Manufacturing

The Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program in Manufacturing gives students an opportunity to specialize, gain qualifications, and plan a career pathway in various areas of the Manufacturing sector while still in high school. The SHSM Program has a number of required components, designed to give students a “leg-up” to pursue post-secondary opportunities in each of the identified sectors, valuing apprenticeship, college, university and work.  In Ontario, the manufacturing sector employs the most people and the production of consumer and industrial goods are essential for the province’s prosperity. Although the manufacturing sector remains a powerhouse in our economy, the sector is undergoing fundamental changes as it refocuses it’s strategy and remains competitive in a global economy.