Operating Engineers Training Trust Local 12

Recognizing Women in Construction week!💪🏼👷‍♀️👷🏽‍♀️👷🏻‍♀️👷🏾‍♀️

Please visit our website at www.oett.net for information regarding our Apprenticeship Program opening for applications this August.
www.oett.net/apprenticeship-home

Our Apprenticeship Program is now open for applications until August 30, 2022 ending at 3:30 pm PST. Please visit www.oett.net to complete a online application.

For more information regarding our Apprenticeship Program please visit: www.oett.net/apprenticeship-home

Please visit our website at www.oett.net for information regarding our Apprenticeship Program opening for applications this August.

www.oett.net/apprenticeship-home

Devore Training site received a new toy on Friday. Welcome our new 75 ton RT crane to the fleet!!!

Images from 5 years ago at our Devore Training site. These were taken for a pair of banners we put together to be used at job fairs.

Hope everyone is staying safe and maintaining Social Distancing. When this ends your Training Trust will be ready to resume Apprentice and Journeyman training.

I know many of you are working on essential projects so please stay safe out there. We at the Training Trust will have everything ready to go when it's time to return. These 2 Red Tail Hawks perched on the Tower Crane are keeping watch over the Devore training site.

The OETT took part in the 2nd annual American Cancer Society Big Dig Inland Empire on Saturday March 7th. It was a great event promoting all the work done by the Cancer Society. Our instructors and coordinators helped the kids enjoy their time on the mini excavators. The event was attended by Business Manager Ron Sikorski.

Inspection Applicants sharpening their skills and getting ready for their new careers. 💪🏼🇺🇸

Our Training Trust family lost one of its favorite sons this past Wednesday, January 29th. Rene Castellanos past away at UCLA Medical Center, due to complications related to a lung transplant. His 36 year membership in Local 12 began with his apprenticeship in January of 1984, becoming a Journeyman January 1st 1987. Rene worked as a mechanic in the Dirt Industry for Ebenstiener, Sukut, Skanska, and Yeager. In February of 1996 he was hired by Director, Bert Tolbert as an Instructor and mechanic for the Training Trust where he spent the next 24 years. During that time he served in the field at March AFB, Moreno Valley, and the Rincon site in San Diego. He instructed Mechanic apprentices in all subjects including welding and fabrication. In addition to those classes he taught Hazmat and OSHA 10. In January of 2014 he was promoted by Director of Training, Larry Hopkins, to Apprentice Coordinator for District 5 in Redlands. In March 2016 Rene took over the responsibilities of Equipment Superintendent working out of the Whittier shop. He will be greatly missed by the hundreds of apprentices he influenced, and all of us lucky enough to have worked next to him. Rene is survived by his wife Priscilla, and his daughter Brittney.

SBSD MudRun 2019 On November 16th 2019 the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department held their annual Mud Run. The course was built and hydrated by the So Cal operating Engineers Training…