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Apprenticeships
are four-year* training programs consisting of on-the-job training and
related classroom instruction in which workers learn the practical and
theoretical aspects of a highly skilled occupation.
Machine trades apprenticeships are sponsored by individual
employers. Apprenticeship
programs can be registered by the state, which helps ensure the quality
of the training program. DTMA
encourages its members to establish state-registered programs to teach
the high-level skills required of workers to compete in a global
economy. Job
Seekers To
find an employer that offers apprenticeship training, check out the
Office of Apprenticeship Training website:
Go to www.doleta.gov/atels_bat/
and click on "Access to Program Sponsors Database.”
Then click on "Search Program Sponsor Database.”
Select your state, then your county.
You will get a list of companies with programs, sorted by trade.
The site will provide you contact information for each company. Employers Setting up an apprenticeship program. DTMA members interested in setting up a state-registered program can get hands-on help from your local vocational school:
Apprentice graduation.
DTMA conducts an annual ceremony at the February member meeting
to recognize graduates of member companies’ apprenticeship programs. Graduation
criteria: Candidates must
have satisfactorily completed: 8,000
hours or four years of shop training
in any classification you feel they are qualified (for example, tool and
die maker, mold maker, machinist, CNC machinist, programmer, CAD
designer, special machine builder, screw machine operator, EDM, etc.)
AND 576 hours of related classroom training Your
apprentice program does not have to be state registered for your
graduates to receive DTMA’s Certificate of Completion. Graduates of
state-registered programs will receive a certificate from the State of Click
here to download the
Apprentice
Graduation Registration Form. *4
years is typical; some occupations require longer or shorter training
periods.
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