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Oregon Apprenticeship Guide

Job Description
Millwrights install and maintain conveyor systems, escalators, giant electrical turbines and generators. They also maintain machinery in factories and carry out precision work in manufacturing plants.

Working Conditions
Millwrights work indoors and outdoors with machine tools and precision instruments requiring a keen eye for a perfect fit. Millwrights sometimes work to specifications requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch. They work primarily in metal.

Wages
Beginning apprentices start at approximately 75 percent of the journey-level wage. Upon successful completion of required class work and on-the-job hours, wages increase usually every six months, until the journey-level rate is achieved.

Length of Apprenticeship
The apprenticeship lasts four to five years. Apprentices must complete a minimum of 144 related classroom hours per year and 8,000 on-the-job training hours.

Minimum Qualifications
Apprenticeship applicants must be at least 18 years of age. In addition, they must provide proof of high school graduation or general education development (GED) equivalent.

Local apprenticeship committees may require additional qualifications.

These programs are open only to employees of training agents registered with the local apprenticeship committee.

Apprenticeship Committees
Click on the MA# (Master Agreement) number to see the journey wages rate.

MA# 1009	West Linn Paper Co TATC 503-557-6503	Area 1
MA# 1035	PCC Structurals Large Parts Campus JATC 503-777-8840	Area 1
MA# 1037	Oregon Steel Mills TATC 503-286-9651	Area 1
MA# 1054	Stimson Lumber Company Forest Grove In-House JATC 503-357-2131	Area 1
MA# 1093	SP Newsprint Co. TATC 503-538-2151	Area 2
MA# 1117	Boise Cascade JATC 503-397-9416	Area 1
MA# 1119	Precision Castparts Corp JATC 503-794-2055	Area 1
MA# 1121	Blue Heron Paper Company JATC 503-650-4236	Area 1
MA# 1125	Stimson Lumber Company - Clatskanie JATC 503-728-2166	Area 1
MA# 1138	PCC Structurals Deer Creek TATC 503-515-1283	Area 1
MA# 2009	Mid-Willamette Industrial TATC 541-917-4621	Area 1, 2
MA# 2018	Cascade Steel TATC 503-434-3201	Area 1
MA# 2038	Georgia Pacific TAC 541-336-8389	Area 2
MA# 3012	Lane County Industrial Maintenance Mechanic JATC 541-746-8411	Area 3
MA# 4007	Douglas/Coos/Curry Industrial JATC 541-440-4605	Area 4
MA# 5002	Jackson County Industrial Trades ATC 541-245-7900	Area 4, 5
MA# 6011	Blue Mountain TATC 541-278-5854	Area 6
MA# 6018	Northwest Aluminum TATC 541-298-0855	Area 7
MA# 7004	Central Oregon TATC 541-383-7410	Area 7
MA# 7016	Klamath Basin Industrial TATC 541-882-3521 x235	Area 5

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