With a Transportation Specialist High Skills Major, students focus on a career path to match their skills and interests in this sector.
By making courses more relevant to students, kids get a better understanding of the Transportation sector because they learn it in a real world environment.
Students learn on the job with employers through Co-op and Experiential Learning opportunities, as well as in school. At graduation they receive a specially designated diploma.
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A Transportation SHSM may be for you if you are interested in any of the following careers:
Apprenticeship Training
- Alignment and Brakes Technician
- Auto Body Repairer
- Automotive Painter - Motor Vehicle Repair
- Automotive Service Technician
- Marine Engine Mechanic
- Motorcycle Technician
- Parts Technician
- Recreation Vehicle Service Technician
- Truck and Coach Technician
- Truck and Transport Vehicle Mechanic
College
- Air Pilot
- Industrial Designer
- Industrial Engineering Technician
- Marine Engine Technician
- Mechanical Engineering Technologist
- Navigation Officer
- Water Transport
- Supervisors, Motor Transport, and Other Ground Transit Operators
- Quality Control Assembly Inspector
- Automotive/Marine Engines
University
- Aerospace Engineer
- Automotive Engineer
- Industrial Designer
- Urban Planner
Workplace
- Aircraft Assembler and Aircraft Assembly Inspector
- Airport Ramp Attendant
- Automobile Salesperson
- Automotive Mechanical Installers and Services
- Boat Assembler and Inspector
- Boat Operator
- Bus Driver, Subway Operator, and Other Transit Operator
- Car Lot Attendant
- Delivery and Courier Service Drivers
- Heavy Equipment Operators (except Crane)
- Railway Track Maintenance Worker
- Service Station Attendant
- Tire Repairer
A Transportation SHSM will provide students with an assortment of the following
TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS specific to the Transportation sector:
- Standard First Aid
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation CPR - Level A
- WHMIS
- Health and Safety - basic
- Air Brake
- All-Terrain Vehicle Safety
- CAD/CAM
- Customer Service
- Dare to Care - Vehicle Sales and Services
- Drive Clean
- Environmental Spill
- Ergonomics
- Fall Protection
- Filling Propane and Motor Fuel Tanks
- Fire Extinguisher Use
- Lift Truck Safety
- Lockout/Tagging
- Original Equipment Manufacturer's Training
- Ozone Depletion
- Pleasure Craft Operator