hornluv
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2005
- Location
- Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Hi Everyone. If anyone is in central Illinois, specifically the Champaign-Urbana area, the University of Illinois is going to be doing their quarterly Crafts and Trades testing this month. These tests are to get placed on the register from which applicants are drawn for interviews.
I'm the foreman of the Facilities and Services Machine Shop at U of I and we will be hiring again soon (no specific date, but there are two people retiring in the next year and we're already shorthanded). The shop mainly does maintenance work on equipment across campus. In addition to machining, we mainly rebuild pumps, repair or replace power transmission components (bearings, belts and sheaves, chains and sprockets, gearboxes, fan shafts, etc.), vibration analysis, and we do quite a lot of hydraulic work. The work is different pretty much every day. You might be making a special tool for another trade one day and be on a roof drilling out broken studs on a roof drain the next. The shop is mainly manual but we have a 2 axis ProtoTRAK mill as well. This is a union shop (Union of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local 1000) but you do not need to be a current union member to be hired. The base pay is $30.96/hr (40 hour week) and the current contract that runs through 2022 guarantees $1.25 raise per year. In addition, you would have health, dental, and vision coverage from day one, as well as retirement.
If you think you might be interested in testing, go to Home. You'll need to create an account and submit an application and resume before you will be allowed to take any tests. This takes a few days to get approved, but once it's done you never have to do it again. Then when the tests are posted you can sign up for any tests you are qualified for. You'd be looking for the Machinist test when they are posted. The minimum experience to be allowed to take the test is 4 years in the trade and that needs to be reflected very clearly on your resume since the people approving the applications are HR people with no or very little experience in the trades. Once you take the test, you'll be placed on the register and when we hire the interviewees will be taken from that register. You can take the test each quarter to improve your standing on the register. If you're a veteran, make that known on your application as well. Veterans are given bonus points on the tests. Of course, there are also other trades being tested for so if you are an electrician, plumber, pipefitter, sheetmetal worker, carpenter, etc. they'll be testing for those too. I'll post again when the tests are actually available. Thank you and good luck!
I'm the foreman of the Facilities and Services Machine Shop at U of I and we will be hiring again soon (no specific date, but there are two people retiring in the next year and we're already shorthanded). The shop mainly does maintenance work on equipment across campus. In addition to machining, we mainly rebuild pumps, repair or replace power transmission components (bearings, belts and sheaves, chains and sprockets, gearboxes, fan shafts, etc.), vibration analysis, and we do quite a lot of hydraulic work. The work is different pretty much every day. You might be making a special tool for another trade one day and be on a roof drilling out broken studs on a roof drain the next. The shop is mainly manual but we have a 2 axis ProtoTRAK mill as well. This is a union shop (Union of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local 1000) but you do not need to be a current union member to be hired. The base pay is $30.96/hr (40 hour week) and the current contract that runs through 2022 guarantees $1.25 raise per year. In addition, you would have health, dental, and vision coverage from day one, as well as retirement.
If you think you might be interested in testing, go to Home. You'll need to create an account and submit an application and resume before you will be allowed to take any tests. This takes a few days to get approved, but once it's done you never have to do it again. Then when the tests are posted you can sign up for any tests you are qualified for. You'd be looking for the Machinist test when they are posted. The minimum experience to be allowed to take the test is 4 years in the trade and that needs to be reflected very clearly on your resume since the people approving the applications are HR people with no or very little experience in the trades. Once you take the test, you'll be placed on the register and when we hire the interviewees will be taken from that register. You can take the test each quarter to improve your standing on the register. If you're a veteran, make that known on your application as well. Veterans are given bonus points on the tests. Of course, there are also other trades being tested for so if you are an electrician, plumber, pipefitter, sheetmetal worker, carpenter, etc. they'll be testing for those too. I'll post again when the tests are actually available. Thank you and good luck!