Do you have a young person in your life that needs to explore all their choices for education and a career after high school? You may be exploring the options with them so they get the education they need to find an interesting and challenging job that pays well, provides excellent benefits, and offers opportunity for advancement.
Does your student or teen like to play computer or video games for hours? That may be a good sign! The technical, special and logistical skills needed to navigate levels and succeed in the virtual world may indicate they would enjoy and excel in a process manufacturing career.
Does your student or teen have aptitude in analytical and mechanical reasoning, problem solving, spatial relations, or math and geometry? If so, they may be a good fit for a career as a process manufacturing technician. Even more than those qualities, process manufacturers are looking for people who are good at teamwork, organization and logical thinking.
Increasingly, graduates of technical programs must understand and work with sophisticated computer technology and systems, and in many cases they will make excellent wages. This is particularly true for professional technicians in the process manufacturing industries.
You know that teenagers want to make enough money to pay for the things they want and need, but they also crave variety and adventure (these skills are in demand all over the country!). They respond less enthusiastically to the assurance of good health care and retirement benefits- but as adults, we know how important these factors are to self-sufficiency. So, just between us, you should know that jobs in process technology, instrumentation, electronics and electromechanical technology:
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Offer excellent starting wages ($17-$25+)
Provide opportunity for advancement and increases in pay
Typically provide excellent benefits
Involves many computer skills that your teenager is probably already using
Require only a two year AAS Degree (that's less than $10,000 total books and tuition cost)
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Take a look around this website, to learn more about the jobs, the classes, and about BTC's outstanding process and control technology programs.
The Center supports the network of technical and community colleges in Washington State in providing quality process and control technology training for their students and the best possible workforce for the processing industries in their area. |
