For Service Members

A Fast-Track to a Rewarding Skilled Trades Career

Transition to Trades offers a fast, convenient, and affordable path to a career in the skilled trades. In just four weeks, participants complete 100 hours of hands-on and classroom training, including real-world experience through “ride-alongs” with professional contractors. The program is designed for active military members, allowing them to train while still in service, and offers nationwide HVAC certification. With potential GI Bill© coverage, there may be no out-of-pocket costs. Graduates benefit from high demand for technicians, cutting-edge training, and guaranteed interviews with top contractors.

Why Attend

Transition to Trades?

Provide respected career

  • Complete your training and “ride-alongs” while you’re still in the military
  • We specialize in hands-on training! 80% of your time will be skills training in a state of the art lab, with another 20% of your time dedicated to classroom time
  • Real life experience when you participate in “ride-alongs” with our professional contractors
  • HVAC certification qualifies you for work nationwide (EPA certification)

Affordable

  • There are no out-of-pocket expenses to participate.

  • Your training is fully covered by your GI Bill® benefits.

  • You can begin training while still on active duty.

  • Rapid job placement helps reduce downtime between service and your new career.

  • You won’t pay any additional certification fees.

Learn Quickly

  • Short Program: 4 weeks, five days a week, totaling 100 hours and 20 days of combined classroom and lab work
  • You’ll develop in-demand skills through an accelerated training program.

  • Hands-on learning starts from day one.

  • You’ll gain real-world experience working alongside industry experts.

  • The curriculum is focused and tailored to your specific trade.

Solid Career Future

  • Solid career future – There is high demand for professional technicians!
  • State-of-the-art training with the latest equipment, tools & technology!
  • An opportunity to work with the top 2% of the nation’s contractors
  • Employment opportunities await you upon graduation, and guaranteed interviews will be set up for you!

Available Courses

HVAC Service
Protocol

The HVAC Service Protocol course is a 100-hour, comprehensive, no nonsense, educational path for the serious learner. Total Tech’s unique 21st century learning approach prepares the student with the most practical service procedures in the most efficient timeframe possible. The student learns modern methodology in our state-of-the-art classrooms and labs. Interactive classroom lessons keep the learners engaged by covering real-life service call scenarios in each session. The daily hands-on lab assignments work in conjunction with the classroom lesson to form the best learning experience. Service call scenarios are commonplace in the classroom and lab environments. In a typical HVAC Service Protocol Course, the student spends 80-hours in the lab and 20-hours in the classroom. Time has proven that this 4-to-1 ratio produces the best learning results with most students. Classroom theory defines the scientific protocol procedures, while lab exercises solidifies the practical application of those procedures.

Plumbing Service
Protocol

Plumbing Service Protocol is a 100-hour course covering every aspect of residential plumbing. Though it may take years to truly master the trade of plumbing, our course lays a complete foundation of the fundamentals that will give a newcomer to the trade all the advantages he needs to quickly build his skills up from a solid base. Each lesson covers the basics and also contains advanced information and experience that will benefit even a seasoned technician. The Total Tech process of hearing theory, seeing demonstrations and then applying those lessons in the laboratory exercise builds competence and confidence into each technician we train in the shortest time possible. The culmination of hundreds of years of collective experience working in the field is distilled into this powerful 100-hour course.

Electrical Service
Protocol

Electrical Service Protocol is a 100-hour course whose mission is to provide the training necessary, for both the novice and experienced electrician, to be successful. In the Electrical Service Protocol course, the student begins by grasping electrical theories and codes presented in the classroom with a combination of lectures and state of the art 3-D simulators. In conjunction with the classroom lessons, the lab exercises reinforce the content presented in the classroom. Total Tech’s lab gives the student the most realistic field experience by allowing them to
completely calculate electrical loads and wire a small residence from the ground up. The lab also includes a high voltage terminating station, a
low voltage terminating station, an emt and a pvc pipe bending station. The trainers have overhead and underground service entrances, plus a
fully functional generator installation station, and an automated troubleshooting station.

HVAC Replacement Protocol

Our HVAC Replacement Protocol class, which is our HVAC Install program, is a 5 day, 40 hour course and will prepare students for proper removal, installation, and start-up of new equipment.  Proper equipment installation and start-up is essential to system operation.  If shortcuts are taken during installation it can create issues in the system causing the customer to call the installing company back for repairs, plus it can potentially shorten the lifespan of the equipment.  Our course teaches the student proper usage of gauges, the recovery process, proper line set sizing, silver brazing, wire sizing, breaker sizing, superheat, sub-cooling, airflow, and much more.  Upon successful completion of the course the
student should be armed with the proper knowledge to remove and replace or install an HVAC system.

Transition to Trades pairs these active duty service members with our industry trade scholl, Total Tech, to provide education and theory taught from a technician's viewpoint. Learn more information about the actual classes that service members attend.