Millwright

About Millwright
An Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) installs, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs mechanical equipment and industrial machinery in production plants, factories, and industrial buildings. They are responsible for the safe and efficient operation of industrial equipment and machinery that they install.

The typical duties of a Millwright include, but not limited to reading diagrams and schematic drawings to determine work procedures; operating rigging equipment to place heavy machinery and parts; cutting and assembling metal components using welding equipment; fabricating, modifying and overhauling equipment; troubleshoot hydraulic, pneumatic and programmable logic controls; perform preventive and operational maintenance using procedures such as vibration analysis; repair or replace defective parts when necessary.

What is an Apprentice
An apprentice is someone who is learning a trade by working under the guidance of experienced skilled workers of that trade, called journeypersons. It is on-the-job training where you earn while you learn and you are paid a wage from the first day you become an apprentice. Apprentices are usually paid at about 65% of the journeyperson's rate of pay upon graduating and starting work, but the wages are increased periodically as the apprentice attains higher level of competencies and completes more courses.
It takes about three or four years to learn the trade, but remember, your Apprenticeship training could be FREE if you become a registered apprentice.

Course Outline

• ENTRY LEVEL (1st Year)
• Hand Tools
• Portable Power Tools
• Blueprint Reading & Sketching
• Equipment Assembly Blueprints
• Mechanical Installation Blueprints
• Schematics Advanced
• Rigging
• Drills, Taps and Reamers
• Measuring & Layout
• Piping Components
• Power Metal Saws
• Pedestal Grinders
• Bearings
• Fasteners
• Metallurgy
• Static and Dynamic Seals
• Coupling & Clutches
• Belt and Chain Drive Systems
• Gear Drive Systems
• Lubrication Practices
• Non-Positive Displacement Pumps
• Positive Displacement Pumps
• Electrical Fundamentals
• Hydraulics I
• Oxy-Fuel Welding
• Work Term
• Basic Math
• WHMIS*
• First Aid

Millwright Student Tool List

RELATED COURSES

• Workplace Communications
• Customer Service
• Quality Assurance / Quality Control
• Introduction to Computers
• Workplace Skills
• Job Search Techniques
• Entrepreneurial Awareness

Advanced level
Registered Apprentices (through Department of Education, Industrial Training Division) receive funding for the advanced blocks of training, pending they have attained the required work experience and are EI eligible.

BLOCK 2

• Material Handling Systems
• Compressors
• Hydraulics II
• Penumatics
• Electric Arc Welding

BLOCK 3

• Coupling Alignment
• Metal Lathe
• Machinery Installation
• Milling Machines & Alignment

BLOCK 4

• Dynamic Balancing
• Boilers
• Prime Movers I
• Preventative & Pre-Internal Combustion Engine
  dictive Maintenance

Prime Movers II (Turbines)
Vibration Analysis

Upon completing all the requirements outlined in the Provincial Plan of Training for the Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) Apprenticeship program, apprentices may challenge the Interprovincial Red Seal Exam.