Enrollment Steps
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Program Highlights
The civil construction industry is experiencing a significant demand for skilled workers. Students who are 19 years or older, have a high school diploma or GED and a valid driver’s license can make a difference in their community through a highway construction career.
- Learn the necessary skills for acceptance into a highway construction career: math for the trades, job readiness and technical skills coursework.
- Obtain certifications for: OSHA 10, Forklift, CPR/First Aid Training, Flagger and Scissorlift.
- Enjoy physically active and engaging work with competitive wages and benefits and opportunity for growth and advancement.
Job Outlook
Job placement opportunities
- Boilermakers
- Bricklayers/Stonemasons
- Carpenters
- Cement Masons
- Laborers
- Electricians
- Glaziers
- Ironworkers
- Millwrights
- Operating Engineers
- Painters
- Plasterers
- Plumbers/Pipefitters
- Roofers
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Teamsters
Illinois DOT
The Illinois Department of Transportation has funded this program to expand the number of people in historically underrepresented populations who enter a highway construction career.