moldmaking ership met with some CAMM Toronto members in March at the headquarters of Athena Automation Ltd., in Vaughan, Ont. “We presented the Mold Maker Level 1 program to the members and explained to them what participating companies have to do,” Jones said. First, the moldmaker has to agree to an interview with a candidate who has passed the OMLC’s validated candidate selection process. “Once a trainee is in place at the participating mold shop, the shop then has to follow our training guidelines and system; provide dedicated time for a trainer or coach to assist the trainee; use our learning contract system to manage the trainee’s hands-on learning; and provide access for periodic visits by an OMLC assessor,” Jones said. The shop also has to pay the full training fees at the start of the program, which represents an investment of $15,000. “Canada-Ontario Jobs Grant payouts to the company, via CAMM, will be $8,500 after three weeks and $1,500 after completion, and a training
provider will pay another $3,000 in cash to the mold shop after the trainee has been certified as a Mold Maker Level 1,” Jones said. The program – which involves between four and six weeks of classroom training followed by approximately 22 weeks of on-the-job training – requires a minimum of 15 CAMM member companies to commit to taking on one or more trainees before it can begin. “We already have several shops that have signed on, and I’m confident we’ll have the others we need in time to begin the program by this summer,” Jones said. “To me it’s obvious: The best place for people to learn skilled trades is on the shop floor. When it comes to learning tooling and machining, it never made sense to me to have schools buying expensive pieces of CNC equipment that are underutilized. Why not send the trainees directly to the mold shops, where the equipment and the trained workers already are?” CPL
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