Heavy Duty Equipment Technician Training Based Out of Province’s Largest Transportation Training Centre
Do you have an interest in attending a Heavy Duty Equipment Technician
program in order to enter this field, which boasts a variety of career
choices? Have you completed at minimum an Ontario Secondary School
Diploma (OSSD) or General Educational Development (GED) or equivalent?
If so, you should consider applying for Centennial College’s Heavy Duty
Equipment Technician program. Please note that in addition to these
requirements, applicants must also obtain satisfactory results in a
program admission session; and demonstrate experience, mechanical
aptitude and English proficiency. They may also be asked to present a
resumé. Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Ontario and
have an Ontario driver’s license.
Once students have been accepted to the Heavy Duty Equipment Technician
Co-op Apprenticeship, as it is officially known, they will study out of
Ashtonbee Campus. This is Centennial College’s transportation training
hub and houses the province’s largest transportation centre. Being based
at this campus offers Heavy Duty Equipment Technician students an
advantage, as they have access to tools of the trade and the opportunity
to practice fixing actual heavy duty equipment vehicles.
The Heavy Equipment courses
are designed to cover a wide range of topics in the two years students
spend in the program. Complementing variety of topics is a structure
that sees students spend eight months in school, followed by eight
months during a co-op term actually working for an employer on a
full-time basis and a final eight months to program. As such, students
obtain basic knowledge, head out to apply what they have learned and
gain new knowledge that will allow them to master more advanced topics
once they return to school.
Among the areas covered in Heavy Duty Equipment are applied mechanics,
vehicle dynamics as well as component design and repair, as it applies
to the apprenticeship curriculum. In addition, students take courses in
business, English and general education. Lastly, students partake in
courses that are only available at Centennial College and cover advanced
electrical/ electronics, logistics, plus hoisting and rigging.
Many students end up staying on as full-time employees at their co-op
placement upon graduation as they enter the apprenticeship aspect of
their careers. Professional titles of graduates of the Heavy Duty
Equipment Technician program include: heavy-duty equipment technicians,
service managers, service writers or coordinators, equipment company
representatives, or college or industry teachers. Professionals are not
only employed in a variety of positions, but also in a variety of
industries that include: forestry, construction, mining, transportation,
landscaping, land cleaning, farming and more.
