- Two-year (20 months) Diploma with an optional four-month Certificate exit point
- September entry date
- Notre Dame Campus
- Paid co-op work experience (for Diploma students)
Description
Cabinetry and Woodworking Technology is a versatile program offering a variety of learning paths, program outcomes, career paths, and a paid co-op work placement. Students begin by learning about the safe use of the tools and equipment used to produce cabinets, furniture, and other wood products. They will learn about construction and finishing techniques, materials and hardware used, and how to read and create blueprints. Instruction is provided about the functioning of today's woodworking industry and how to work in it. Learning is a blend of workshop practice, computer lab, classroom delivery, and tours. Students will complete a major group project that gives them the opportunity to step into the real world of woodworking.
After Term 1 (16-weeks), successful students may choose one of the following:
- exit the program with a Cabinetry and Woodworking Certificate and enter the workforce. The knowledge and skills acquired will allow the graduate entry-level positions in a cabinet or millwork shop working with the tools and materials to build cabinets and furniture
- continue into Term 2 and work towards acquiring the Cabinetry and Woodworking Technology Diploma
- enter Level 2 of the Cabinetmaker Apprenticeship program (pending approval and completion of Apprenticeship work hours requirement). For details, please contact the Apprenticeship Branch, 1010 - 401 York Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3C 0P8, 204-945-3337 or 1-877-978-7233, e-mail apprenticeship@gov.mb.ca.
Terms 2, 4 and 5 add the technology side of woodworking, and Term 3 an opportunity to experience the industry during the co-op work term. Students who successfully complete the full two years of the Cabinetry and Woodworking Technology program will earn a Cabinetry and Woodworking Technology Diploma, and graduates may begin their career as a Woodworking Technologist. The nature of their work may involve areas of shop floor work, product design and engineering, manufacturing process design and engineering, CAD drafting, CNC (computer numerical control) machine programming and operating, implementing Lean practices, quality assurance, supervision, job cost estimation, and job coordinating.
