Industrial Trades Technician (Apprenticeship) Associate in Technical Arts

Industrial Trades Technician (Apprenticeship) Certificate of Completion

Pre-Industrial Trades Technician Certificate of Recognition

Customer Service/Federal Employees Certificate of Recognition


The jobs with top salaries are those that combine academic, technical and critical thinking skills. This comprehensive industrial trades program blends theory and practical applications to bolster learning experiences in oral and written communications, interpersonal skills, applied mathematics, and applied physics.

Olympic College can help you prepare to qualify for workforce positions that offer security for your future. Cooperative work experience in a variety of settings spans an effective partnership between you, a civilian, your government employer, and Olympic College that can reinforce both industrial skills and academics. This program offers excellent opportunities for men and women to succeed in a career of their choice. The student will have developed knowledge and skills necessary for eventual advancement to supervisory positions.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, successful students will have demonstrated the ability to apply their skills and knowledge in the following ways:

1.   Possess the basic skills to operate comfortably and effectively in an industrial work setting.

2.   Apply critical thinking and technical abilities to resolve industrial and personnel problems.

3.   Participate effectively as a team member in the work process.

4.   Operate as a journeyman or woman in a chosen trade specific area.

5.   Recognize the significance and desirability of reliable and ethical behavior.

6.   Demonstrate self-reliance and dependability in a variety of work situations.

Program Goals

Students graduating with an ATA will possess the specific knowledge and skills required for successful completion of journeyman academic training in one of the following trades:

Option 1:           Electroplating

Option 2:           Fabric Worker

Option 3:           Insulator

Option 4:           Painter

Option 5:           Rigger

Option 6:           Shipwright

Option 7A:         Marine Electrician

Option 7B:         Heavy Mobile Equipment Electrician

Option 7C:         High Voltage Electrician

Option 7D:         Temporary Services Electrician

Option 8:           Boiler Plant Operator

Option 9:           Pipefitter

Option 9A:         Temporary Services Pipefitting

Option 10:         Shipfitter

Option 10A:       Sheetmetal

Option 11:         Tilesetter

Option 12:         NDT Examiner

Option 13:         Weldor

Option 14:         Machinist 

Option 14A:       Production Machinery Mechanic

Option 15:         Production Machine Electrician

Option 16:         Electronic Industrial Controls

Option 17:         Boilermaker

Option 18:         Electronics

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Abel, Bob      Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 253   360-476-4622

Haines, Don    Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 254   360-476-6976

Source: 2007-2008 Olympic College Catalog, SBCTC 1/30/08 Inventory