The Careers in Manufacturing Program (CiM) has been developed to promote the exciting and extensive range of career options available to young people in the Manufacturing & Engineering sectors. The Program has been designed to ensure that Years 9 & 10 secondary students are able to “see, taste, touch & feel manufacturing”. It is a Victoria wide program.

The Young Industry Ambassador Program promotes enthusiastic apprentices, trainees & graduates, who have a passionate, positive & youthful message about career choices available in the Manufacturing & Engineering sectors. Young Industry Ambassadors can visit schools and talk about their own career pathway. They may also be able to host small groups of students through their own worksite. YIA’s promote the Industry as:

• ·         being high tech

• ·         providing safe & well organised working environments

• ·         being highly sustainable,

• ·         having multiple opportunities for further training

• ·         being focused on Research & Development

• ·         providing opportunities for rapid promotion, travel & the development of portable skill sets

• ·         being an “industry of choice” for enthusiastic & ambitious young people.

The CiM program can also organise an exciting number of industry tour options. These tours can be funded under the CiM program and many sites have a Young Industry Ambassador available on site.

For more information about CiM program options, contact Judith Graham on 039889 0966 or jgraham@mesab.com.au 

The links on the right of this page provide more details and resources on the Careers in Manufacturing project.

You can also gain more information on careers in Manufacturing, Science and Mining Industries at the Youth Central web site.

Glenroy College Students on CiM tour at the Tullamarine base of Qantas.

St Arnauds Secondary College meet with Young Industry Ambassador Brad Webster.

On Monday the 15^th March, YIA Brad Webster was sent by the Careers in Manufacturing, Manufacturing & Engineering Skills Advisory Board, to talk to St Arnaud Secondary College VCAL students about his role as a Lineworker at Powercor, based in Horsham.

Brad gave a valuable insight into what he had to do to be employed in this field of work and the qualifications and training that was also involved.  He showed a great depth of knowledge about the company and its contractors and offered helpful advice to students wishing to pursuit this type of “hands on” career. 

His PowerPoint presentation headed discussions such as “About Me”, the “Economic Downturn & Industry”, “Who are Citipower & Powercor”, provided “Powercor Network Stats”, and answered questions on “Why we need Lineworkers”, “Apprentise Powerline Worker”, “Work/life balance”.  Brad also shared  images of “Just another day on the job...”, “Me at work” and “Teamwork”. 

Question time was very animated and easy discussion flowed throughout the presentation. 

The VCAL students and staff at St Arnaud Secondary College, would like to extend a BIG “Thank you” to Brad for his input on the day, and for Judith for her organisation also!!!  We see Josh Resuggan here below, modelling some of the PPE that Brad is required to wear in his role of Lineworker!

Josh Resuggan modelling some of the protective equipment that Brad wears as a lineworker.	Students from St Arnaud Secondary College

 CiM MANUFACTURING/QANTAS TOUR for Bendigo schools

 Fourteen students from four Bendigo secondary schools took advantage of a unique opportunity to visit the Qantas Heavy Maintenance facility and an apprentice training hangar at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday, May 26^th.

Bendigo South East Secondary College, Catholic College Bendigo, Bendigo Senior Secondary College and Kalianna Special School offered this to students available interested in careers in aviation.

 As the Australian Socceroos were being farewelled in another hangar, the students were able to gain valuable insights into apprenticeship training and  other opportunities.

Presentations and guided tours by staff from Qantas Engineering and the Kangan Institute of TAFE were most informative.

Students saw maintenance being done on a plane, sat in the cockpit of a serving aeroplane, and spent a significant amount of time aboard  actual aeroplanes.

Some were invited to view , electronics work being undertaken on a blackbox while others moved cockpit controls adjusting wings and engines for landing.

The smiles, interested questions from the students, and positive interaction among staff from Bendigo and those at the airport made it a most enjoyable day.

Judith Graham of Careers in Manufacturing, supported by the Goldfields Local Learning and Employment Network arranged the tour.

Careers in Manufacturing have been running such events for some years throughout Victoria however this was one of the first in Bendigo.

“ We look forward to developing a more regular involvement to provide Goldfields students with these eye-opening, hands-on  events  in the future,” said Chris Coughlan, member of the Goldfields LLEN team. “The more our students can get into real life workplace situations the better.”