Heavy Equipment Technician

Add your interest in mechanics to a working knowledge of electronics and you have the ingredients for a heavy equipment technician.

Heavy equipment technicians have a 4-year apprenticeship. Every year you’ll have:

• 8 weeks of technical training
• a minimum of 1,500 hours of on-the-job training

You’ll work on large vehicles and equipment including trucks and trailers, tractors and earth moving equipment; anything with a diesel engine, hydraulics and a power train. You’ll learn how to:

• diagnose problems
• repair or replace parts, components or systems
• test repaired equipment
• perform preventative maintenance
• write service reports

At Lakeland your main classroom is our diesel lab.

You’ll find work at dealerships and repair shops as well as at construction and industrial sites.