Heavy equipment students gain ground and build careers at NIC
A North Idaho College Workforce Training Center heavy equipment operation student sits behind the wheel of a front-end loader while speaking to another student during a training session Friday, June 15 at the NIC Parker Technical Education Center in Rathdrum.
Photo courtesy NIC
RATHDRUM — A lot of dirt has moved over the past few weeks at North Idaho College’s Parker Technical Education Center and so have the futures of students there learning to turn heavy equipment skills into construction careers.
Students in NIC Workforce Training Center’s five-week, intensive Heavy Equipment Operator Training Program have climbed into loaders, excavators, road rollers and other equipment, learning to safely operate the machines that help build roads, job sites and communities.
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