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.

Rochester Secondary College on CiM tour of Bushmaster

Last Friday (2nd November 2011), 7 students were fortunate enough to be able to attend an excursion to Thales in Bendigo.  Thales is a large engineering company that specialises in the manufacture of defence force equipment, with the Bushmaster one of its best known products.

Students were introduced to the various products that Thales produce and the many career options that are available, including metal fabrication, fitting and machining and auto electrical, through to mechanical and electrical engineering. 

Students also observed the various missiles that are used to attack vehicles and the research and development that goes into counteracting these missiles. A tour of the production line was preceded by a trip in the Bushmaster over rugged terrain. Students were also able to talk to two young engineers and their career pathway; an interesting aspect was how both had changed from their initial chosen careers of dietician and a career in ADFA.

Student observations included;

"Highlight of the day would be the ride in the Bushmaster." 

"Riding in the Bushmaster is like driving a 15 tonne box with wheels that can go over anything." 

"Worth going to just for the ride in the steel box with with wheels." 

"When I get $1 million, I'm buying a Bushmaster.  Learnt a lot of stuff and had some fun as well." 

"Bushmasters have indicators and brake lights and can't break the road rules in war." 

"It takes a week to produce 2 Bushmasters but if they push hard they can produce 4."

 

Pictured in front of the Thales centre are (from L. to R.); Jamie Nalder, Josh McPhee, Dylan Nebauer, Trent Ross, Sean , Caleb Sinclair and Eric Bolitho.

Thanks to Chris Driscoll, Pathways Coordinator for the contribution above.

 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.”