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Title: Automotive Trades


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Automotive Trades
  • The Collision Repair Industry

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Thank you for joining us today. This session is
meant to give you an idea of the opportunities
and challenges in the collision industry
today.Please ask questions if you have any and
if we cant answer them today, we will do our
best to help find those answers.
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Who We Are
  • Chelsea Stebner, Office Manager at Parr Auto Body
  • 10 years in the collision industry
  • Began my career as a receptionist at a large
    truck centre.
  • My job includes scheduling, estimating, customer
    service, production, A/R, payroll, and more.
  • In a small business, you do whatever it takes to
    get the job done.

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Who We Are
  • Don Pogoda, Production Manager at Parr Auto Body
  • 25 years in the trade (refinish background with
    special interest in the technical side of
    painting), but has done everything from
    detailing, prepping, painting to management.
  • My job includes estimating, production
    organization, parts, SGI liason, customer
    service.

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Opportunities Challenges
  • The Collision Industry in Saskatchewan

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  • There are approximately 75 shops in the Saskatoon
    area!
  • 20 of those shops do 80 of the work.
  • We have a very large number of dealership owned
    shops in our city competing with the smaller,
    independently owned shops.
  • There are ALWAYS shops looking for qualified
    journeypersons.

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  • If you are a qualified journeyperson technician
    in Saskatchewan, you probably have your pick of
    jobs at most shops and can also name your price!

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A young person wanting to become an apprentice
faces numerous obstacles such as
  • Low paying entry level jobs.
  • Shops not wanting to put the effort into teaching
    an apprentice as it strains the shops financial
    capabilities.
  • Difficulty getting into pre-employment at SIAST.
  • Many young people these days are used to getting
    what they want when they want and many lack the
    confidence and perseverance to push through the
    hard stuff at the beginning and make it to the
    next level.

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.and last but not least
  • Fast money and a fast paced lifestyle are
    calling!
  • The pull of Alberta and the quick money in the
    oil rigs calls our young people of Saskatchewan
    away.
  • When they get tired of it, they lack the skills
    for their next step in life.

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Industry Opportunities
  • Computers/Software Sales
  • Estimator
  • Educator (SIAST, I Car)
  • Adjustor
  • Parts Person
  • Detailer
  • Management/Accounting/Office
  • Mechanical Technicians
  • Suppliers and Sales People

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  • Refinish Skills
  • A Colour Blindness Test
  • The majority of Refinish Technicians are male but
    did you know that females see colour much better?

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The individual with normal color vision will see
a 5 revealed in the dot pattern. An individual
with Red/Green (the most common) color blindness
will see a 2 revealed in the dots.
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Salary Opportunities
  • As an industry, we are not regulated in any way
    as far as paying our apprentices or
    journeypersons.
  • Each shop decides on its own what each employee
    may be worth.
  • On average, an apprentice may start out around
    10.00 per hour.
  • A journeyperson wage would be around 18 - 20
    per hour.

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Ways to pay our Technicians
  • Depending on how a technician is paid, he or she
    could potentially make 60,000 plus per year.
  • May shops use a flat rate system of pay which
    means a technician would bet paid per piece.

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  • Flat Rate is regulated by using a computerized
    estimating system called Mitchell Ultramate
    Estimating.
  • For example If Mitchell states that it takes
    2.2 hours to Remove Replace a bumper, thats
    what a technician will get paid regardless of
    whether it took him 1.0 hour or 3.0 hours.
  • This system works great for a seasoned technician
    who is very efficient at their job.
  • On the other hand, it is more difficult for a
    young technician to work flat rate as the
    experience and efficiency is not there yet.

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  • Many shops are moving away from flat rate into a
    regular hourly wage or a Team Based Pay Plan
    which pays a group rate based on the hours
    produced in shop. That way, how the technicians
    are being paid is based on how efficiently and
    accurately they are working.

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  • Regardless of which way a shop pays its
    technicians, it is getting more difficult to find
    a technician and pay them what they are truly
    worth and still leave enough room for the shop to
    profit.
  • As a small business in Saskatchewan, we are
    constantly competing with government and Alberta
    wages.
  • Most shops in our industry try to provide a good
    wage, decent hours, weekends off and health and
    dental benefits.

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Education
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Why join the Collision Repair Industry?
  • Do you like vehicles?
  • Are you motivated to learn and earn?
  • Are you artistic?
  • Do you like computers?
  • Do you like to be challenged?
  • Do you want to work in a motivated team
    environment?

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Pre Employment
  • SIAST pre- employment gives an individual
    beginners knowledge of the industry. It is
    approximately 10 months of school before
    beginning apprenticeship.

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Apprenticeship
  • Apprenticeship training is an earn while you
    learn arrangement between an employee and
    employer.
  • Under a certified journeypersons supervision, an
    apprentice will receive knowledge and develop
    hands on skills in our trade.

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  • The on the job skills learned are supplemented
    with 4 levels of technical training.
  • Many employees will help apprentices by topping
    up their wages while they are in school.
  • At SIAST, there are a number of scholarships
    available for apprentices including
  • 3 Centennial Merit Scholarships (full tuition for
    a pre-employment student) two sponsored by SAAR
    and the provincial government and the third one
    sponsored by SABA.
  • A Tool Award which is 1500 worth of tools to be
    won in a Skills Competition, sponsored by SABA,
    Acklands and Westward Tools.

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  • Skills Canada Competition
  • Provincial
  • National
  • International
  • For apprentices in most trades
  • Measures skill level, efficiency and knowledge of
    the trade
  • Opportunity for travel
  • Interaction with other trades

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Hiring apprentices helps our mature workforce
pass on knowledge and experience to the younger
generation.
  • For shops, it makes good business sense to invest
    in on-the-job training as it builds our workforce
    and meets the needs of skilled technicians in our
    industry.

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The Future of Our Industry
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  • Lack of skilled tradespeople and declining
    enrollments in apprenticeships.
  • We have a mature and aging workforce.
  • We must encourage our young people that trades
    are a viable option for their careers.
  • There are great opportunities for advancement in
    a shop, technical positions, management and
    ownership.

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  • Lots of shops now provide
  • CLEAN work space
  • Vacuum Extraction
  • Fresh Air Masks
  • User Friendly Products
  • Ergonomic Tools
  • Computerized estimating
  • Computerized frame equipment
  • Computerized wheel alignments

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  • Environmental Concerns with product we use.
  • By 2009, we will be required to paint with
    water-based colour coat.
  • After the water-based colour coat is implemented,
    it wont be long until the clear coat will be
    water based as well.
  • The changes in the refinish products costs us
    time and money in training, product switchover,
    safety and more.

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  • Advancements in vehicle design.
  • Collision repair facilities are faced with the
    continuing need to invest in new equipment and
    technology and the knowledge and skill levels
    of their employees in order to keep up.

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  • An example of the technology changing is
  • If an airbag blows on a Dodge Grand Caravan, the
    steering column must be replaced.
  • If an airbag blows on many Nissan vehicles, the
    seatbelts must be replaced.
  • We have to be able to find this information with
    the click of a button and our technicians must be
    savvy enough to know what to look for!

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Computers
  • Most shops are now computerized.
  • Our shops uses about 4 different software
    programs on a daily basis.
  • The costs are huge for software, hardware and
    training.

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  • Costs of doing business are continually going up
    while net profit goes down.
  • Our industry is very regulated by the provincial
    government so we have a small window to make an
    honest living.
  • SGI regulates how much we can charge for the work
    we do!
  • Collision centres across Canada have an average
    net profit of approximately 4.
  • We MUST continually strive to repair vehicles
    better, faster and cheaper in order to be a
    viable business in this province and industry.

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What a shop like ours looks for in an employee
  • Attitude
  • Work Ethic
  • Team Spirit
  • Determination
  • Honesty
  • Integrity
  • Initiative

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Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule
to come listen to us. We hope you have found it
informative and we welcome you to our shop for a
tour anytime.
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Websites of Interest
www.parrautobody.com www.saskapprenticeship.ca w
ww.siast.sk.ca www.carsyouth.ca www.cars-council
.ca
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