Employee development
We teach
the trade
Plant Wide Services was built on the idea that the trades are a craft worth teaching. The company hires for aptitude and trains its own people, and it carries that further than the job site: employees are given the chance to keep going with their education and to move up inside the trade.
That is what the Employee Development Program is — further education and training for our employees, across apprenticeship, journeyman, supervision and administration training, for the hands who want it and for those whose next step requires it.
Apprenticeship
Hands coming into the trade learn it properly — the fundamentals of industrial electrical and instrumentation work, taught alongside the crews who do it every day.
Journeyman
Working electricians and instrument technicians keep building on the trade, adding the depth that separates a hand who can run a job from one who can only work it.
Supervision
Field supervision and project management — how a scope is planned, staffed, sequenced and turned over inside an operating unit.
Administration
The office side of a plant contractor: estimating, project controls, purchasing, payroll, human resources and finance.
How it works
School, arranged around the job
Training runs alongside the work, not instead of it. Employees who are interested in attending school, and those for whom it is mandatory, are asked to attend nearby colleges, or schooling held at our corporate office taught by a college professor.
Nearby colleges
Employees attend coursework at colleges in the area, arranged around the trade they are building and the work they are on.
At the corporate office
Schooling is also held at our corporate office, taught by a college professor, so the classroom is a short walk from the yard.
Interested or required
Some employees come to it because they want to go further in the trade. For others the schooling is required for the role they are moving into. Both are asked to attend.
Why we do it
A crew that keeps
learning is a crew
that stays
Old school workmanship was never only about how a job was built. It was about who was taught to build it, and whether the trade was handed on.
A contractor that hires off the street and never trains anyone can only ever sell hands. A contractor that teaches the trade ends up with people who understand the whole job — an electrician who can read the loop drawing, an instrument technician who knows why the motor will not start.
That is the reason the program exists, and it is the same reason quality work is acknowledged here rather than merely invoiced. The employee who did the job well is recognized for it, and the next person coming up is shown how it was done.
So the program is open to anyone in the company who is willing to put the time in, whether they are starting as an apprentice or moving into supervision, administration or estimating. The company covers the ground between where an employee is and where they want to go in the trade.
Who it is for
Every role, from apprentice up
The program runs across the whole company, not one department. These are the roles it serves.
- Apprentices
- Journeyman electricians
- Supervisors
- Project managers
- I&E estimators
- Cost estimators
- HR administrators
- Finance
Interested in a trade or a role on this list? Send us an application and tell us what you want to build toward.
Want to build a trade here?
Apprentices, journeymen, supervision and the office side — we take applications whether or not a role is posted.