Episode 256: Shaping Future Welders with Chris Manning
Podcast Description
A career can change course in seconds. For Chris Manning, it happened when a vision test ended his plan to become a police officer, forcing a reset that eventually led to a journeyperson ticket, B Pressure Welder Certification, and decades shaping trades education in Canada in his current role as the Acting Dean of Trades and Technical Programs at North Island College. We dig into the bigger picture across skilled trades in Canada with industry partnerships, program advisory committees, equipment and consumable support, college funding pressures, capacity limits, and why recruiting great instructors is getting harder when industry wages keep climbing.