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3.1.4 Trades that Assemble

John Fucsko

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Welcome to Intro to Trades Mr. Fucsko jfucsko@ccaeducate.me 724-473-3977 x 27384

The Plan for Today: Unit 3 3.1.4 Trades that Assemble Goals:

Learners can:

  • Identify careers that deal with the assembly of goods and products
  • Summarize how to obtain a career in manufacturing trades
  • List the rewards for each of the manufacturing trades career

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:40-1:25 pm

Warm Up: Each day we will begin with a question or activity to get us started!

Vocabulary

  • Infrastructure
  • Machinist
  • Manufacturing
  • Powerline Installer
  • Welder

Think About It...

  • Margo finds college options for trade fields in her research. She learns she could get a degree in mechanical engineering, though it's less hands-on, or a bachelor's degree to become a construction manager faster. Now, she’s debating between college or vocational school.

Why should Margo choose trade school over a degree or a degree over trade school?

Hands-on Careers in Trades

Building Trades

  • Constructing a Home or a Building
  • It’s about putting materials together to build something new
  • Can be on a small scale or large scale
Manufacturing
  • It is building products on a large scale using manual labor and machinery.
  • It typically occurs within factories and is responsible for almost all the products you can buy at a store.
  • The manufacturing setting provides many opportunities for individuals looking for fulfilling careers.

Manufacturing Has a Home for Everyone

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Machinist

Machinery in manufacturing continues to become more advanced and efficient over time. What used to be more labor-intensive tasks now require some education to become a machinist.

A lathe machine quickly turns wood or metal so a machinist can cut away pieces to make them symmetrical.

  • Operates machine tools to assemble or modify
  • Go to a vocational school to get certification
  • Get an apprenticeship
  • Learn on the job
  • Typical average salary for machinists is $45,800

A grinding machine uses a spinning wheel to remove small amounts of material from a surface, usually metal.

A planer machine is used to flatten, smooth, and level pieces of wood.

A drilling machine is used to drill some holes in wood or metal.

Hobbing Machine!

Question...

Trade versus Degree

Do you think Margo would be better off choosing to be a Mechanical Engineer or Machinist? Why?

Mechanical Engineer versus Machinist

2021 Infrastructure Bill

In 2021, Congress and the White House passed the largest infrastructure bill in United States history.

Infrastructure is the basic physical things that a society needs to work properly, like buildings, roads, and power supply systems

The infrastructure bill will add 700,000 new jobs in manufacturing, construction, and transportation.

Of those 700,000 new jobs, the demand for the next two trades we will discuss will increase as more bridges are constructed and more power lines are installed

Welder

  • Fuses together pieces of metal or cuts into the metal with machinery such as laser cutters.
  • Skill to melt and fuse the pieces as one
  • Welders attend a vocational school
  • Some may learn on the job.
  • The job outlook is currently lower than average
  • The new bill will give rise to many more opportunities
  • The average salary for welders is $39,400.

Powerline Installers

  • Install or fix public electrical wiring
  • Install powerline poles and transmission towers
  • Requires a lot of work from heights and dangling from harnesses
  • Safety procedures from electrical currents is MUST
  • Love working outdoors and the adventure of their job
  • Average of $75,000
  • The job outlook is lower than normal

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned:

  • To identify careers that deal with the assembly of goods and products
  • How to obtain a career in manufacturing trades
  • To list the rewards for each of the manufacturing trades careers
  • In an upcoming lesson, you will learn about trades that work with heavy machinery and you will take a quiz on Topic 1: Getting ”Hands-On” with Trades.