Student Learner / Youth Apprenticeship Program
"Earn While You Learn"
Build your future. Gain real-world experience. Get paid while you learn.
Are you interested in manufacturing, machining, or skilled trades? Scot Forge's Student Learner/Youth Apprenticeship Program gives high school students the opportunity to explore rewarding careers through hands-on experience in a world-class manufacturing environment.
You'll work alongside experienced professionals, develop technical and workplace skills, and gain exposure to advanced manufacturing processes while contributing to meaningful projects.
Whether you're planning to attend a technical college, pursue an apprenticeship, or begin your manufacturing career after graduation, this program provides valuable experience that can help set you apart.
What You'll Gain
Potential Learning Areas
Depending on business needs and your interests, you may gain experience in one or more of the following departments:
Qualifications
We're looking for motivated students who are eager to learn and grow.
Requirements:
Work Environment
This position provides real-world experience in an active manufacturing facility.
Student Learners will work in production environments where forklifts, pallet jacks, overhead cranes, and other industrial equipment are operating. Work may occasionally involve exposure to high temperatures, outdoor weather conditions, humidity, airborne particles, and elevated noise levels. Appropriate safety equipment and training are provided.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
Why Scot Forge?
Scot Forge is a 100% employee-owned company that manufactures custom open die and rolled ring forgings. At Scot Forge, we help our customers succeed in their most critical initiatives with forged solutions for everything from the world's physical infrastructure, energy and transportation to manufacturing, mining, and our national defense. From the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover, to mission critical components for nuclear submarines, to large hydraulic cylinders for the largest mining trucks on the planet, Scot Forge creates the precision forged metal parts used in demanding applications all over the world.At Scot Forge, you're more than an employee—you're an owner.
Scot Forge is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employee-owners.
We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform a hair follicle pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Based in Spring Grove, Illinois, U.S.A, Scot Forge has a 130-year plus track record of success. Scot Forge is considered the industry leader in open die forging and rolled ring forging. As the premier provider of high-quality metal forging solutions, we have experts in your specific industry to help deliver the largest range of open die forging capabilities. With five U.S. facilities, including two joint ventures, and more than 1.3 million square feet of manufacturing space, Scot Forge offers the most modern open-die and rolled-ring forge facilities in North America. From the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover to mission-critical components for nuclear submarines to large hydraulic cylinders for the largest mining trucks on the planet, Scot Forge creates the precision forged parts used in demanding applications all over the world.
