburg

Pinaud Drywall and Acoustical

Roscoe Construction Ltd.

Zutphen Contractors Inc.

A.B. Mechanical Ltd.

A.F. Theriault & Son Ltd.

AAA Plumbing & Heating

ABCO Industries Limited

Aberdeen Paving Limited

Able Electric

Acadian Seaplants Ltd.

Access Contracting Ltd.

Acker & Doucette Surveying Inc.

Advanced Polymer Coatings

Affordable Quality Plumbing

Al Tobey Construction

All County Construction

All East Mechanical Contractors

All Star Rebar (Nova Scotia) Ltd.

All Steel Builders East Ltd

Allsteel Coatings Ltd

Aluma Systems Inc.

Alva Construction Limited

Alvin Co. Ltd.

AMD Landscaping

AMEC Environmental

AML Painting Limited

Annapolis Valley Air Management

Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education

Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education Operations

Apollo Masonry

Argus Renovations

Arsenault Brothers Construction

Asbestos Abatement Ltd.

Atlantic Road Construction & Paving

Atlantica Mechanical Contractors Inc.

AVRCE Operations

Axeman Landscaping

B Richardson Construction

  1. Spicer Construction Ltd

B.D. Stevens Limited

Backman Vidcom

Baker Mechanical

Balodis Inc.

Bayview Excavators

Buildon Construction Limited

Bear River Plastic Welding Ltd.

Beaton Mechanical

Bernie Smith Electric

Betty Ann Design

Bev’s Carpentry

Big Sky Builders

Birchwood Enterprises Ltd.

BIRD Construction

Black & MacDonald

Blackstone Construction

Blue Ridge Builders Inc.

Blueline New Holland

Bluenose Well Drilling Ltd.

Blunden Construction (1995) Limited

Bourgeois Boat Building Inc.

Bower and Son Carpentry

Brad Goodsell Design Build

Brett Hazel Carpentry

Brewster’s Well Drilling

Brilun Construction Limited

Bruces Chevrolet Buick GMC

Burke Construction

Butt’s Auto Service

C & S Snow Removal (Reddick Bros Masonry)

Cabot Cape Breton (Cabot Links)

Cadtech Computer Drafting Services Ltd.

Caledonia Electrical Services

Calvin MacDonald Formwork

Cape Breton Drywall

Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Cape Breton West Construction

Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education

Caper Developments Ltd.

Caribou Island Electric Ltd.

Carman’s Construction

Carvery’s Construction Ltd.

CBVRCE Operations

Celtic Construction (Bird Construction)

Central Equipment Inc

Ceres Halifax

Charles Stewart Electrical

Cherubini Metal Works Limited

Cheticamp Welding & Machine Shop Ltd.

Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education

Chute’s Carpentry

CKG Elevator Ltd

Clearwater Seafoods LP

CME Group

Coastal Woodworkers

Cobequid Prefabricated Wall Panels Ltd.

Comeau Refrigeration

Comeau’s Sea Foods Limited

Con & Con Construction Co. Ltd.

Cormack Builders

Corning Electrical

Costin Paving & Contracting Limited

Covey Island Boatworks

CP Distributors

Creek Ocean Construction Ltd.

Crossroads Cycle Shop

Cunningham Construction

Custom Millwork Atlantic Inc. (Design Build)

D-MAC Construction

D.J. MacLean & Sons Carpentry Ltd.

D’Ambroise Painting

Daniel Rogers Construction

Defense Construction Canada

Delmar Construction

Department of National Defense – FMF Cape Scott

Department of Transportation & Infrastructure Renewal

Dexter Construction

DF Beaton Service Station

Digby Pines Golf & Resort

Diggers Carpentry

DJ Excavation Inc.

Donegal Masonry Limited

DORA Construction

Doug & Daughter Welding

DTK Turbo Electrical

Duncan’s Plumbing Heating & Filtration

Eagle Crest Golf Course

Eassons Transport Group

East Coast Countertops Ltd.

East Coast Metal Fabrication

East Isle Construction

East River Shipyard Ltd.

EASTCUT Wood Building Solutions

Eastern Welding Ltd.

Eastwing Electrical Ltd

Ed’s Hydraulic & Marine Services

Element Construction

Ellis Don Corporation

Elmsdale Landscaping Limited

England Paving & Contracting Ltd

ENJ Millworks

Enslow Electric

Evangeline Transport Ltd

Fairline Electrical

Fire Stop Enterprises

FJ Boyle Construction

Flynn Canada Ltd.

Fowler Construction Services Limited

Fridays Concrete

G.C Baxter Plumbing & Heating Limited

G.J. Cahill & Co. (1979) Ltd.

G3 Galvanizing

Garian Construction Ltd.

Garry Belliveau Construction & Excavation Ltd.

Gary Scott Elevator

Gaudet Building Contractors Ltd. (GBCL)

Gerald Mitchell Contracting Ltd.

Gil-Son Construction Ltd.

GillanGuy Construction

Gillis Residential Renovators

Glass Brothers Construction Inc

Global Construction (Maritimes)

Good All Round Renovations

Goodfellow Inc.

Googoos Landscaping & General Contracting

Gouthro’s Heavy Truck & Auto Repair

Graham Construction Ltd.

Graves Electrical Ltd.

Greg Burke Electrical

Guildfords Inc.

Halifax International Airport

Halifax Regional Centre for Education

HalliWood Construction LTD.

Harbour Foundations Ltd.

Harlow Construction Limited

Hart’s Service Centre XTR

Hawboldt Industries (1989) Ltd.

Hazeldale Milling & Trucking

Hearthstone Hospitality

Hercules Machining & Millwright

Higgins Construction Ltd. (a division of Lindsay Construction)

Hilltop Electrical & Plumbing

Hiltz & Seamone Co. Ltd

Hodgson’s Chipping Ltd.

Horton & Boyd Construction

HRM Parks Department

HRS Industrial

Hunters Carpentry

I Love Renovations

I. G Construction

Ian J Tate Plumbing and Heating Ltd

Ice Man AC & Maintenance Ltd.

Ideal Electric Limited

Innovacorp

Iron Dog Inc.

Iron Maple Constructors Inc.

Irving Equipment Limited

Island Jax Construction

Island Machining Ltd

Island Steele

J.A. Borden Enterprises Ltd.

J.C. Mechanical Contractors Ltd.

JBF Carpentry Contracting

JDE Electric

Jeff Butler Home Renovation

JETCO Contracting Inc.

Jim Winfield Carpentry

Joey Poirier Construction

John Morrison Contracting

Joneljim Concrete Construction

Josh Lynch’s Contracting

Just Add Color

Just for Kicks Recreational

KAL Construction

Kel-Greg Enterprises Ltd.

Kelly Villneuve Salvage

Ken Flett Roofing

Kent Building Supplies

Kevin McCully Properties

Klad Building Armour Ltd.

KNUEY General Contracting

Kona Cranes

KWR Plumbing & Heating Ltd.

L & B Electric Ltd.

L.E. Cruickshanks Sheet Metal Ltd.

Lafarge Canada Inc.

LaHave Paving

Lahey Glass

Land & Sea

LCM Trucking

Leigh Weare Wiring Services

Lenihan Paving

Leonard MacPhee Construction

Lindsay Construction

Links at Brunello

Lloyoll Custom Building

Logan Drilling Group

Lorne Aucoin Renovations

LP Electric

LRD Excavating and Welding Ltd.

LSF Welding Services Ltd.

Lunenburg County Shipwrights

M & M Sheet Metal

M.R.S. Construction Ltd.

Mackinnon & Olding Ltd.

MacNeil Electrical

Mahon’s Mechanical Ltd.

Mahoney Excavation & Landscaping Inc.

Manzer Construction

MARCO Group Ltd.

Marener Industries Ltd

Marid Industries Limited

Marine Atlantic

Mariner Forge Enterprises Ltd

Maritime Pressure Works Ltd.

Mark Bevis Construction

Mark Oickle Construction

Markland Associates Ltd

MasterTech HVAC and Plumbing

Matthews Carpentry

McAdoo’s Landscaping & Excavating

McCarthy’s Roofing Ltd.

McLeod Safety Services Ltd.

McNally Construction Inc.

Monk Renos

Moore Enterprises

Municipal Ready Mix Limited

Municipality of Chester

Municipality of the County of Inverness

Munroe & Gillespie Contracting Ltd

Murray Hatt Electrical Services

ND Muise Construction

New Design Plumbing and Heating

New Germany Home Hardware Building Centre

New Minus Sheet Metal

Niche Design Consultants Inc.

NJS Construction

Norm Smith Electrical Ltd.

North Air Windows & Doors

North Riverside Welding Ltd.

Northeast Nutrition

Northern Contracting Limited

Nova Construction Company Ltd.

Nova Doors and Windows

Nova Dry Basements

Nova Millwrights

Nova Wood Products Ltd.

NSCC Burridge

NSCC Kingstec

NSCC Lunenburg

NSCC Marconi

NSCC Shelburne

NSCC Waterfront

O’Regan’s

Oblique Construction & Design Ltd

Ocean Contractors Limited

Oickles Electrical

On Deck Construction

Orchard Creek Construction

Oxford Frozen Foods

Paramount Electric

Parsons ICF Construction

Paul Davis Restoration Cape Breton

Paul’s Woodworking & Cabinetry Ltd.

PCL Constructors Canada Inc.

Peach Masonry Ltd.

Peter Langille’s Plumbing & Heating

Peter S. Conrod Construction Ltd.

Peter Watson Construction

Pinaud Drywall & Acoustical Ltd.

Plyform Construction

PMC Roofing Limited

PNL Communications Group

Point Michaud Construction

Pomerleau Inc.

Portable Welders Ltd.

Porterbuilt Carpentry and Construction Services

Precision Concrete Services Limited

Presidential Ventilation Systems Ltd.

Pro-Tech Electric

Quality Machining Services Ltd

R. Eisner Contracting Ltd.

R.D.L. Construction Ltd.

RA Jamieson Contracting

Raw Steel Fabrication Ltd.

RC Weare Logging Ltd.

RCCL- Ralph Connor Company Limited

rcs Construction Inc.

RDL Construction

Rendan Fabricators

Response Plumbing & Heating Ltd.

Retire-Well Renovations

Rhyno’s Ltd.

Richard, Jamieson General Contracting Ltd

Risser Construction Ltd.

RKO Steele Ltd.

Robby’s Tractor-Trailer Services Limited

Robert Archibald Construction

Rocky Knoll Farms

Rod Christmas Plumbing

Rodney Enterprises Ltd.

Roger Chandler Renovations

Ron Chisholm Hydro-Seeding Ltd

Rondeau Refrigeration Ltd.

Roscoe Construction Ltd.

ROYMAR Builders Ltd.

RPH Distributors Ltd.

Ruggles Contracting

Samson Enterprises Ltd.

Sancton Group Inc.

Scotia Metal Products Inc.

Scott and Stewart Forestry Consultants Ltd.

Seacrest Electrical

Service Master of Cape Breton

Shamar Contracting Inc.

Shep-Com Construction Ltd.

Slaunwhite Insulation Services

Smith Family Farms

Sorensen Electric Ltd.

South Shore Glass Limited

South Shore Regional Centre for Education

Spar Marine

Springside Electric

SRD International Ltd.

Steve Doyle Construction

Steve Mackin Construction

Strait Regional Centre for Education

Sunbuilt Contracting Ltd

Sunrise Enterprises

Superior Truss

Superport Marine

Sydney Millwork Ltd.

System Care Cleaning & Restoration

Target Hydraulic & Machine Works Ltd.

Tate Plumbing

TCB Riverview Construction

Terra Firma Development Corporation

TG Welding & Fabrication Limited

TMC Contracting

TML Construction Ltd.

TN Trenholm Construction

Tony Coady Alarms

Totally Electric Ltd.

Town of Digby Public Works

Town of Parrsboro Public Works

Town of Truro Public Works

Traditional Cabinetry and Woodworks

Trailsmen Motel Maintenance

Transit Plumbing & Heating

Travis Kaizer Contracting

Travis Mills Construction

Tri-County Regional Centre for Education

Tri-County Truck & Marine

Tried and True Builders Ltd.

Trifos Design Consultants

Troy Life & Fire Safety Ltd.

Turf Masters Landscaping Ltd.

Twin Cities Electrical

Twin City Alarms Limited

Twin City Painting (1979) Limited

Ultra Alarm

United Rentals

Van Oirschot Builders

Veinot Metal Fabrication Ltd.

Velocity Machining & Welding Inc.

Ven-Rez Products

Verge Technologies

Versatile Ventilation

VistaCare Communications Services of Canada Inc.

W. Bird & Company Limited (Bird-Stairs)

Wagmatcook Band Council

Wagner’s Refrigeration

Walker’s Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Wallace Construction

Washmill Construction Ltd.

Wassink Home Improvements

Waterview Machine Works Limited

Waycobah First Nation Band

Weeks Construction Limited

White Rock Mechanical Services Ltd.

Whitestone Developments

Wilkie Mechanical Inc.

Will-Kare Paving & Contracting Ltd.

Willow Lodge Maintenance Department

Windsor Sales & Rentals

Winmar

Withrow’s Farm Market

Woodsmith Construction

Zinck’s Mechanical Insulation Limited

Zutphen Contractors Inc.

Zwicker Masonry

Looking for more information?

Tanya Reddick Clayton

BFY Program Lead

Tel: 902-456-6444

Email: treddick@cans.ns.ca

Barb Minard

BFY Program Lead

Tel: 902-817-5214

Email: bminard@cans.ns.ca