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EDUCATION & TRAINING

Currently, the Roswell Job Corps Center offers training in seven different vocations. During the Career Preparation Period, students are given the opportunity to determine their first, second, and third vocational choices. They visit each of their chosen three vocations and participate in some “hands- on” activities.

They are scheduled for two class periods in each of their choices. This provides them with the opportunity to discover their own interests, aptitudes, and preferences relating to a wide range of employment paths.

Following is a list of the seven vocations and information about each:

Automotive

Culinary Arts

Electrical Wiring

Facilities Maintenance

Health Occupations

Painting

Protective Services




Automotive

The Automotive trade provides students with automotive repair training in the following areas:

Service Apprentice

  • Employability skills
  • Safety (Comply with OSHA HAZMAT requirements)
  • Lubrication, filters, and fluids
  • General maintenance
  • Electrical and accessory maintenance
  • General electrical testing
  • Tire maintenance
  • Brake service
  • Suspension maintenance
  • Exhaust systems
  • Battery, starter and alternator service

Heating, Ventilation-Air Conditioning

  • Employability skills
  • A/C system diagnosis and repair
  • Refrigeration system component diagnosis and repair
  • Heating and engine cooling systems diagnosis and repair
  • Operating systems and related controls diagnosis and repair
  • Refrigerant recovery, recycling, and handling

Engine Performance/Emission Technician

  • Employability skills
  • General engine diagnosis
  • Computerized engine controls diagnosis and repair
  • Ignition system diagnosis and repair
  • Fuel, air induction, and exhaust systems diagnosis and repair
  • Emissions control systems diagnosis and repair
  • Engine related service

Brake Technician

  • Employability skills
  • Hydraulic system diagnosis and repair
  • Drum base diagnosis and repair
  • Disc brake diagnosis and repair
  • Power assist units diagnosis and repair
  • Anti-lock brake systems
  • Miscellaneous (Wheel bearings, parking brakes, electrical, etc) diagnosis and repair
  • Rear axle diagnosis and repair

Suspension and Steering Technician

  • Employability skills
  • Steering systems diagnosis and repair
  • Suspension systems diagnosis and repair
  • Wheel alignment diagnosis, adjustment, and repair
  • Wheel and tire diagnosis and repair
  • Drive and half shaft universal and constant-velocity (CV) joint diagnosis and repair


Culinary Arts

In the Culinary Arts vocation, students learn the following:
  • Employability Skills
  • Sanitation and Safety, to include Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)

Cooking:

  • Prepare and store vegetables and fruits
  • Prepare breakfast dishes
  • Prepare salads and dressing
  • Prepare convenience foods
  • Prepare pastas, dried legumes, and other starches
  • Cook vegetables

Identify, select, and prepare meat, poultry, and seafood using specific cooking methods:

  • Roasting, baking, sautéing, grilling, broiling, braising, and stewing.
  • Prepare soups
  • Prepare appetizers

Baking:

Identify products of a bake station

  • Yeast breads, rolls, and quick breads
  • Cakes and cookies
  • Pies and pastries

Front of the House: Customer service, appropriate table setting, bussing tables etc.

  • Nutritious and nutritional cooking
  • Food management

Catering

Provides student with additional food industry skills in fine dining.

  • Set up appropriate table setting for formal buffets and sit-down dinners
  • Customer Services
  • On-Center special events
  • Nonprofit organizations in the community
  • Serve up to four course meals

Graduates from Culinary Arts are qualified to work in the following positions:

  • Cook’s Helper
  • Salad, sandwich, or short-order cook
  • Hotel/Restaurant Cook
  • School, hospitals, or other institution cook
  • Baker’s helper

Advanced Culinary Arts Training:

  • Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco, California



Electrical Wiring

Electrical students are taught the following:

  • Basic electric theory
  • Residential and commercial wiring
  • Lighting and device installations
  • Use and care of electrical tools
  • Use of cables, conductors, and cords
  • National Electric Code terminology
  • Conduit bonding
  • Blueprint reading and more

Electrical graduates are qualified to work with the following:

  • Builders
  • Electrical contractors
  • Electrical apprenticeship programs
  • Supply companies
  • Oil field companies and other



Facilities Maintenance


Students in this vocational trade are taught the following:
  • Plumbing
  • Electrical wiring
  • Painting
  • Carpentry
  • Floor covering
  • Heating, cooling, and ventilation systems

Facilities Maintenance graduates are qualified to do work in the following fields:

  • Hotels, schools, hospitals, and other public buildings
  • Apartment maintenance
  • Home remodeling
  • Private business operators

Health Occupations

Students in the Health Occupation vocation will learn about the following:
  • Employability Skills
  • Safety and emergency procedures
  • The human body healing and aging procedures
  • Patient positioning and moving techniques
  • Infection control
  • The role of a nurse assistant
  • Physical, social, and emotional needs of patients in long-term care
  • Patients’ legal rights
  • Taking and recording vital signs
  • Admitting, discharging, and transferring patients

Modifying care for patients with special needs

  • Acute patient care
  • Home health care
  • Nutrition, fluids, and physical comfort
  • Maintaining accurate records

Upon the completion of Health Occupations Training, students will be eligible to take the New Mexico State exam. Students who successfully pass the written and the “hands-on” exams receive a Certified Nursing Assistant certificate.

Graduates from the Health Occupations Trade are qualified to work in the following fields:

  • Home health aide
  • Acute care nurse assistant
  • Long term nurse assistant
  • Community health aide assistant
  • Home care-giver

*Students must be 17 years old to enroll in this program.


Painting

Students in the Painting vocation are taught the following:

  • Employability skills
  • Safety
  • Lead hazard awareness
  • Trade basics
  • Tools and equipment
  • Surface preparation
  • Paints and coatings
  • Spray painting

Painting students are qualified to work in the following fields:

  • Paint Stores
  • Painting contractors
  • Construction companies
  • Apprenticeship programs


Protective Services

The opportunities for a rewarding and successful career in the protective and security industry have grown at a terrific rate in the past few years. Whether the student is interested in a career as a security officer, detention officer, military, law enforcement, or wish to gain knowledge in other aspects of protective services, this training has something for everyone.

Students in the trade learn the following:

  • Employability skills
  • Physical fitness and safety skills
  • How to operate and maintain security related equipment
  • How to integrate and apply laws and regulations
  • How to conduct investigations
  • Courtroom procedures
  • Learn about employment opportunities in law enforcement

Graduates of the Protective Services trade are qualified to work in the following fields:

  • Private security companies
  • Adult correctional facilities
  • Juvenile correctional facilities
  • Radio dispatch
  • Would be eligible for law enforcement training, and advanced career training at ENMU-R


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