Colorado: For the first year of the Apprentice Program at Wagner Equipment Co., you will be attending classes as a student at the Community College of Aurora. The program begins with two weeks of classroom lessons, followed by two weeks of practical Wagner shop experience. This classroom/shop rotation will continue for 45 weeks and will allow you to effectively transfer your classroom skills to the appropriate shop area.
New Mexico:For the first year of the Apprentice Program (South) at Wagner Equipment Co., you will be attending classes as a Diesel Technology student at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) in Albuquerque, NM. The program begins with approximately five weeks of classes/labs at CNM, followed by five weeks of practical Wagner shop experience. This classroom/shop rotation will continue for 42 weeks and will allow you to effectively transfer your classroom skills to the appropriate shop area.
Colorado: Upon graduation from the Community College of Aurora, you will work full time for Wagner Equipment Co. as an apprentice for the second year of the program. During the first 6-month period, you will attend classes for the first 2 weeks at Wagner Training Institute. The following 2 weeks will be spent working with journeyman technicians in the assigned shop. The remaining 6 months will be working in your assigned shop. Upon completion of the 2nd year, you will graduate with an Associates of Applied Science in Diesel Technology degree.
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New Mexico: Upon graduation from Central New Mexico Community College, you will work full-time for Wagner Equipment Co. as an Apprentice for the second year of the program. You will continue four-to-five week rotations between classes at Wagner Training Institute in Albuquerque and your assigned shop. Upon completion of the second year, you will graduate from the Apprentice Program as a Class B Service Technician.
Upon entering the Apprentice Program, you are eligible to participate in a company-sponsored tool program. Wagner Equipment Co. will provide you with a set of tools and box valued at approx. $7,500 in exchange for a time commitment work agreement.