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John Trimble

John Trimble

Jul 25, 2026

45:14
and they just want to blow and go,
45:16
right? and that's fine and there is a need for those individuals.
45:22
There's also a slightly more advanced or what I would call a more cognitive higher class pipe fitter.
45:33
And a pipe fitter fusion technician is thinking about how do I square something up? I have a 90, I have a flange, How do I make sure that it's level, it's squared to the assembly, especially if you're going to need to hit a hard point on an above-ground steel fitting or an MJ adapter going into a ductile-type gate valve for an above-ground water infrastructure? So they need to think, well, what fusion do I need to do when? And how do I do that? And so it's a function of technical training and experience that they're thinking ahead.
46:25
You know, do I fuse this 90 in before I fuse the flange adapter on or the MJ adapter on? Or how do I come up with the length of pipe needed for an above ground riser? And so those training modules are field experience and a little bit more advanced.
46:50
And so there is a combination.
46:52
You know, we were asked recently to develop a program for a community college for polyethylene infrastructure built.

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56:13
What one thing could we as an industry do better to keep this thing marching along as great as it has been for the last decade?

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