Pro-V Manufacturing LP President Greg Prinsen, left, and apprentice Gary Anderson at the manufacturing shop in Edmonton. Prinsen is quite active in hiring apprentices and Registered Apprentice Program students in Edmonton.
Photograph by: JASON FRANSON , Edmonton Journal
There are advantages when it comes to succession — “we always have some youth coming through the company,” he says — and in the loyalty that is built over three- and four-year apprentice terms.
Pro-V, a firm recently acquired by the Supreme Group that specializes in manufacturing, construction and maintenance, has about 220 employees working at its facilities in Acheson Industrial Park in Parkland County, west of Edmonton. That number includes 47 apprentices and three high school students enrolled in the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) in welding and pipe trades.
“The whole industry in general has to hire apprentices to keep our workforce young,” Prinsen said. “We do have an aging workforce and we need to train some of these young people to become good tradespeople.”
In 2012, more than 60,000 registered apprentices trained at about 14,000 employer sites around Alberta. They spend about 80 per cent of their apprenticeship on the job, learning from a certified journeyperson, and the other 20 per cent receiving technical training at a post-secondary institution.
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