Heavy Equipment Apprenticeship Program: Openings Available

Written by Local 793 Staff

IUOE Local 793 Area Offices are accepting Heavy Equipment Apprenticeship Applications for 2018/2019. For program information please visit OETIO here: Entrance Requirements are: 18 Years of Age Resumé Grade 12 or Equivalent Valid Drivers License (G) Pass a Trade Entrance Exam (70 per cent passing grade) If you are interested in applying, please contact your local union office at the contact information listed below. Barrie 240 Bayview Drive, Unit 12, Barrie Ontario L4N 4Y8  Justin O’Neill barrie@iuoelocal793.org Phone: 705-734-2494 Fax: 705-734-1407 Belleville 1 Millennium Parkway, Unit 102 Belleville, Ontario K8N 4Z5 […]

IUOE Local 793 Area Offices are accepting Heavy Equipment Apprenticeship Applications for 2018/2019.

For program information please visit OETIO here:

Entrance Requirements are:

  1. 18 Years of Age
  2. Resumé
  3. Grade 12 or Equivalent
  4. Valid Drivers License (G)
  5. Pass a Trade Entrance Exam (70 per cent passing grade)

If you are interested in applying, please contact your local union office at the contact information listed below.

Barrie 240 Bayview Drive, Unit 12,
Barrie Ontario L4N 4Y8 
Justin O’Neill		 barrie@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 705-734-2494
Fax: 705-734-1407
Belleville 1 Millennium Parkway, Unit 102
Belleville, Ontario K8N 4Z5
Andrew Patton		 belleville@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 613-968-3363
Fax: 613-968-6302
Cambridge 100 Sheldon Drive, Unit 10
Cambridge Ontario N1R 7S7
Bob Sutherland		 cambridg@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 519-621-6344
Fax: 519-621-5887
Hamilton 35 Goderich Road, Unit 5
Hamilton Ontario L8E 4P2
Virgil Nosé
Mike Schutte
Brian Rogerson		 hamilton@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 905-544-1851
Fax: 905-544-3595
London 4096 Meadowbrook Drive, Unit 115
London Ontario N6L 1G4
Anthony Wade
Kelly Burla 		london@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 519-652-2740
Fax: 519-652-9676
Oshawa 1255 Terwillegar Avenue, Unit #7
Oshawa Ontario L1J 7A4
Ryan Wilbee
Paul Marshall		 oshawa@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 905-720-0480
Fax: 905-720-0722
Ottawa 174 Colonnade Road South, Unit 2,
Nepean Ontario K2E 7J5
Rick Kerr
Jim Laginski
Gerry St. Jacques 		ottawa@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 613-228-1759
Fax: 613-228-1841
Sarnia 1390A Lougar Avenue
Sarnia Ontario N7S 5N7
Mike Barons
Paul Knight		 sarnia@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 519-337-2053
Fax: 519-337-3849
Sault Ste. Marie 432 Great Northern Road, Suite 203
Sault Ste. Marie Ontario P6B 4Z9
Robert Turpin
Robert Catling		 saultstemarie@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 705-949-6860
Fax: 705-949-4541
St. Catharines 188 Bunting Road, Unit 5
St. Catharines Ontario L2M 3Y1
Steve Homewood		 stcatharines@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 905-227-8211
Fax: 905-227-3046
Sudbury 430 Westmount Avenue, Unit H
Sudbury Ontario P3A 5Z8
Eric Giroux		 sudbury@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 705-675-8643
Fax: 705-675-8683
Thunder Bay 979 Alloy Drive
Thunder Bay Ontario P7B 5Z8
John Kelly
Mark Anttonen		 thunderbay@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 807-344-7612
Fax: 807-345-9317
Timmins 54 Waterloo Rd, Unit 2
Timmins ON P4N 8P3
Kirk Fournier		 timmins@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 705-531-3119
Fax: 705-531-3121
Windsor 3383 Walker Road,
Windsor Ontario N8W 3R9
Steve Booze
Dave Pfaff
 windsor@iuoelocal793.org
Phone: 519-250-8877
Fax: 519-250-9354

OETIO Receives Funds for New Equipment

Written by Local 793 Staff

Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher was quoted in the following article that appeared recently in Daily Commercial News. With an aging workforce and infrastructure spending ramping up, the need to teach specialty skills such as crane and heavy equipment operation in Ontario has gone past talk and into crunch time. Mike Gallagher, Oakville, Ont. business manager of Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), addressed the gravity of the situation recently as he welcomed funding for seven new pieces of heavy equipment worth close to $1.3 […]

Local 793 business manager Mike Gallagher was quoted in the following article that appeared recently in Daily Commercial News.

With an aging workforce and infrastructure spending ramping up, the need to teach specialty skills such as crane and heavy equipment operation in Ontario has gone past talk and into crunch time.

Mike Gallagher, Oakville, Ont. business manager of Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), addressed the gravity of the situation recently as he welcomed funding for seven new pieces of heavy equipment worth close to $1.3 million for the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario (OETIO) campuses in Morrisburg and Oakville.

The OETIO trains crane operators as well as heavy equipment operators who run dozers, backhoes and excavators but Gallagher said they are barely keeping up with demand.

There are currently 320 crane and tower apprentices training at the Oakville centre but research shows OETIO and the colleges who also train heavy equipment operators are in a race against time as the huge boomer generation reaches retirement age.

The average age of a journeyman mobile crane operator according to Ontario statistics compiled in 2012 was 50; even more pressing, the average tower crane operator was 58.

“We carefully monitor that,” said Gallagher. “We allow retirees to work for a certain amount of time after they retire but you can only keep working for so long at this trade, it is a physically demanding trade.”

“So the opportunity is there for young people considering a career.”

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New Training to Protect Workers

Written by Local 793 Staff

Ontario is introducing new training to help protect workers and keep them safe on the job. The new training requirement becomes mandatory July 1, 2014. Workers and supervisors will be required to take part in a one-hour tutorial, either individually or in groups using free, online e-learning tools or hard copy workbooks that can be obtained from ServiceOntario. The training is designed to help prevent workplace incidents and injuries by making workers and supervisors aware of their roles, rights and responsibilities in the workplace. The training was developed in partnership […]

Ontario is introducing new training to help protect workers and keep them safe on the job.
The new training requirement becomes mandatory July 1, 2014.
Workers and supervisors will be required to take part in a one-hour tutorial, either individually or in groups using free, online e-learning tools or hard copy workbooks that can be obtained from ServiceOntario.
The training is designed to help prevent workplace incidents and injuries by making workers and supervisors aware of their roles, rights and responsibilities in the workplace.
The training was developed in partnership with labour groups, businesses and municipalities and will be mandatory for all workers and supervisors in the province who are covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Mandatory basic health and safety awareness training was a key recommendation of the Expert Advisory Panel on Occupational Health and Safety, led by Tony Dean in 2010.
The Panel was appointed following a Christmas Eve scaffolding accident that claimed the lives of four workers in 2009.
The Panel conducted a review of the province’s workplace health and safety system and came up with a number of recommendations.
Workplaces that have provided similar training to employees will not need to participate, as long as the previous training met the minimum requirements of the new regulation.
Once the e-learning training module is complete, an employee will receive a certificate that is valid for the remainder of his or her career. The printed training materials are available in nine languages.
Chief Prevention Officer George Gritziotis says the awareness training will lay the foundation for building a strong occupational health and safety culture in the province of Ontario.

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Local 793 Members Profiled in SAY Magazine

Written by Local 793 Staff

Articles about training opportunities offered by Local 793 and the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario (OETIO) to First Nations peoples were published in a February education guide produced by SAY Magazine. The magazine is distributed to First Nations communities across Canada and the U.S. The articles profiled a number of First Nations apprentices and operators who are members of Local 793, and gave readers an overview of the instruction offered at the OETIO campuses in Oakville and Morrisburg. Click here to view the articles

Articles about training opportunities offered by Local 793 and the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario (OETIO) to First Nations peoples were published in a February education guide produced by SAY Magazine.
The magazine is distributed to First Nations communities across Canada and the U.S.
The articles profiled a number of First Nations apprentices and operators who are members of Local 793, and gave readers an overview of the instruction offered at the OETIO campuses in Oakville and Morrisburg.

Click here to view the articles