International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793
Look To Expand in NW Ontario
by Scott A. Sumner
The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793 do in house training for their members but also offer apprentice programs and training for anyone out there who wants to be trained professionally. They currently have training locations in Oakville, and Morrisburg, Ontario.
“ We are currently looking for a viable piece of property where we can set up a permanent office here in NW Ontario to include training, Indigenous and Mining ready set training and upgrade training for the local members,” said John Kelly, Northwestern Ontario Supervisor, International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793. “We have always had a foot hold in the construction industry. Many of our members work in the forestry industry in the winter when it is slow with earth moving. We want to move into the mining field with its expansion as well as the training of Indigenous community members.”
In the apprentice programs, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793 train on three pieces of equipment with 14 weeks of training. There is the academic side of it, the actual testing, the in class and then in field testing. After this training they get the trainee a job as an apprentice in the industry. The apprenticeship requires about 2000 to 2500 hours on each piece of equipment.-bulldozer, track excavator and rubber tired backhoe.
