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Training CIassifications <br />The Contractor shall provide on the-job training aimed at developing full journeyman level <br />workers in the construction craft/operator positions. Preference shall be given to providing <br />training in the following skilled work classifications: <br />Equipment Operators Office Engineers <br />Truck Drivers Estimators <br />Carpenters Iron /Reinforcing Steel Workers <br />Concrete Finishers Mechanics <br />Pipe Layers Welders <br />The Department has established common training classifications and their respective training <br />requirements that may be used by the contractors. However, the classifications established are <br />not all-inclusive. Where the training is oriented toward construction applications, training will <br />be allowed in lower-level management positions such as office engineers and estimators. <br />Contractors shall submit new classifications for specific job functions that their employees are <br />performing. The Department will review and recommend for acceptance to FHWA the new <br />classifications proposed by contractors, if applicable. New classifications shall meet the <br />following requirements: <br />Proposed training classifications are reasonable and realistic based on the job skill <br />classification needs, and <br />The number of training hours specified in the training classification is consistent with <br />common practices and provides enough time for the trainee to obtain journeyman level <br />status. <br />The Contractor may allow trainees to be trained by a subcontractor provided that the Contractor <br />retains primary responsibility for meeting the training and this provision is made applicable to <br />the subcontract. However, only the Contractor will receive credit towazds the annual goal for the <br />trainee. <br />Where feasible, 25 percent of apprentices or trainees in each occupation, shall be in their first <br />year of apprenticeship or training. The number of trainees shall be distributed among the work <br />classifications on the basis of the contractor's needs and the availability of journeymen in the <br />various classifications within a reasonable area of recruitment. <br />No employee shall be employed as a trainee in any classification in which they have successfully <br />completed a training course leading to journeyman level status or in which they have been <br />employed as a journeyman. <br />-2- <br />