UBC Millwright Training
UBC millwrights are known throughout North America as the best trained and most well-prepared technicians for any project. Training lies at the heart of it all.
Training Is the Key
Contractors who employ Millwright Regional Council have access to unlimited, ongoing training for any project — according to standards that produce the same highly skilled labour regardless of location. Each year, we invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in training our members, from first-year apprentices to superintendents.
Journeypersons benefit from apprenticeships and skill-upgrade classes to help keep them on the cutting edge of innovations in materials and techniques. Educated, experienced foremen and superintendents receive specialized training programs designed to sharpen their supervisory skills — we build on a millwright’s on-the-job experience by adding leadership skills to help them motivate workers, communicate effectively and solve problems. We even offer customized training if a project needs it, and we provide training onsite, if that’s what it takes.
Our Curriculum
Ensure the highest level of service and expertise, the least amount of production downtime and the safest jobsite practices by staffing your project with UBC millwrights. We have the training, skills and experience to complete the work safely, quickly, properly. Our training covers a wide range of industries and disciplines, and we continuously upgrade and expand our training per industry needs. Here is a sampling of our current offerings.
Legislated & Safety Training
Just a sampling of our legislated & safety skills training includes:
Technical Skills Training
Just a sampling of our technical skills training includes:
Welding & Fabrication Training
Leadership Skills Training
Just a sampling of our leadership technical training includes:
Health and Wellness Training
Just a sampling of our Health and Wellness training includes:
State-of-the-Art Facilities
The UBC’s International Training Center is a facility like no other in the world. At the ITC’s 1.2 million-square-foot campus, millwrights hone skills in confined space, using our turbine pit. They work on gas and steam turbines, conveyors, compressors and pumps, and they train using two 35-ton or four 20-ton overhead bridge cranes. UBC millwrights and instructors have access to the most up-to-date equipment and tools to help hone their craft.
In addition to training millwrights, the ITC is the home base for our initiative to train local trainers. This ensures trainers are delivering the most current craft-skills instruction to members at more than 250 local training centers across North America.
“At OPG we are impressed with the professionalism we see in the Millwrights that are deployed for work in our facilities, this is a testament to the time taken to train them to be skilled workers who take pride in their workmanship.”
Bill Owens
SVP, Refurbishment Execution | Nuclear Refurbishment, Ontario Power Generation
“In today’s environment, you have to continuously be improving. The UBC millwrights are the most highly qualified people that can be on a jobsite.”
Rick Rives
President, Atlantic Plant Maintenance
“The UBC millwright crews are highly productive, with few non-recordable and zero recordable injuries. For logging over 100,000 hours worked on the job so far, that’s not too bad.”
Michael F. McCormick
President, Siemens Westinghouse Generation Services
“UBC millwright crews bring a wealth of knowledge, skills, and professionalism to the job on our site, both of which are highly valued in our nuclear environment where safety and quality are our overriding priorities.”
Murray Hoggart
Site Manager Darlington, Black & McDonald
“The performance and attitudes of UBC millwrights that we’ve seen throughout the entire country has been excellent. They’re working hard and they’re working safe.”
Chris Stevens
Owner, Conveyor Specialties
“UBC millwrights have provided us with a fantastic resource for labour and opened up all kinds of opportunities that we didn’t have access to before.”
Greg Moharin
Vice President, Newell Machinery
“The UBC millwright crews did very well and they were very professional. The UBC has provided us with a level of expertise that is beyond what we expected. The most important asset is their skill set. The training that the UBC provides millwrights is to be commended.”
Mike Arnoff
Owner, Arnoff (Mechanical Equipment) Moving
