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HIGHLY SKILLED CONSTRUCTION MECHANIC
Millwrighting is an occupation that demands precision and high skill.
In the old days, before heavy metal machinery, Millwrights carved out gears and shafts from wood for mills and small industrial plants.
Today Millwrights are craftsman who make possible the mass production at automobile plants, the airplane assembly and manufacturing industry, paper and food production line machinery, and nuclear power plant machinery.
If you like to work with machine tools and precision instruments, and have a keen eye for the perfect fit, you might consider being a millwright carpenter. Millwrights work to specifications requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch.
It is the Millwright who installs and aligns the heavy industrial machinery. Millwright carpenters are responsible for fabricating, erecting, installing, assembling, aligning and adjusting industrial machinery such as conveyor systems, cyclotrons, giant electric generators or turbines, escalators and monorails.
The Millwright also insures that the machinery they install operates effectively.
Millwrights are familiar with arithmetic and geometry because their work demands the application of such principles. Millwrights work from blue prints to install the industrial machinery and put their knowledge and expertise to work drilling, welding and bolting the components.
To prepare for a future as a Millwright classes in mathematics, drafting and mechanical drawing or metal and industrial shop would be advantageous. Courses in construction applications or construction technology are helpful.
As a Union Millwright apprentice you can earn as you learn and receive the specialized training necessary to become a highly skilled construction mechanic!
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