Most apprenticeship positions are never advertised or are only advertised through informal channels. Entry to apprenticeship requires a job. In the traditional route, the aspiring apprentice, having identified the trade he or she wants to pursue, searches for companies that hire apprentices in that trade and applies directly to the employer, union or joint industry committee for an apprenticeship opening. Alternatively, entry into apprenticeship can be pursued through pre-aprenticeship training.
Millwrights are employed throughout the province in a variety of industries ranging from primary industry to construction and manufacturing. Millwrights are finding some jobs in industrial sectors. The construction sector is expected to expand over the next several years.
Some factories are being refitted with the latest technologies and manufacturing systems, leading to work for millwrights. On balance the growth in employment levels is expected to be slow to the year 2000. However, the age structure of the current workforce in this occupation would suggest that there will be job opportunities resulting from a high level of retirements by the year 2000.
Since computer-controlled equipment is being introduced on production lines, millwrights are increasingly being expected to install, maintain, and repair this "smart" machinery. To do so, millwrights need a higher level of skill, particularly the computer knowledge to deal with the programmable logic controllers which are the "brains" of new equipment.
| 7311 Construction Millwrights and Industrial Mechanics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment Characteristics | Employment by Region | |||
| 1995 Estimated Employment | 29,700 | Region | This Occupation | All Occupations |
| Male | 99 | Northern | 15 | 7 |
| Female | 1 | Southern | 45 | 33 |
| Full-Time | 98 | Eastern | 15 | 21 |
| Part-Time | 2 | Toronto Area | 25 | 39 |
Main Industries of Employment: Manufacturing (68), Construction (6), Communication and Other Utilities (5 Wholesale Trade (5). | ||||
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REHAB HOISTING YOKE AND EYE BAR CHAIN, GARRRISON DAM, NORTH DAKOTA
I was a millwright in Pittsburgh for 5 yrs
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT),
A millwright used to be the guy you'd call to level your new mill
or lathe or whatever and get it ready to work. He was
>> Message 7 of 33
I would have really like to have met some of the previously mentioned
millwrights. In the steel mill I worked in (briefly) the
>> Message 9 of 33
Subject:
>> Message 10 of 33
Subject:
Subject:
>Why do steel mill millwrights use antisieze? To make the burned
off bolt
>> Message 12 of 33
>> Message 14 of 33
i thought a millwright was a carpenter that had a 20 dollar level
instead of a 5 dollar one
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I think you hit the nail on the head there Fred.
Message 17 of 33 Subject:
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Where I came from (UK) the millwrights covered every function
from installing and removing machine tools. They also
GJRepesh wrote:
>> Message 23 of 33
NRA LOH, NRA Life
Hamish wrote:
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:57:43 -0700, ivanveg wrote:
(Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of
Real Property) Address : U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha
District, 215 North 17th
Street, Omaha, NE 68102-4978
Sol. no. : DACW45-00-B-0003
Contact : JAN COOK (CONTRACTUAL) 402/221-4118, MARYLEE
STOBBE (PLANS/SPECS)
402/221-4411, DICK
LYNCH (TECHNICAL MANAGER) 402/221-4171 Due
: 26 Jan, 2000
SOL DACW45-00-B-0003 DUE 012600 POC JAN COOK (CONTRACTUAL)
402/221-4118, MARYLEE STOBBE
http://ebs.nwo.usace.army.mil/ebs/contract.htm. E-MAIL:
Jan.M.Cook,
Jan.M.Cook@usace.army.mil. On or about 27 December 1999,
this office will
issue Invitation for Bids for the construction of Rehab
Hoisting Yoke and Eye Bar Chain, Garrison Dam, ND. Bids will
be
opened on or about 26 January 2000. This solicitation
is unrestricted and open to both large and small business
participation. Site visits have been scheduled for
January 5th, 12th and 19th at 9:00 am. Due to limited access and weather
conditions these dates will be only site visit days offered.
Contractors interested in inspecting the site of the proposed
work need to make reservation by the previous day
by contacting Dale Evenson, Garrison Project, P.O. Box 527,
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Riverdale, North Dakota
58565, Telephone (701) 654-7441. Ext 3220. FAX (701) 654-7538.
(Meeting location will be given when reservations are made.)DO
NOT submit requests for plans and specifications to the
site visit personnel listed above. See "Ordering"
below. The work will include the following: (Approx. quantities)
This
project involves sandblasting and lead paint removal/disposal,
ventilation systems for vinyl systems painting purposes,
and the removal and reassembly of the hoisting yoke/eye bar
assembly parts for three gates. It also involves repair of
existing parts, providing some new parts, welding,
and demonstration of gate operation after each gate's work
is
completed. The prime Contractor must be a millwright
contractor since the most critical aspect of this project involves
millwright work. The estimated construction cost of this
project is between $250,000 and $500,000. Contractor's Quality
Control will be a requirement in this contract. Large
business concerns submitting bids for services exceeding $500,000
or for construction exceeding $1,000,000, shall comply
with Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.219-9 regarding the
requirement for a subcontracting plan. The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers considers the following goals reasonable and
achievable for fiscal year 1999: (a) Small Business: 61.2% of
planned subcontracting dollars. (b) Small Disadvantaged
Business: 9.1% of planned subcontracting dollars.
(c) Women Owned Small Business: 4.5% of planned subcontracting
dollars. The Contractor will be required to commence work
within 10 days after notice to proceed and complete the work
250 calendar days after receipt of Notice to Proceed.
Provisions will be included for liquidated damages in case
of failure
to complete the work in the time allowed. Performance
and payment bonds will be required. The plans and specifications
are available on Compact Disk (CD-ROM) and will be
provided free of charge. It has been determined that the number of
Compact Disks be limited to one (1) per firm. Plans and Specifications
will not be provided in a printed hard copy format.
Contractors may view and/or download this project
from the Internet at the following Internet address:
http://ebs.nwo.usace.army.mil/EBS/AdvertisedSolicitations.asp
Ordering of CD-ROM shall be made through the Internet
address above.] To register on the Omaha District website,
go to
the "Solicitation Registration" section of the synopsis
and click on the link for
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Subject: Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date: 09/14/1999
Author: ivanveg
I worked for several months building an aluminum reduction plant
in Africa. The guy next to me on the plane (Jack)was also
going to the same job, and he was a millwright. He told
me that he will be lining up all of the conveyor belts, machinery
etc.
Well, I am well acquainted with surveying equipment and the inherent
accuracies. We can get resolutions of 0.006" one
hundred feet away. Jack told me he is bringing his own
equipment, because what I quoted above was way too coarse.
Boy was I impressed! He would bounce light beams off of
precision retro-prisms placed at four corners of a 80 foot belt,
and get resolutions way less than 0.001 at those distances.
Pretty impressive stuff! The theory is that any amount of
misalignment must be adjusted to a minimum if you are to maximize
the life of the bearings, pulleys, sheaves, shafts etc. He
claimed that he was a millwright, and that he and associates
spend most of their carreers setting up the new tooling
requried annually by the Detroit car makers. He wore a
white shop coat and it stayed white throughout the day. No ditch
digging or wrenching. He had laborers for that.
My $ 0.02 worth.
Ivan, amateur in California
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Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/17/1999
Author:
gstuff
you do industrial welding /wiring/motor control/heating /making
or building proto-type machines/as the others have said
heavy rigging lay out of new equipment/ he or she should be able
to fix anything in a mill or plant
often also the guy who'd scrape the ways and do a lot of the
refurbishing. He was also often a rigger who would move
the machine from place to place before levelling it.
Technically, dictionary definition, a millwright is a person who builds
mills.
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Mustmaker
millwrights repaired things by burning the foundation bolts off
and then replacing the entire subassembly with one from the
storeroom that an outside contractor had repaired. As far as
aligning or repairing machinery there wasn't a dial indicator in
the whole place. The only positive feedback I got in 6 month
was on my rigging skills, and based on the riggers in the shipyard I was
mediocre at best.
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Why do steel mill millwrights use antisieze? To make the burned
off bolt stubs easier to punch out of the holes.
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Hamish
Of course, us "Canucks" out west, have an "official" explanation
of what millwrights do for a living, get paid, etc., on the
web page supplied by our "gummint". Look at: http://www.tradesecrets.org/ab-index.htm
for the
whole scoop. Cheers! Hamish.
Mike Graham wrote in message
<04CD3.373$%w4.21153@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>...
>On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT), John Jacobs wrote:
>>What is the true definion of millwright? Please advise.
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Hamish
I just tried to go back to the site quoted
http://www.tradesecrets.org/ab-index.htm ) and find that navigation
is not
as simple as that. It requires clicking on "Library" followed
by "Occupational Profiles" The alphatebised list that comes up,
actually shows "Millwright" under the "M", however.
>> Message 11 of 33
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
GAD0GA
>stubs
>easier to punch out of the hole
You should have went into the electrical field, everyone
knows how to punch out an electrician.
http://members.tripod.com/~arkansascody/
Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/14/1999
Author:
Jack Erbes
> Technically, dictionary definition, a millwright is a
person who builds
> mills.
>
And technically mills are factories that make almost anything
and everything so that would mean that a millwright could be
working on nearly anything or everything.
In general, I would say that a millwright is a specialized
machinist/mechanic who installs, maintains, and repairs industrial
machinery. And generally does that without falling back
on various trade specialists (machinists, welders, electricians,
etc.).
Now that the easy question has been answered, lets decide what
a millwright really is.
In my book it is every human from the first primitive man who
hammered an animal dead with a hand held stone forward, but
some disagree with that.
--
Jack in Sonoma, CA, USA (jack@vom.com)
>> Message 13 of 33
Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
10/14/1999
Author:
Britt Smith
The Millwright was the guy who set, mounted and positioned the
big stone wheels for grinding grain is a grist mill. Back in
the days when water was the source of power. This sounds pretty
easy until you consider that if the wheels aren't set
properly, the vertical one will roll off the horizontal one and
someone will get hurt, the stone will break and the mill owner is
really upset. Anyhow, that's my entry in tosay's trivia contest.
UntMaintco wrote in message
<19990914204657.01510.00000398@ng-fh1.aol.com>...
>Hi
> I am sure you will get lots of different
answers. But to me a
millwright
>is a cross between a mechanic and a rigger. Millwrights typically
will
build
>machine foundations ,assemble machines, rig and handle all of
the parts,
level
>the machines. But some times these jobs fall into different
classed such as
the
>riggers and mechanics then the millwrights just wind up doing
all of the
dirty
>work. Digging the pit for a foundation and doing the cement
ect.
>
>Tom
Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/14/1999
Author:
Grady & Patty Gamble
please send flames only at night so i can duck must of them
lol
and yes i am a electrician and no i don't know how it works
my best theory is that all machines run on magic smoke
if the magic smoke goes out of the machine it will not work again
thanks
grady
Mike Graham wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT), John Jacobs wrote:
> >What is the true definion of millwright? Please advise.
> A millwright used to be the guy you'd call to level your
new mill or lathe
> or whatever and get it ready to work. He was often also
the guy who'd
> scrape the ways and do a lot of the refurbishing. He
was also often a
> rigger who would move the machine from place to place before
levelling it.
> Technically, dictionary definition, a millwright is a
person who builds mills.
>
> --
> Mike Graham, mikegraham at sprint dot ca
> Caledon, Ontario, Canada (just NW of Toronto).
>
> Raiser of animals. Weldor of metals. Driver of
off-road vehicles.
> Writer of FAQs. Keeper of the faith, and all around okay
guy.
In article <37DF0AA5.44AE5863@vom.com>,
Jack Erbes
In my book it is every human from the first primitive man who
hammered
> an animal dead with a hand held stone forward, but some disagree
with
> that.
Nope. Don't remember dear old dad pelting critters with rocks.
Not on company time, anyway.
Fred
Message 16 of 33
Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/17/1999
Author:
Robert Bastow
"millwright" is an easy catch-all term for a highly skilled
metal worker. That is someone able to take a set of
drawings or a sketch, make and fit together those parts, into
a functioning entity.
I trained as a Machine Tool Machinist/Toolmaker/Fitter/Repairer,
and went on into Special
Machines/Automation/Robotics/Materials handling/packaging, with
periods spent in Subcontract Machining/prototype building
and
development...yada..yada..yada..YAWN!!
So much easier to say "I am a "millwright"..
teenut
fredcf@my-deja.com wrote:
> That's something that has puzzled me for as long as I can remember.
> My father was a "millwright", but to my knowledge he
never
> made a mill a tool or a die (well, he may have, but that wasn't the
mainstay
> of his work); he made prototype machines and assemblies for
companies
> who patronised his shop. I guess the title ""millwright
is
> just easier to say than "prototype machine and/or sub-assembly
> fabricator".
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date: 09/15/1999
Author: Robert Bastow
repaired, realigned and rebuilt all manner of machine tools and
plant machinery..Generating, hydraulic (BIG stuff).steam
engines..cranes, furnaces, presses and forges, boilers..the whole
gamut.
A highly skilled jack of all trades...Rigger, Fitter, Machinist,
Plant engineer, etc.
Mike Graham wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT), John Jacobs wrote:
A millwright used to be the guy you'd call to level your
new mill or lathe
> or whatever and get it ready to work. He was often also
the guy who'd
> scrape the ways and do a lot of the refurbishing. He
was also often a
> rigger who would move the machine from place to place before
levelling it.
> Technically, dictionary definition, a millwright is a
person who builds mills.
> --
> Mike Graham, mikegraham at sprint dot ca
> Caledon, Ontario, Canada (just NW of Toronto).
>
> Raiser of animals. Weldor of metals. Driver of
off-road vehicles.
> Writer of FAQs. Keeper of the faith, and all around okay
guy.
Message 18 of 33 Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
John Wasser
In article <4162-37DEDF4C-18@newsd-263.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
John
Jacobs
> What is the true definion of millwright? Please advise.
Buy a dictionary. From my $20 "Webster's New Universal
Unabridged Dictionary":
mill'wright (-rit), n. 1. one who makes a
business of planning and building mills or
mill machinery.
2. a worker who installs, attends, or repairs
the shafting, belting, and other machinery in
a mill
mill, n.
5. any of various machines for stamping,
shaping, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces,
coins, etc. or for making something by some
action done again and again.
6. a building or group of buildings with
machinery for manufacturing something; a factory; as, a textile mill.
>> Message 19 of 33
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Mike Graham
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:08:46 GMT, Marvin W. Klotz wrote:
>Regards, Marv - who still thinks an engine and a motor
aren't
>equivalent
Engine converts energy from one form to another before
using it to produce its final output (steam engine, gasoline engine,
diesel engine). A motor doesn't; it uses the energy as
it receives it (electric motor).
Don't bother trying to figure out 'search engine'.
8-)
>> Message 22 of 33
Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Eastburn
Seems logical - A wheelwright makes or fixes wheels.
Martin
--
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Martin Eastburn, Barbara Eastburn
@ home on our computer oldtree@pacbell.net
>
> Up in Northern Minnesota the men who did the work of keeping the iron ore
> processing plants operating and updated were/are called
millwrights. That
seems to agree with some prior posts.
GJR
Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Eastburn
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
Martin Eastburn, Barbara Eastburn
@ home on our computer oldtree@pacbell.net
>
> Of course, us "Canucks" out west, have an "official" explanation
of what
> millwrights do for a living, get paid, etc., on the web
page
supplied by
> our "gummint". Look at:
http://www.tradesecrets.org/ab-index.htm for the
> whole scoop. Cheers! Hamish.
>
> Mike Graham wrote in message
> <04CD3.373$%w4.21153@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>...
> >On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:50:36 -0400 (EDT), John Jacobs wrote:
Message 24 of 33 Subject:
Re: Whats the true definition
of millwright
Date:
09/15/1999
Author:
Mike Graham
>He claimed that he was a millwright, and that he and associates
spend most
>of their carreers setting up the new tooling requried annually
by the
>Detroit car makers. He wore a white shop coat and it stayed
white
>throughout the day. No ditch digging or wrenching.
He had laborers for
>that.
I don't doubt your story one bit, but different trades
have different aspects to it; I worked with a millwright named Larry
at the last shop I worked at. I built big robotic cells
and he installed them. I wouldn't have called him a machinist.
He could
run a few tools, but it was obvious that it wasn't something
he was comfortable with. It was also obvious that he used to
do a lot more than he does now - Larry's an older guy, and he'd
tell stories about how in his apprenticeship he'd be scraping
ways and doing all kinds of stuff like that, but the he hadn't
done anything like that in many years. Larry got dirty as a matter
of course. 8-)
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