Our apprenticeship program produces competent, literate, and well-trained machinist (tool makers) who have the skills to join fellow Hydromat associates in building the industries’ finest precision transfer machines. The program will expose you to all fundamental areas of milling, turning, grinding, and advanced CNC applications. You will have the opportunity to train in a 6000-hour program focused on achieving a Journeyman Machinist card (fully accredited by the DOL and NTMA) and earn NIMS credentials for Machining Level I & II.

In-person and online training courses in AutoCAD and other computer design programs for manufacturing disciplines.  On a state-by-state basis, participants are able to work with programs such as Workforce Development (DWD), Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Workforce Investment Act (WIA), and Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).

An online youth-safety training program authorized by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Through this affordable, informative and innovative training, students learn to recognize potential safety and health hazards pertaining to all 16 national career clusters that can prepare students for college or a career pathway. CareerSafe offers a variety of low-cost workplace safety programs including OSHA 10-hour training designed for specific pathways. This program covers core topics relevant to basic safety in any workplace.

This 4-week course will provide students with the basic industry certifications required to work in today’s high growth job market. Training includes orientation to the high growth industries, workplace vocational math, and introduction to blueprint reading, precision measuring, pc fundamentals, osha-10 certification, and forklift certification.

This 8-week course will teach students trade principles and the basics of refrigeration, including a description of what is taking place inside each of the main parts of a system. Students learn to read a temperature pressure chart, apply it to systems using different refrigerants and evaluate the system using their gauges. Also covered are basic electrical principles in a theory/shop format. Students begin with the nature of electricity and progress to electrical safety, electrical values, and generation of electricity, electrical circuits, electrical meters and wiring diagrams. All students are enrolled in Ranken Technical College.