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Travis Laine

Hayden,ID

Summary

With over 16 years at Boilermakers Local 242, I've excelled as both a Union Boilermaker and Apprenticeship Instructor, blending hands-on experience with a dynamic teaching approach. My leadership in advancing apprentice welding skillsets, and creating a collaborative positive learning environment has brought apprentices to the national competition, and bringing more skilled members to our workforce, showing my commitment to training enhancement and Union values.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Apprenticeship Instructor

Boilermakers Local 242
12.2015 - Current
  • I have been the Apprenticeship Instructor at Local 242 for 9yrs.
  • These dates overlap with my work history because I am not full time in the training center, I still go out in the field and perform work and also help run work on outages, I bring these real world experiences back to the classroom and shop for apprentices now and in the future to gain skill and knowledge.
  • I am always working to push the envelope with apprentices in all years, pushing their comfort level and challenging them with harder projects as they start to feel like they are getting good at the current one.
  • I listen to feedback from our members on areas of strength and places that need strengthening.
  • I promote a positive, energetic, and upbeat tempo to the classroom and shop, creating a team environment with the goal being as our apprentices go out to the field they are more likely to jump in and work safely and productively with each other and with journeyman on the crew.
  • I work to create problem solving exercises and projects that take the class working in different crews to bring a project together.
  • I have had the privilege of having two apprentices make it to nationals the last two years, my ultimate goal being to have an apprentice I trained win nationals.
  • I have worked to accelerate the welding processes thru the 4 years of the apprenticeship, I start introducing them to the following years process in the current class they are in, starting with stick plate all positions, then dual shield and hard wire, then carbon tubes and buddy welding, all in the first 2 years. Then stainless tube and elliptical penetrations (including the math) with full penetration welds in the third year and inconel and 9 chrome in the fourth year along with mirror welding and restrictive tube welding for the advanced apprentices.
  • I take pride in challenging the apprentices in a productive beneficial way that will help them gain skill and become a productive member to our Brotherhood.

Union Boilermaker

Local 242
08.2008 - Current
  • I joined Boilermakers Local 242 in August 2008.
  • I completed the Apprenticeship one day short of 2yrs.
  • I competed in the Western States Apprenticeship Competition in 2011 placing 3rd after my almost 2yr. Apprenticeship.
  • I have been a Union Boilermaker for 16+ years with well over 26,000hrs.
  • Since completing my Apprenticeship and becoming a Journeyman I have constantly been pushing myself to continue gaining knowledge and skill to further us as a Union and Craft.
  • I have acquired common arc papers for all of the contractors that have come to 242 which include cs tube, ss tube, cs dual shield, and ss dual shield to cover whatever process is needed in the field to get the job done.
  • I have also acquired extra weld certs from contractors to cover more specialized repair including: 6010 root 7018 fill and cap tube cert, flux core stainless steel tig wire "mud wire" tube cert, inconel overlay with tig and stick.
  • I have taken the Columbia Generating Station (nuclear plant) gate tests which included at the time a 2G-5G make or break with carbon steel, then a 6G stainless tube tigged all the way out, and finished with a 6G inconel tube tigged all the way out, which included passing x-ray.
  • I have been a crew member for AZZ-WSI also at Columbia Generating Station for the dry cask nuclear spent fuel storage project which included taking a heavy wall 6G carbon tube test, then performing welder operating qualifications on the F head remote welder and then qualifying on the remote canister welding head to seal up actual spent fuel cans on the refueling floor which we did 9 of.
  • I have run work as a foreman for several years and the last 5 years I have been a general foreman on several outages at paper mills, coordinating multiple foreman with the scope of work for the given contractor we were working for and keeping to or exceeding the schedule.
  • I have performed mirror welds, extremely restrictive buddy welds, window welds in the bottom of a recovery boiler which included taking a mock-up test before hand which had to pass x-ray to show it could be done, then we did 3 of them.
  • This is a very condensed and to the point synopsis of 16+ yrs of being a Union Boilermaker.


Education

Graduate Apprentice -

BNAP Western States
Local 242

No Degree -

North Idaho College
Coeur D'alene, ID

High School Diploma -

Kootenai High School
Harrison, ID

Skills

  • Positive and upbeat teaching style, adaptable to different personality types to make information more understandable
  • Use real world experience as examples to make teaching content more relatable to the classroom and shop
  • Work to create variations on welding methods and techniques to help apprentices grasp the very unique skill of welding
  • I lead by example, performing whatever weld process in whatever position, right hand or left hand, showing first hand how it can be done in the booth with the apprentice
  • I keep my time in the booth with each apprentice to a reasonable amount, enough for them to get the idea of the process and technique, then observe them performing it and coach and critique along the way, then move to the next apprentice and continue down the line, more hood time and less talking usually has better results
  • Every apprentice learns at a different pace so I create a classroom/shop atmosphere where they can interact together and the ones that are excelling like to help the ones that are struggling, while keeping control so time isn't wasted
  • I am always working to improve my teaching and skillset to bring more to the classroom and shop with the intention of making every year I instruct better than the prior year

Timeline

Apprenticeship Instructor

Boilermakers Local 242
12.2015 - Current

Union Boilermaker

Local 242
08.2008 - Current

Graduate Apprentice -

BNAP Western States

No Degree -

North Idaho College

High School Diploma -

Kootenai High School

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