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Gary Job Corps Center provides on-the-job training and help you

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Advanced Manufacturing

Machining

Average salary: $35K per year Learn More

Length of training: 18+ months

Produce machined parts by programming, setting up, and operating a computer numerical control (CNC) machine. Maintain quality and safety standards, keep records, and maintain equipment and supplies.

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Advanced Manufacturing

Welding

Average salary: $36K per year Learn More

Length of training: 18+ months

Participants will learn the most commonly utilized welding processes including welding terminology, weld design, welding safety, electrical theory, the weldability of metals, and welding quality control.

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Construction

Carpentry

Average salary: $35K per year Learn More

Length of training: 18+ months

Job Corps offers a basic Carpentry program, a Carpentry Trainee, Apprentice program through Home Builders Institute (HBI), and a Carpentry, Pre-Apprentice program through United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA). All training programs are hands-on and are similar in curriculum and requirements.

*Carpentry is a Pre-Apprenticeship program, which offers students the hands-on training and education needed to qualify for apprenticeships.

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Building a career is a long-term process,
and Job Corps is step one.

Learn new skills and choose the next step that is right for your future.

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