On The Job Training OJT

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On The Job Training (OJT)
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Welcome

• A Summarized Overview of
• CDOTs On the Job Training Program

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Overview Learning Objectives (OJT)

• What is it ?
• What is the purpose ?
• What does it do ?
• Why do we participate ?
• Who are the OJT Program Stakeholders ?

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• Okay, Lets Begin!

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What is OJT?

• OJT On the Job Training
• A program identifying a structured and meaningful
  training path developed to take a novice employee
  to the journey worker performance level.

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Journey Worker

• A skilled worker who practices some trade or
  handicraft syn craftsman
• Craftsman a person who practices or is highly
  skilled in a craft (an art, trade, or occupation
  requiring special skill)
• One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a
  trade or craft and has become a professional
  level craftsman in the trade.

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What is the Purpose?

• To Provide training and upgrading opportunities
  for minorities, women disadvantaged workers to
  move them toward journey worker status

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What does OJT do?

• Provides an individual an opportunity to earn a
  wage, while learning a trade (earning while
  learning.)
• Provides Advancement opportunities for Trainees
• Replenish the labor force to minimize lost
  knowledge

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Why do we participate?

• Mandated by FHWA
• Funded by FHWA
• Helps develop and support a diversified
  contractors workforce for the highway
  construction industry
• Good will for the industry

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Who are the Stakeholders?

• FHWA
• CDOT
• Trainees
• Contractors
• Colorado Contractors Association (CCA)

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CDOTs Simplified OJT Process
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• There are many trades that can be used for
  training opportunities when building and
  maintaining a roadway.

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• What are some highway construction trades and
  crafts that provide good and meaningful training
  opportunities?
• For example some of the most commonly used are

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Ironworkers
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Ironworkers

• Place and install iron or steel girders, and
  columns to form bridges, buildings, and other
  structures.
• Place and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete
  forms to reinforce concrete used in highways,
  bridges, tunnels, buildings, and other
  structures.

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Mechanics
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Mechanics

• Repair and maintain systems, such as
• engines
• hydraulics
• transmissions
• electrical

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Carpenters
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Carpenters

• Carpenters use wood and other materials to
  build a broad variety of things
• Portions of highways and bridges
• Forms for pouring concrete
• Rest stops and other buildings

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Electricians
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Electricians

• Install wiring systems for highway tunnels,
  roadway signs, buildings
• Rewire, upgrade and maintain existing electrical
  systems
• Repair electrical equipment.

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Pipe Fitters and Related Crafts
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Pipefitters and Related Crafts

• Pipe fitters, pipe layers, and steamfitters
  install, maintain, and repair many different
  types of pipe that support
• Highway drainage systems
• Irrigation systems
• Electric conduit for lighted signs traffic
  signals

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Cement/Concrete Masons

• Cement masons and concrete finishers
• Place and finish the concrete
• Color concrete surfaces
• Fabricate concrete beams, columns,
  and panels.

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Equipment Operators
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Equipment Operators

• Construction equipment operators use
  machinery to move construction materials, earth,
  and other heavy materials at construction sites,
  mines, and sometimes your back yard. They
  operate equipment to
• clear and grades land
• dig trenches to lay or repair sewer and other
  pipelines
• hoist heavy construction materials
• Compact and shape materials.

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Equipment Operators

• Equipment Operators operate a broad range of
  different types of equipment to carry out their
  duties. Following are a few examples of some of
  types of jobs that Heavy Equipment Operators
  perform.

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Pot hole / overlay formation
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Cement grooving minimizes hydroplaning
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Cherry picker used during rock fall mitigation
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Front end loaded clean up after blasting
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Roller/compactor used during asphalt overlay
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Crane lifting a multi-ton girder to build a
pedestrian bridge
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Backhoe
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Bulldozer
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Other Skilled and Semi-Skilled Crafts

• Painters
• Flaggers
• Etc. if a skilled craft can be justified for
  the industry, an OJT program curriculum can be
  developed and approved.

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Opportunities for Improvement

• Revised Standard Specification
• Clarified language
• Clarified roles for stakeholders
• Sanctions for non-compliance clarified
• How can we ensure the new standards being
  followed?
• Tighter accountability for reporting on
  trainee/contractors progress
• Education/training on new Standards

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Questions
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Questions

• What is OJT?
• What is the purpose ?
• What is a Journey worker?
• Why do we participate ?
• Who are the OJT Program Stakeholders ?