Millwright School & Courses

Investing in tailored, online training will expand your employees' milling abilities, as well as equip your millwrights with the most advanced skills to install, maintain, dismantle, and move heavy milling machinery with acute expertise.

Penn Foster's self-paced millwright courses provide professional craftsmen with online training experiences and dynamic academic studies to perform as highly qualified individuals committed to your bottom line. Enrolled in a millwright apprenticeship, trainees will concentrate on hydraulic systems, welding and detailed guidelines for milling machinery. Tradesmen trainees learn the necessary skills for the leveling, alignment and erection of industrial machinery at various job sites, from factories and steel mills to assembly plants and construction sites, according to blueprints, layout drawings and other schematics.

Trainees who complete the online millwright training program will also gain knowledge in the following areas:

• Shopdrawing
• Machine-moving equipment and lubricating systems
• Hydraulic lines and air redirection
• Various air compressors, pumps and mechanical power transmissions
• Sheet metal forming, valves and pipefitting
• Oxyacetylene torch installation and machine guards fabrication
• Bearings and seals inspection and replacement abilities
• Welding processes and parts rewelding
• Temporary repair solutions using drilling, welding and metal machinery techniques
• Preventative maintenance, troubleshooting strategies and equipment downtime scheduling