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Our company has been continuously providing HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR TRAINING for more than 14 years now. We have seen literally dozens of other heavy equipment operator training schools come and go in that time. We have found, through consultation with industry and with students (both from our school and from these failed schools) that in order for people to acquire and maintain employment as heavy equipment operators, their operating ability has to be at a high enough level that an employer can put that person in a piece of heavy equipment and have them produce work that they can justify charging the required hourly rate for that piece of equipment.
One of the biggest complaints we’ve heard about typical heavy equipment operator training is that a lot of schools don’t provide students with enough practical hands on training ( Seat Time ) in machines to make them employable. It is for this reason that we have always stressed the importance of potential heavy equipment operators getting this valuable seat time from whichever school they attend. Our training has always been based entirely on students receiving this seat time while they are in attendance with us so that when they leave our training facility, they are typically very employable. It is during this practical hands on training that we have always taught our students the theory that they require to operate the equipment efficiently and safely and to accomplish the various tasks that we have them perform.
Heavy equipment operator training and apprenticeships have to be looked at differently than other trades that have long been learned through apprenticeships. A typical apprentice in a trade such as carpentry or plumbing will be required to use hand and power tools and will perform work that will allow them to be under relatively close supervision of a journeyman from that trade. An apprentice heavy equipment operator, on the other hand will quite often be at the controls of equipment that are commonly worth several hundred thousand dollars or more and are only fitted with one seat. When operating, these machines are expected to accomplish a certain amount of work to warrant the hourly rate that must be charged for them. It is for this reason that employers commonly refuse to hire people that don’t already have enough seat time to allow them to already be safe and efficient.
It is our intent to continue training people with this hands on approach to learning the required theory and gaining the actual operating proficiency that is required for them to gain employment, and to keep themselves and others around them safe.
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