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S1 (00:04):
It's becoming more and more important as businesses automate and
get more robotics. Very important in manufacturing.
S2 (00:11):
For example, if I left my job today, let's say Thursday,
I have no doubt I'd be working by Monday.
S3 (00:19):
I have a really good connection with the instructors here now.
They all connect with you. They all want you to
have a good career for your future.
S4 (00:28):
98.7 Chatt Tech where 98.7% of our students earn a career.
Today we're going to learn more about the Industrial Maintenance
program at Chattahoochee Tech, we'll speak with current and former
students and faculty to learn more about this diverse field.
S1 (00:40):
My name is Stephanie O'Donoghue. I'm the Associate Dean of Computers,
Manufacturing and Engineering. I've been at Chatt Tech for nine years now. The
Industrial Maintenance program is all about having the skill set
to go into an industrial setting and be able to
maintain the equipment and the automation at that place of business.
(01:04):
It's very important to manufacturing and more important as businesses automate
and get more robotics.
S4 (01:11):
Robotics? Are we talking Skynet from Terminator here, Stephanie? Come with me,
if you.
S3 (01:14):
Want to live.
S1 (01:15):
It's just the way for them to be able to
manage all the equipment in a more efficient way as
opposed to having to just individually maintain the equipment.
S3 (01:26):
My name's Daniel Daivari and I was a student in
chat tech until I graduated in spring.
S4 (01:33):
So, Daniel, what brought you to the Industrial Maintenance program?
S3 (01:36):
So at first I came to Chatt Tech for computer programming,
and then I met Alan, and he talked to me
about the Industrial Maintenance and the Electrical Technology program, and
I got interested in it. Since I like physics, talking
about PLC, motor controllers and pneumatics hydraulics and a lot
(01:56):
of different courses that we have for the industrial maintenance,
and that's how I gravitated towards this program.
S5 (02:03):
My name is Ken Krausman, and I graduated Chattahoochee Tech
in May of 2022. There's a lot of, you know,
bookwork and practical work, but there's a lot of lab
and hands on work which appeal to me. I have
a short attention span anyway, so I have many things
to choose from. It was the buffet of playground. I mean, look.
S4 (02:21):
Everyone loves a good buffet. What makes Chatt Tech's program
a better option?
S6 (02:25):
My name is Alan Kazamian, and I'm one of the
full time instructors here at Chattahoochee Technical College in the
Industrial Maintenance program. Typically, we try to provide everything 50% lecture, 50%
hands on. So you don't just come to class and
listen to us talk for 90% of the time and
then have like a 30 minute lab sometimes, actually opposite. All right.
S4 (02:46):
Less talking. More doing. Thanks, Alan.
S7 (02:49):
My name is Marcy Smith, and I'm the Dean of
Business and Technical Studies at Chattahoochee Tech. One of the
benefits of having your hands on while you're in one
of our technical programs is that you not only know
about a certain topic, but you know how to do it,
and you really can't. There's no substitute for I know
(03:12):
how to do that in an engine. I know how
to do that in a, you know, situation on a
construction site or in a manufacturing setting.
S4 (03:21):
Well, that sounds great. But Daniel, give me a student's
opinion here. What makes this program special?
S3 (03:25):
I have a really good connection with the instructors here. Now,
Alan is an understanding instructor. They all want you to
have a good career for your future. They always support you.
S4 (03:37):
Hey, Alan. What can students learn in Industrial Maintenance?
S6 (03:41):
Mainly it's a mix of low voltage systems, so electrical systems,
low voltage, meaning very safe. Kind of like all the
way down to even smaller than batteries like double A battery size.
So small voltage systems and circuits, circuitry all the way
up to high voltage where you see maybe four times
(04:02):
higher than the voltage that you have in your home.
So getting into the kind of dangerous levels of electricity
and we also work with pneumatics, which is working with
air and we work with hydraulics, working with oil as
well. It's really about maintaining the machinery that any of these
companies in the field are using. Most of these companies
(04:22):
are running 24/7. So we teach our students to be
able to maintain and repair the machinery because you don't
want it to break and then fix it. You want
to maintain it while it's operating.
S2 (04:32):
Hello, my name is Joe Tama. I'm in Industrial Maintenance. I
grew up tinkerin g around with my toys. I, you know,
always took them apart and everything. I kind of hated
my job. And so I got back into school, Industrial
Maintenance seemed to be something hands on. And it's good to
be able to say, hey, this is what you're actually
going to see in the field versus just learn this.
S4 (04:55):
What kind of students do well in the Industrial Maintenance program.
S6 (04:58):
To be honest, anybody willing to learn. I mean, I
have students that have come in that as soon as
they came in the very first semester. They were really worried that
other students had more knowledge than them and had more
electrical experience. But I've taken students that have literally zero
clue about electricity and got them hired and opportunities to work
full time or part time. Their H.R. Manager and their
(05:21):
main managers come back and say, hey, we want more
of him. As long as you have a willingness to
learn and they show up, that's all I need.
S4 (05:26):
Stephanie what other qualities would help a student interested in
Industrial Maintenance?
S1 (05:30):
Are you mechanically inclined? Do you like to solve problems
and fix stuff? And do you want to make a
really good living? By just investing two years into your education
and into your training. And if you do, then you
should really come and explore industrial maintenance as a career,
(05:51):
because it's a very popular career right now. There are
lots of opportunities.
S6 (05:58):
In high school. If they were good in the kind
of the technical area of math or the science area.
And even for me, when I was in high school,
I took some like engineering courses where you did some
soldering of some circuits or built some small circuits. If
you're kind of on that, that cusp of thinking about
maybe I should do engineering at a university, or maybe
(06:20):
I want to get some good hands on with like again, 50% lecture, 50%
hands on skills. Then I recommend Chattahoochee Tech and our program.
S3 (06:30):
All the students are welcome to come here and get
a grasp of what we do in here and what
we expect to happen in the field. And also one
of the things that grabs a lot of students here
is that maintenance is very hot right now and there's
a lot of job opportunities you study for at most
(06:52):
two years. The outcome, it's pretty much worth it because
you're going to get good jobs and future.
S6 (07:01):
I mean, I recommend for any student that may be
on the cusp of thinking, Hey, should I do this program?
Or maybe I don't have enough knowledge, or maybe it's
too hard to let them. I tell every student this
that you can even send me an email or come
by my office. I show them around the lab, give
them a tour of the low voltage. The high voltage,
we have robotics that we program. And when you become
(07:23):
kind of a senior level student, we have even robotics
programming that you can cook for you. So we have
a making coffee, we have them making pancakes, whatever you want
them to do, you'll learn that knowledge and Wait, wait, wait.
S4 (07:35):
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Alan, this is important. You can
help me build a robot that'll make breakfast?
S6 (07:39):
Because most of the field is then the robot palletizing. So I
not only teach them the things that are needed in
the field, but some extra fun stuff when you when
you get towards the end. So KSU actually bought one
of these same robots, and now it's the one making
Jamba Juice. They do it on a touchpad and it'll make
the entire smoothie. And it's the exact same robot that we use. Again,
(08:00):
for any students that are kind of on the cusp of,
Maybe I should do this, maybe I shouldn't, or I
don't really know even what this is about. I recommend
that they come to our program and I'll show them
everything that we have to offer.
S4 (08:11):
Daniel and Joe, From a student's point of view, what's
there to like about Industrial Maintenance?
S3 (08:16):
What I like about Chattahoochee is that I'm able to
use my hands to create something so I can visually
see it's doing work for me, like it's turning electricity
to light or it's turning a three phase motor.
S2 (08:31):
And definitely people that are very hands on. There's obviously
theory involved, but we get a lot of students, from
what I've seen lab tutoring that, for example, will come
into the class and would never have touched the breadboard
before versus if you come in that first day, you
already know how to use the breadboard. You're already starting
(08:51):
to build the lab instead of having a re learned
the breadboard to begin with.
S4 (08:55):
I mean, I don't know anything about breadboards, but I'd
love to hear more about the job market. Stephanie.
S1 (09:00):
Well, if you look at the job growth, this field is
projected to grow in the next several years. In Georgia,
especially a little bit north of where the campus is, the campuss is in Acworth,
if you continue on up 75, we have quite a
few manufacturing plants in Georgia, right? So a lot of
(09:20):
the students from this program get hired in those different places.
So some of the places that I know of that
students have gotten hired like Shaw Industries, Glock, Southern Tea.
S7 (09:35):
So for each of our programs at Chattahoochee Tech, we
have an industry advisory committee. Those are people in each
given industry that will employ our graduates when they get
finished with our program. And so what we rely on
those people for on the advisory committee is what are
you looking for when you're hiring someone to do this
(09:57):
job or this job or this job? And that includes
not only hard technical skills like we nee, we need graduates
who know how to do this, but also soft skills.
What kinds of things are you looking for in terms
of communication skills and professionalism and that sort of thing?
So we rely on them for that sort of information.
(10:18):
We also rely on them to help us stay up
to date in what's happening in the industry. Many of
our industries that we're training graduates to go work in
are rapidly changing. Technology is changing in a really fast pace.
So what we want to do is be sure that
our students are prepared to go work in that rapidly
changing industry. And we have those advisory committee members come
(10:39):
in and talk to our students. We have them. We
have advisory committee members who will do mock interviews with
students to help prepare them for that process. So those
people really, really support our programs and we feel like
it kind of sets us apart. It helps us make
sure that we're right where we need to be in
terms of training the future workforce for those industries.
S4 (11:00):
Thanks, Marcy. So, Alan, can you name any other companies
that help place students?
S6 (11:05):
We work at Medline, Bell Power, Clorox, Amazon. Wellstar, Coca-Cola.
I mean, it can really be anywhere that's continuously creating
a product or providing a service. It's really mainly running
24 seven. Let's take Glock for example, the gun manufacturer,
because they have machinery that's running 24 seven to create
(11:26):
the gun. So all the way from that to health care,
where like hospitals, for example, they're running 24 seven and
they have machinery that needs to be running 24 seven
as well. And you definitely don't want those machines to
go down. So it's really any location or any manufacturing
location that is running. And they want to maintain that
machinery so that it doesn't go down.
S4 (11:47):
You can trip over career opportunities from guns to health care.
I like it. Ken - the beer drinkers that are listening, they
want to know more about your job.
S5 (11:54):
I didn't know it on the other side, but I
filled out an application two or three times, maybe four times,
and got zero response with the exception of one response
from Maryland. Basically, nothing happened. You know, he said that
he he put my resume to the proper people at Anheuser-Busch.
We had a career event at Chattahoochee Tech, and the
general manager of the plant was there, along with a
(12:15):
few other executives. This lady took the time to hear
me out on the fly. She asked for my resume.
I gave it to her. She stopped everything, took a
moment to read it and said, All right, we'll reach
out to you, and I didn't think much of it.
They called me within a week and everything happened in
one day, pretty much. I took the test, had five
interviews in one day, and they offered me the position.
(12:37):
I chose to be a weekender. My commitment to them
is 48 hours a month. So there's opportunities to give
yourself in two weekends you can finish your obligations to them.
So I have two weekends off. The reason why I
chose the weekender because on Saturdays you get paid time
and a half and Sundays you get paid double time. So
if you do the math, it's $50 ish on Saturday
(12:57):
and $70 and change on Sunday. I didn't realize it
at the time, but it's you know, it's been explained
to me on more than one occasion. That's like the
lottery of jobs. And I won it.
S4 (13:08):
Cheers to that. All right. Important question here. What's the
earning potential for graduates.
S1 (13:13):
Really good paid! You are leaving this program making $60,000
from a two year program. Which is like fantastic. I've heard
recently 30, $30 an hour. A lot of students are
getting that rate. But it just depends on the needs
(13:35):
of the company and the skill set of the student
who is leaving. But it's a great thing. Honestly, I
don't know how you can beat $60,000 with an associate's degree. There are
a lot of people who come out of a four
year college and don't get that.
S4 (13:50):
You're right, Stephanie That's a great salary range. Alan, Do
you have anything else you want to add?
S6 (13:56):
So typically the average pay before you graduate or even
like right on the cusp of graduating, it's continuously climbs.
So there's so much demand from companies in the fields
because if they have a machine that goes down there,
they could be losing thousands or tens of thousands of
dollars per hour just because that machine is down or
(14:16):
that line is not running. So they pay. I mean, typically,
I would say right now it's around $23 to $26.
An hour full time is what I see for most
of the companies that send me their part time or full time
work for our graduates. So somewhere in that range around
23 to 26 and it's continuously going up. And we
have companies right now coming in at the moment and
(14:38):
they're paying 30 to 50 starting. And if you work
on the weekends they're doing double time. So it's up
to like 50 to $60. It's it's great for this
this field and for the knowledge that you learn. You're
not only learning, you're getting you're getting paid for the
knowledge that you're actually learning and you get to apply
that hands on in the field. So it's all it's
all a win win, to be honest.
S2 (14:58):
For me, if I left my job today, what's today, Thursday? I
have no doubt I'll be working by Monday. I had
a student in my class at the beginning of this
semester on the second week was like, Hey, I got
a job. And I think he said he was making
29 an hour with zero experience.
S4 (15:17):
For more information about the industrial maintenance program at Chattahoochee Tech,
visit Chattahoochee Tech.edu . Thanks for listening to 98.7 Chatt
Tech where 98.7% of our students earn a career.
It's becoming more and more important as businesses automate and
get more robotics. Very important in manufacturing.
S2 (00:11):
For example, if I left my job today, let's say Thursday,
I have no doubt I'd be working by Monday.
S3 (00:19):
I have a really good connection with the instructors here now.
They all connect with you. They all want you to
have a good career for your future.
S4 (00:28):
98.7 Chatt Tech where 98.7% of our students earn a career.
Today we're going to learn more about the Industrial Maintenance
program at Chattahoochee Tech, we'll speak with current and former
students and faculty to learn more about this diverse field.
S1 (00:40):
My name is Stephanie O'Donoghue. I'm the Associate Dean of Computers,
Manufacturing and Engineering. I've been at Chatt Tech for nine years now. The
Industrial Maintenance program is all about having the skill set
to go into an industrial setting and be able to
maintain the equipment and the automation at that place of business.
(01:04):
It's very important to manufacturing and more important as businesses automate
and get more robotics.
S4 (01:11):
Robotics? Are we talking Skynet from Terminator here, Stephanie? Come with me,
if you.
S3 (01:14):
Want to live.
S1 (01:15):
It's just the way for them to be able to
manage all the equipment in a more efficient way as
opposed to having to just individually maintain the equipment.
S3 (01:26):
My name's Daniel Daivari and I was a student in
chat tech until I graduated in spring.
S4 (01:33):
So, Daniel, what brought you to the Industrial Maintenance program?
S3 (01:36):
So at first I came to Chatt Tech for computer programming,
and then I met Alan, and he talked to me
about the Industrial Maintenance and the Electrical Technology program, and
I got interested in it. Since I like physics, talking
about PLC, motor controllers and pneumatics hydraulics and a lot
(01:56):
of different courses that we have for the industrial maintenance,
and that's how I gravitated towards this program.
S5 (02:03):
My name is Ken Krausman, and I graduated Chattahoochee Tech
in May of 2022. There's a lot of, you know,
bookwork and practical work, but there's a lot of lab
and hands on work which appeal to me. I have
a short attention span anyway, so I have many things
to choose from. It was the buffet of playground. I mean, look.
S4 (02:21):
Everyone loves a good buffet. What makes Chatt Tech's program
a better option?
S6 (02:25):
My name is Alan Kazamian, and I'm one of the
full time instructors here at Chattahoochee Technical College in the
Industrial Maintenance program. Typically, we try to provide everything 50% lecture, 50%
hands on. So you don't just come to class and
listen to us talk for 90% of the time and
then have like a 30 minute lab sometimes, actually opposite. All right.
S4 (02:46):
Less talking. More doing. Thanks, Alan.
S7 (02:49):
My name is Marcy Smith, and I'm the Dean of
Business and Technical Studies at Chattahoochee Tech. One of the
benefits of having your hands on while you're in one
of our technical programs is that you not only know
about a certain topic, but you know how to do it,
and you really can't. There's no substitute for I know
(03:12):
how to do that in an engine. I know how
to do that in a, you know, situation on a
construction site or in a manufacturing setting.
S4 (03:21):
Well, that sounds great. But Daniel, give me a student's
opinion here. What makes this program special?
S3 (03:25):
I have a really good connection with the instructors here. Now,
Alan is an understanding instructor. They all want you to
have a good career for your future. They always support you.
S4 (03:37):
Hey, Alan. What can students learn in Industrial Maintenance?
S6 (03:41):
Mainly it's a mix of low voltage systems, so electrical systems,
low voltage, meaning very safe. Kind of like all the
way down to even smaller than batteries like double A battery size.
So small voltage systems and circuits, circuitry all the way
up to high voltage where you see maybe four times
(04:02):
higher than the voltage that you have in your home.
So getting into the kind of dangerous levels of electricity
and we also work with pneumatics, which is working with
air and we work with hydraulics, working with oil as
well. It's really about maintaining the machinery that any of these
companies in the field are using. Most of these companies
(04:22):
are running 24/7. So we teach our students to be
able to maintain and repair the machinery because you don't
want it to break and then fix it. You want
to maintain it while it's operating.
S2 (04:32):
Hello, my name is Joe Tama. I'm in Industrial Maintenance. I
grew up tinkerin g around with my toys. I, you know,
always took them apart and everything. I kind of hated
my job. And so I got back into school, Industrial
Maintenance seemed to be something hands on. And it's good to
be able to say, hey, this is what you're actually
going to see in the field versus just learn this.
S4 (04:55):
What kind of students do well in the Industrial Maintenance program.
S6 (04:58):
To be honest, anybody willing to learn. I mean, I
have students that have come in that as soon as
they came in the very first semester. They were really worried that
other students had more knowledge than them and had more
electrical experience. But I've taken students that have literally zero
clue about electricity and got them hired and opportunities to work
full time or part time. Their H.R. Manager and their
(05:21):
main managers come back and say, hey, we want more
of him. As long as you have a willingness to
learn and they show up, that's all I need.
S4 (05:26):
Stephanie what other qualities would help a student interested in
Industrial Maintenance?
S1 (05:30):
Are you mechanically inclined? Do you like to solve problems
and fix stuff? And do you want to make a
really good living? By just investing two years into your education
and into your training. And if you do, then you
should really come and explore industrial maintenance as a career,
(05:51):
because it's a very popular career right now. There are
lots of opportunities.
S6 (05:58):
In high school. If they were good in the kind
of the technical area of math or the science area.
And even for me, when I was in high school,
I took some like engineering courses where you did some
soldering of some circuits or built some small circuits. If
you're kind of on that, that cusp of thinking about
maybe I should do engineering at a university, or maybe
(06:20):
I want to get some good hands on with like again, 50% lecture, 50%
hands on skills. Then I recommend Chattahoochee Tech and our program.
S3 (06:30):
All the students are welcome to come here and get
a grasp of what we do in here and what
we expect to happen in the field. And also one
of the things that grabs a lot of students here
is that maintenance is very hot right now and there's
a lot of job opportunities you study for at most
(06:52):
two years. The outcome, it's pretty much worth it because
you're going to get good jobs and future.
S6 (07:01):
I mean, I recommend for any student that may be
on the cusp of thinking, Hey, should I do this program?
Or maybe I don't have enough knowledge, or maybe it's
too hard to let them. I tell every student this
that you can even send me an email or come
by my office. I show them around the lab, give
them a tour of the low voltage. The high voltage,
we have robotics that we program. And when you become
(07:23):
kind of a senior level student, we have even robotics
programming that you can cook for you. So we have
a making coffee, we have them making pancakes, whatever you want
them to do, you'll learn that knowledge and Wait, wait, wait.
S4 (07:35):
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Alan, this is important. You can
help me build a robot that'll make breakfast?
S6 (07:39):
Because most of the field is then the robot palletizing. So I
not only teach them the things that are needed in
the field, but some extra fun stuff when you when
you get towards the end. So KSU actually bought one
of these same robots, and now it's the one making
Jamba Juice. They do it on a touchpad and it'll make
the entire smoothie. And it's the exact same robot that we use. Again,
(08:00):
for any students that are kind of on the cusp of,
Maybe I should do this, maybe I shouldn't, or I
don't really know even what this is about. I recommend
that they come to our program and I'll show them
everything that we have to offer.
S4 (08:11):
Daniel and Joe, From a student's point of view, what's
there to like about Industrial Maintenance?
S3 (08:16):
What I like about Chattahoochee is that I'm able to
use my hands to create something so I can visually
see it's doing work for me, like it's turning electricity
to light or it's turning a three phase motor.
S2 (08:31):
And definitely people that are very hands on. There's obviously
theory involved, but we get a lot of students, from
what I've seen lab tutoring that, for example, will come
into the class and would never have touched the breadboard
before versus if you come in that first day, you
already know how to use the breadboard. You're already starting
(08:51):
to build the lab instead of having a re learned
the breadboard to begin with.
S4 (08:55):
I mean, I don't know anything about breadboards, but I'd
love to hear more about the job market. Stephanie.
S1 (09:00):
Well, if you look at the job growth, this field is
projected to grow in the next several years. In Georgia,
especially a little bit north of where the campus is, the campuss is in Acworth,
if you continue on up 75, we have quite a
few manufacturing plants in Georgia, right? So a lot of
(09:20):
the students from this program get hired in those different places.
So some of the places that I know of that
students have gotten hired like Shaw Industries, Glock, Southern Tea.
S7 (09:35):
So for each of our programs at Chattahoochee Tech, we
have an industry advisory committee. Those are people in each
given industry that will employ our graduates when they get
finished with our program. And so what we rely on
those people for on the advisory committee is what are
you looking for when you're hiring someone to do this
(09:57):
job or this job or this job? And that includes
not only hard technical skills like we nee, we need graduates
who know how to do this, but also soft skills.
What kinds of things are you looking for in terms
of communication skills and professionalism and that sort of thing?
So we rely on them for that sort of information.
(10:18):
We also rely on them to help us stay up
to date in what's happening in the industry. Many of
our industries that we're training graduates to go work in
are rapidly changing. Technology is changing in a really fast pace.
So what we want to do is be sure that
our students are prepared to go work in that rapidly
changing industry. And we have those advisory committee members come
(10:39):
in and talk to our students. We have them. We
have advisory committee members who will do mock interviews with
students to help prepare them for that process. So those
people really, really support our programs and we feel like
it kind of sets us apart. It helps us make
sure that we're right where we need to be in
terms of training the future workforce for those industries.
S4 (11:00):
Thanks, Marcy. So, Alan, can you name any other companies
that help place students?
S6 (11:05):
We work at Medline, Bell Power, Clorox, Amazon. Wellstar, Coca-Cola.
I mean, it can really be anywhere that's continuously creating
a product or providing a service. It's really mainly running
24 seven. Let's take Glock for example, the gun manufacturer,
because they have machinery that's running 24 seven to create
(11:26):
the gun. So all the way from that to health care,
where like hospitals, for example, they're running 24 seven and
they have machinery that needs to be running 24 seven
as well. And you definitely don't want those machines to
go down. So it's really any location or any manufacturing
location that is running. And they want to maintain that
machinery so that it doesn't go down.
S4 (11:47):
You can trip over career opportunities from guns to health care.
I like it. Ken - the beer drinkers that are listening, they
want to know more about your job.
S5 (11:54):
I didn't know it on the other side, but I
filled out an application two or three times, maybe four times,
and got zero response with the exception of one response
from Maryland. Basically, nothing happened. You know, he said that
he he put my resume to the proper people at Anheuser-Busch.
We had a career event at Chattahoochee Tech, and the
general manager of the plant was there, along with a
(12:15):
few other executives. This lady took the time to hear
me out on the fly. She asked for my resume.
I gave it to her. She stopped everything, took a
moment to read it and said, All right, we'll reach
out to you, and I didn't think much of it.
They called me within a week and everything happened in
one day, pretty much. I took the test, had five
interviews in one day, and they offered me the position.
(12:37):
I chose to be a weekender. My commitment to them
is 48 hours a month. So there's opportunities to give
yourself in two weekends you can finish your obligations to them.
So I have two weekends off. The reason why I
chose the weekender because on Saturdays you get paid time
and a half and Sundays you get paid double time. So
if you do the math, it's $50 ish on Saturday
(12:57):
and $70 and change on Sunday. I didn't realize it
at the time, but it's you know, it's been explained
to me on more than one occasion. That's like the
lottery of jobs. And I won it.
S4 (13:08):
Cheers to that. All right. Important question here. What's the
earning potential for graduates.
S1 (13:13):
Really good paid! You are leaving this program making $60,000
from a two year program. Which is like fantastic. I've heard
recently 30, $30 an hour. A lot of students are
getting that rate. But it just depends on the needs
(13:35):
of the company and the skill set of the student
who is leaving. But it's a great thing. Honestly, I
don't know how you can beat $60,000 with an associate's degree. There are
a lot of people who come out of a four
year college and don't get that.
S4 (13:50):
You're right, Stephanie That's a great salary range. Alan, Do
you have anything else you want to add?
S6 (13:56):
So typically the average pay before you graduate or even
like right on the cusp of graduating, it's continuously climbs.
So there's so much demand from companies in the fields
because if they have a machine that goes down there,
they could be losing thousands or tens of thousands of
dollars per hour just because that machine is down or
(14:16):
that line is not running. So they pay. I mean, typically,
I would say right now it's around $23 to $26.
An hour full time is what I see for most
of the companies that send me their part time or full time
work for our graduates. So somewhere in that range around
23 to 26 and it's continuously going up. And we
have companies right now coming in at the moment and
(14:38):
they're paying 30 to 50 starting. And if you work
on the weekends they're doing double time. So it's up
to like 50 to $60. It's it's great for this
this field and for the knowledge that you learn. You're
not only learning, you're getting you're getting paid for the
knowledge that you're actually learning and you get to apply
that hands on in the field. So it's all it's
all a win win, to be honest.
S2 (14:58):
For me, if I left my job today, what's today, Thursday? I
have no doubt I'll be working by Monday. I had
a student in my class at the beginning of this
semester on the second week was like, Hey, I got
a job. And I think he said he was making
29 an hour with zero experience.
S4 (15:17):
For more information about the industrial maintenance program at Chattahoochee Tech,
visit Chattahoochee Tech.edu . Thanks for listening to 98.7 Chatt
Tech where 98.7% of our students earn a career.
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