Working as a Millwright

Millwrights

A Millwright installs and preps large precision equipement like this steam turbine rotor. (left)
Here, a Millwright aligns a motor within .002 of an inch.(right)

     If you like to work with machine tools and precision instruments and have a keen eye for the perfect fit, you might consider being a millwright. Millwrights sometimes work to specifications of requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch. In the old days, millwrights carved out gears and shafts from wood for mills and small industrial plants. Today millwrights are an elite group of construction workers who work primarily in metal and with machinery and equipment requiring precision.

     Millwrights install conveyor systems, escalators, giant electrical turbines and generators. Millwrights install and do maintenance on machinery in factories and do much of the precision work in nuclear power plants. Millwrights are skilled construction mechanics who study and interpret blueprints and then put their knowledge and expertise to work drilling, welding, bolting and doing whatever else is necessary to assure that the cogs of industry are in perfect working order.

     If you are still in school, you should take classes in mathematics, drafting and mechanical drawing, metal or industrial shop or any construction courses which familiarize you with construction technology. These classes will help you develop the dexterity and practical thinking skills you will need as an apprentice millwright.

Millwright qualification program

Experience
Qualified millwrights have the skill and knowledge to install, assemble, level, align, dismantle, repair, relocate and troubleshoot any machinery industry has to offer. Our four-year apprenticeship program provides the best combination of classroom training and on the job experience with skilled journeymen. In addition, journeymen continuing education training provides all millwrights a means to improve skills and keep up with state-of-the-art methods and equipment.
Productivity
Qualified millwrights are resourceful, creative and motivated. These traits, combined with a keen awareness of the competitive nature of the industry and a high degree of experience consistently out produces the competition.
Quality
A quality job is done right the first time with qualified millwrights. The quality of an installation or repair is not only measured by man-hours and on-time start up but is fully realized with years of low maintenance and efficient operation.

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