Instrumentation and Control Technician Apprenticeship program highlighted in the Ottawa Citizen
Posted on Friday, October 18th, 2013
This article highlighting the new Instrumentation and Control Technician Apprenticeship program appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on October 2, 2013 – “OTTAWA — Alvin Canlas is being paid to learn new skills that could help him get a better job someday.
The 37-year-old Ottawa man is one of 140 full-time employees enrolled in a new, on-the-job apprenticeship program launched last week by Abbott Point of Care, in partnership with Algonquin College.
The sprawling plant off Moodie Drive makes postage stamp-sized cartridges used in hand-held medical diagnostic devices, which provide doctors and nurses with real-time, lab-quality results in minutes.
“It makes me feel better if I wake up in the morning and I know that I’m going to benefit from this and the company is going to benefit by sending their employees to this training program,” said Canlas, who has worked as a technician at Abbott for a decade.
He works day-shifts through the week, but spends four hours a week in an on-site classroom next to the cafeteria, where students are trained to become instrumentation and control technicians.
Canlas and his classmates, who were invited by the company to apply, will attend classes here for the next three years, and eventually earn Algonquin diplomas and trade certificates that qualify them to work anywhere in Canada……..”
Please click here to visit the Instrumentation and Control Technician Apprenticeship web page