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The Plumbing program at Monty Tech is suited for those students interested in pursuing careers in the plumbing, heating and cooling trades. This popular program exposes students to concepts in water piping and distribution, pipefitting, gas-fitting, sanitary plumbing, and hydronic heating. Students complete a number of shop projects, as well as live work, which includes maintaining the facility at Monty Tech and the school’s annual building project. Students in their Junior and Senior year of study work closely with the talented Monty Tech Plumbing Instructors to design and install the plumbing, heating, and fuel piping in the annual project, highlighting the technical skills they have developed throughout the course of the four-year program.
After graduation students may seek employment in any of the following career pathways:
Students in the Monty Tech Plumbing program have an opportunity to earn a number of certifications and credentials that demonstrate a deep understanding of industry-related safety practices and procedures, making our program graduates more employable. Throughout the 4-year program, Plumbing students may earn the following:
Keene State College, Keene, NH
Plumbing Board of Examiners
Public Comprehensive High School Career/Vocational Technical School Program. An applicant who, as a secondary school student, successfully completes/graduates from a Public Comprehensive High School Career/Vocational Technical School Program following the CVTE (Career Vocational Technical Education) educational standard framework whose program is approved by the Board to meet the requirements of 248 CMR 11.00, may be granted a maximum of the first three tiers, comprising 330 hours of educational theory credit from that program. Additionally, secondary students may accrue a maximum of 1,700 hours of experience credit while enrolled in a Board-approved Massachusetts Public Comprehensive High School Career/Vocational Technical School Program, said experience hours may be accrued as follows:
In a “shop” or “laboratory” facility at the school where the students are under the direct supervision of one or more licensed plumbers who meet the educator licensing requirements of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education;
In a Board-approved, off0campus construction and/or maintenance project overseen by the school, or
After obtaining an apprentice license, in a school arranged co-op employment relationship with a master plumber. Subject to the limitations of 248 CMR 11.00, students working as apprentices are eligible for experience hours above and beyond the 1,700 hours of experience for work experience in a co-op relationship that is documented by the employing master plumber to have occurred outside of normal school hours (such as evenings, weekends, or summers).
Plumber and Pipefitters Local No. 4., West Boylston, MA
