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Title: Maintaining the System: Defining Routes for Advancement for the Highway Maintenance Workforce
Accession Number: 01723960
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Highway maintenance workers must perform a remarkable range of duties. They also must be flexible as tasks change priority and must be able to operate a wide range of often-complicated equipment. Across the country, however, state departments of transportation (DOTs) report that filling highway maintenance positions is their biggest workforce challenge. Enter the Midwest Transportation Workforce Center (MTWC), which developed a vision to better understand and address the need for skilled and unskilled highway workers at a time when finding and retaining qualified workers is increasingly difficult. MTWC worked with highway maintenance employers in Wisconsin’s counties and cities to define the curriculum for a new apprenticeship in highway maintenance. This article summarizes findings gathered through surveys, interviews, and data analysis and the resulting apprenticeship curriculum model. Specifically, MTWC focused on what it would take to implement apprenticeships to address the highway maintenance workforce needs as identified by hiring managers. At present, the state Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards and the Wisconsin Technical College System are working to implement apprenticeships for this occupation in the state of Wisconsin. The end goal is to provide a model that can be scaled and replicated across the country.
Language: English
Authors: Adams, TeresaHart, MariaPhillips, KerriPagination: pp 38-45
Publication Date: 2019-9
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Nov 20 2019 2:08PM
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