The construction industry has jobs for individuals who can operate different kinds of machines and heavy equipment. To find employment in this field, you will need to undergo specialized training and know the proper safety procedures so you can do the job to specification and safely.

Associated Training Services (ATS) offers students the opportunity to train in a variety of fields, so they can find employment in various industries and operating different kinds of equipment and machines. Here are just a few of the different kinds of equipment that ATS instructors can provide training for:

• Excavators
• Bulldozers
• Backhoes
• Wheel loaders
• Scrapers
• All-terrain forklifts
• Motor graders
• Articulated off-road dump trucks
• Hydraulic cranes
• Articulated boom cranes
• Lattice boom cranes
• Tower cranes
• Digger derricks
• Truck driver training

Heavy Equipment Training For Those Seeking Employment

ATS has highly experienced instructors who can provide two levels of heavy equipment operator training on the different kinds of heavy equipment included on the list. These are the most commonly used pieces of equipment used in industries that employ heavy equipment operators. The training programs include hands-on training and classroom experience. Students will learn how to read grades, grading stakes, laser levels, site plans, soils, and site layouts as well as learn all the proper operating techniques and safety protocols.

Students who are learning how to drive a truck commercially and obtain a CDL will be able to seek employment driving a truck, a crane, or a heavy equipment operator. When a student obtains a CDL, he or she can drive a truck and haul the heavy equipment to the job site or drive a mobile crane on the roads. Students learn the basic skills that are needed to drive Class-A vehicles.

Getting The Details

When you are ready to learn more about the different kinds of training programs for heavy equipment operation, call ATS and learn about the financial assistance and other opportunities available to prospective students. Call (800) 383-7364 today and speak with an admissions counselor.

There are times when a heavy equipment company must look at the painful reality of needing some specialized training before that company can be competitive. Whether that specialized training is needed for a few of your staff or an entire crew, ATS Specialized Training is designed to help you meet the challenge.

Associated Training Services can design the perfect training program that meets all the various requirements. Legalities, changing industry standards, unique operating environments, and customer requests all can be addressed by our instructors while maintaining the highest standards of quality and integrity.

These classes can be held at the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin location or at remote sites all over the country. Beginner-level or customized training can be provided in these areas and more:

• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing, and Certification.
• NCCCO Rigger-1 & Signalperson Training, Testing, and Certification.
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing, and Qualification.
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing, and Qualification.
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing.
• Credentials.

ATS is a nationally accredited, family-owned, private vocational school that has been providing professional training for over five decades. As the industries have changed, we have kept up with the changes. That means we can help you make the changes that keep your company competitive.

Enhance the safety consciousness of your workforce and increase productivity while fulfilling regulatory or insurance requirements by letting ATS provide specialized training. We cover a broad spectrum of subjects relating to the heavy equipment field and more.

Sometimes, the unique circumstances of a job site or the niche a company has worked hard to develop require heavy equipment operators who have specialized training for the specialized tasks they are expected to perform. ATS Specialized can come to the site or provide classes in their training facility. This training falls under these categories:

• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing and Certification
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing and Qualification
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing and Qualification
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing

Why ATS Specialized?

The value of ATS-Specialized training is the experience behind the instruction. Since 1959 there has been training happening at ATS, and that means we’ve developed the skills and understanding it takes to train operators who meet today’s standards with the advantage of accumulated wisdom.

The curriculum is up to date, the instructors are certified, the accreditation is nationally respected, and the customers have been satisfied for decades. What more could you ask for?

Ask For The Training That Fits Your Needs

The skilled trades industries operate in a wide variety of environments, doing a broad spectrum of work, under lengthy regulations specific to the task, and often have customers who need unique challenges met. A solid basic operator training course is a good foundation, but the skills and knowledge must be built on that foundation before the job can be done.

Since the training team can come to the site, their valuable experience and insight can be utilized to make sure all the factors are taken into consideration and your workers are trained the way they should be for the job.

For more information on ATS Specialized training please call us at (800) 678-8149.

ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Training School is qualified to provide Employer Specific Specialized Training. What does that mean? It means that we can customize our curriculum and provide you with experienced instructors to get your work crew trained for the environment you work in, the type of work you do, the needs of your customers, and the regulations you must follow. Learn more ways your company succeeds with ATS.

ATS-Specialized offers this specialized training on your site or our training site, in four ways:

• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing and Certification
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing and Qualification
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing and Qualification
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing

There’s even some federal and state funding available in the form of the Incumbent Worker Training Program and we can help you figure out if you qualify for this help. Each one of the four certifications, qualifications, and licensing are standard benchmarks of quality that insurance and safety regulations may require of your business. But the actual implementation of that work goes beyond the standard and is unique to many job sites.

If you are involved with a job requiring standards above and beyond the normal processes or you have employees who need any of these four basic training procedures, ATS-Specialized can provide the specific training you need. We can even travel to the site so that training is immediately applicable and any variables are accounted for in the curriculum.

The extensive experience gleaned from five decades of training top-quality heavy equipment operators and truck drivers can be used to your advantage with ATS-Specialized Training for your work crew.

Many times, an employer would love to provide specialized training but lacks the financial ability to do it. When your crew lack training, there’s more chance for safety violations and accidents. More violations and accidents cost more than money. They cost time and valuable employees, too. It’s like a downward spiral that has to stop.

There’s a program in every state of the country called the Incumbent Worker Training Program. It’s funded by the Workforce Investment Act and provides grants to eligible employers so they can give full-time permanent employees upgraded skills training. The amount varies from state to state because the state determines how the grant funding is allocated, but it can run to $200,000 per employer and an annual range of $4-5 million statewide.

Associated Training Services is qualified to provide training for the Incumbent Worker Training Program, and there could be funding available for your crew to get the specialized training they need to keep your business safe, productive, and profitable.

General Eligibility Guidelines For Funding

In general, to be eligible for incumbent worker training funds:

• The employer must be a private sector. Public and government entities are not eligible.
• Partner with a training provider, which may be public, private non-profit, or private-for-profit educational entities, faith-based or community-based organizations.
• Be actively involved in the planning and design of the customized training project for your crew.
• Sign an agreement outlining each entity’s roles and responsibilities in the training project, including reporting requirements related to trainee participation.
• Provide equal opportunity employment documentation as well as information on the occupations for training, employment benefits, wages and social security numbers for trainees.
• Ensure trainee information can be reported one year after project completion.

Construction Crew Training

Since ATS is a training provider, we can help you determine if your workforce crew would qualify for financial help. If you do, your workforce can get the training they need and you can focus on running your business effectively and safely.

There are times when a specific job has a lot of regulations to adhere to, and often part of the requirement is that your crew, or certain members, undergo specific specialized training in order to do the job. If you don’t have the people trained to the required standards, there will be consequences, and it isn’t worth the risk.

The problem is the logistics of providing that training. There’s a lot to juggle: legal stuff, industry, operating environments, and customer needs. This becomes the reason an employer needs ATS Specialized Training.

Associated Training Services has a team of instructors who are able to design the perfect training programs for your employees and then teach those employees what they need to know. Your workforce productivity and safety consciousness will be improved, you will fulfill regulatory and insurance requirements, and they can come to your work site to do it if that is what you need.

Whether you need to provide your employees specialized training in heavy equipment, mobile crane, or commercial vehicle training, ATS can do it:

• backhoes
• bulldozers
• wheel loaders
• excavators
• scrapers
• articulated dump trucks
• motor graders
• all-terrain fork lifts
• mobile hydraulic cranes
• lattice boom cranes
• articulated boom cranes
• commercial motor vehicles/CDL testing
• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing and Certification
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing and Qualification
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing and Qualification
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing and Licensing

That looks like a lot, but you know as an industry employer that any job involving heavy equipment needs to have high standards for the operators and your crew that lay their lives on the line to do their job every day. ATS Specialized Training may even be funded by the Incumbent Worker Training Program, which provides employer & employee training grants.

Did you know that Associated Training Services can travel and bring our top-rated Rigging/Signalperson Qualification and Certification Programs to the job site? It’s true, and it works very well for the specialized training your work crews might require for that site. ATS will train your work personnel using classroom and written curricula, including testing and practical instruction. Our training standards include:

Rigging/Signalperson Qualification Program

• Designed to meet all OSHA qualification standards
• Written curriculum and testing
• Practical training and exam
• A minimum of 8 hours of rigging/signalperson instruction
• Up to 12 hours of rigging/signalperson instruction
• Every student is issued a qualification compliance card by ATS after completing the course

Rigging/Signalperson Certification Program

• We exceed the OSHA qualification standard for rigging/signalperson training
• Students receive written tests to match in-class curriculum
• Students are administered practical training followed by practical examinations
• 4 days of training includes 32-36 hours of training
• Students receive NCCCO Rigging Level One as well as NCCCO Signalperson Certifications after successfully completing the training

This is a great way to ensure that your worksite meets the requirements of OSHA. It’s also a great way to get everybody on the same page for procedures and standards. With the spring construction season, the demands for rigging and signalpersons who are able to meet NCCCO standards will just keep growing faster than the grass sprouting everywhere.

Associated Training Services has been providing heavy equipment operator training for a long time, and our Rigging/Signalperson Qualification and Certification Programs are part of our tradition. Nobody should be operating heavy equipment without the appropriate safety standards, and the person doing the rigging and signaling is an essential part of those safety standards. Keep your crews safe by providing the training they need and make it happen by letting ATS travel to your site for custom training.

Have you seen that reality TV show, Railroad Alaska? Anyone interested in heavy equipment will be fascinated by the portrayal of all the big machines that are needed to keep the railroad functional. And it’s true that for many folks, the railroad is the lifeline of communication through the wilderness. Of course, the directors seem to think that “human drama” is what sells the show, but I bet a lot of viewers watch because they love watching big machinery get a job done right. Who wouldn’t want to watch a cannon blast an avalanche loose so the excavator can move it off the tracks?

The show demonstrates something that many often miss; it takes a lot of different types of machinery to do things. In this case, a railroad is more than trains. Businesses often rely on more types of heavy equipment than most people realize.  This is why ATS offers Specialized Training.

We can come to your site or you can come to our training site and get training, testing, qualification, certification, and even licensing in the exact area it needed for the equipment you use. It will be OSHA compliant and meet NCCCO and NCCER standards. We know the industry because we’ve been in operation since 1959, but we haven’t stagnated. We’ve strengthened.

Customized training and specialized curricula are part of our strengths:

• we can train your employees for the work you do with the heavy equipment you use
• we can meet regulatory, insurance, and safety requirements 
• we can help you be productive and profitable

That Railroad Alaska TV show is a showcase for the need to train heavy equipment operators expertly so they can do an important job safely and well. If those guys didn’t know what they were doing, it’d be terrible.

Associated Training Services and ATS Specialized recognized early on those employers who hire truck drivers and heavy equipment operators have specialized needs. Not all construction companies and heavy equipment employers are the same. Some have very specific needs that cannot be addressed by the open market.

That’s why we introduced our employer-specific training courses.

With our employer-specific training, we’ll come to your work site (or you can come to our facilities – but it’s often more efficient for us to come to you) and train your employees on the equipment you need them to know how to operate. This is a great training option when you have several employees who need the same type of training.

The alternative is, you pay for transportation for all of your employees to come to Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, pay for their lodging while they are here, and then pay for the training. It’s much less expensive to let us come to you.

You can get the training you need for all of your employees much cheaper.

We provide training for a group of employees on essentially any heavy equipment you may use on your work sites. We’ll provide training for qualification and for certification on crane operations, rigging, signalperson, truck driving, and all the standard heavy equipment. Our training classes are OSHA-compliant and we guarantee your satisfaction. Employees will receive certification from a nationally accredited training school.

Learn more about our employee-specific on-site training options today.

Sometimes an employer needs specialized training for their employees. Associated Training Services is capable of providing that training on-site or at our location.

Since 1959, ATS has been training truck drivers and heavy machine operators on a variety of equipment. Our reputation is based on our long-standing success in delivering this training and meeting the needs of employers in the industry. We provide skills-oriented training for employers in the following areas:

• NCCCO Crane Operator Training, Testing and Certification
• OSHA Compliant Rigging & Signal Person Training, Testing and Qualification
• NCCER Heavy Equipment Training, Testing and Qualification
• Class-A CDL Commercial Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing

Employer-specific specialized training can take place in a number of ways. Our training programs include training on backhoes, bulldozers, wheel loaders, excavators, scrapers, articulated dump trucks, motor graders, all-terrain forklifts, mobile hydraulic cranes, lattice boom cranes, articulated boom cranes, and commercial motor vehicles. We also provide CDL testing for employees who want to become truck drivers. This training can be rolled into your employer-specific specialized training curriculum.

In essence, ATS builds a curriculum around your employee’s needs. Our training initiatives are designed to improve their skill levels while meeting your needs as employer.

For more information about the ATS Employer-Specific Specialized Training package, visit our website.