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Apprenticeships

Have a great employee that you want to support as they develop their trade? Trade Related Instruction Programs at Delta College are designed in partnership with local industry leaders to provide top-notch training to great employees.

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We'll help you create semi-customized education plans so in the end, your employee gains the skills and knowledge you need them to have for your business, and they learn a trade.

We currently provide the region's apprentices with training in fields such as:

  • Electrician
  • Instrumentation
  • Jobbing Molder
  • Machine Builder
  • Machine Repair
  • Mechatronics
  • Millwright
  • Pattern Maker
  • Pipefitter
  • Plumber
  • Stationary Boiler Engineering
  • Tinsmith
  • Tool/Die Maker

How to sponsor an apprentice student

What's the first step? Let's talk about your needs and how Delta can help.

  1. Contact the Apprenticeship Office at 989-686-9476 or apprenticeship@delta.edu  to create a  Related Technical Instruction Program for your apprentice (employee).
  2. Your employee will complete an online admissions application for Delta College and the additional student steps needed to be eligible for enrollment in courses.  
  3. Provide a Company Sponsorship Letter for your employee (apprentice)
  4. Provide a Apprenticeship Release of Information form completed by your employee.
  5. Review upcoming schedule of classes and submit a registration authorization form.

  • Students in Electrical lab
    State-of-the-art equipment

    Wide variety of hands-on educational settings that include state-of-the-art equipment. Electrician and mechatronics apprentices train to solve real world problems on programmable logic controllers.

  • Student in Auto lab
    Related Technical Instruction Programs

    In cooperation with industry, these programs provide the instruction to strengthen theoretical knowledge in each trade area. The combination of related technical instruction and on-the-job learning is essential in providing a complete program to train skilled personnel for the trades. Many courses are offered during the evening.

Employers... is an apprenticeship right for you? Ask yourself these questions:
  • Do you have job openings that are consistently hard to fill?
  • Do you have positions with high turnover rates?
  • Is your current skilled workforce reaching the age of retirement?
  • Are you having difficulty attracting new and more diverse talent pools?
  • Does your current workforce need help keeping pace with industry advancements?

If you answered 'Yes!' to any of these questions, you should consider apprenticeship. For help getting started, contact the Apprenticeship Office.