Pipeline tools

Below are templates and tools to help employers develop and track dual-training programs for their employees. The tools can be an effective way to ensure all of the employees participating in dual training are meeting their required trainings and mastering each required competency. If you have questions about the tools or would like us to prioritize new occupations for tool development, contact us at Pipeline.Program@state.mn.us.

Guidance for developing effective on-the-job training. (Download as PDF.)

Skills-based practices

Skills-based practices are an approach to hiring and retaining employees that “focuses on the specific skills needed to succeed in a job, embeds that focus throughout the employee lifecycle (and) recognizes that there are many ways to acquire knowledge and abilities.” 

Dual-training program templates

Advanced manufacturing

• CNC programmer

• Coordinate measuring machine programmer

• Extrusion molding technician

• Flexo technician

• Industrial production manager

• Injection molding technician

• Logistics and supply chain manager

• Machinist CNC

• Machinist/tool and die maker

• Maintenance and repair worker

• Manufacturing engineer

• Manufacturing production supervisor

• Mechatronics technician

• Print press operator

• Quality assurance food safety supervisor

• Quality assurance technician

• Robotics operator

• Safety technician

• Solderer

• Welder

Agriculture

• Agriculture equipment mechanic

• Agriculture finance/lender

• Agronomist

• Applicator technician

• Crop farm manager

• Farm animal manager

• Grain merchandiser

• Horticulture farm manager

• Livestock veterinarian 

• Meat cutter/meat processor

• Quality assurance food safety supervisor

• Swine technician (grow finish)

• Swine technician (sow farm)

Health care services

• Certified nursing assistant

• Chemical dependency and addiction technician

• Community health worker

• Community paramedic

• Critical care nurse

• Dental assistant

• Dental hygienist

• Dental therapist

• Dentist

• Electronic health records

• Emergency room nurse

• EMT to paramedic pathway

• Health support specialist

• Histology technician/technologist

• Licensed alcohol and drug counselor

• Licensed independent clinical social worker

• Licensed practical nurse

• Long-term care facility culinary manager

• Medical assistant

• Medical lab assistant

• Medical laboratory scientist

• Medical laboratory technician

• Occupational therapist

• Ophthalmic technician

• Pharmacy technician

• Phlebotomist

• Physical therapy assistant

• Positive support analyst

• Positive support specialist

• Psychiatric/mental health technician in-patient

• Psychiatric/mental health technician out-patient

• Radiologic technologist

• Registered nurse

• Respiratory therapist

• Surgical technologist

• Wound, ostomy and continency (WOC) nurse

Information technology

• Application developer

• Business intelligence developer/architect

• Cloud architect

• Computer user support specialist

• Data science/artificial intelligence machine learning specialist

• Database administrator

• Information security analyst/specialist

• IT project planner/manager

• Network engineer

• Software engineer/developer

• Testing and quality assurance analyst

• Web developer - back end

• Web developer - front end

Questions?

Contact us at PIPELINE.Program@state.mn.us.