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Skills that raise your rate

• Laser alignment and vibration analysis

  Predicting a bearing failure before it happens is worth a great deal to a plant, and the training is short.

• Welding qualification tests

  A millwright who can weld to code can take jobs others cannot.

• Rigging and crane signaling

  Moving a 20 ton gearbox into position safely is its own specialty.

• Hydraulics and mechatronics

  Modern machinery is mechanical, hydraulic and electronic at once. People who cross those lines get the interesting work.