Each year, Cat ® and taking part dealerships placed on the Dealer Top Apprentice Program, a worldwide competitors that evaluates and honors the abilities of young service technicians. Jared Pankratz, a service technician representing Gregory Poole Equipment Company, won the 2023 Dealer Top Apprentice Program on Feb. 23, 2024.
The Dealer Top Apprentice Program has actually been running given that 1979, with ThinkBIG graduates being consisted of in the competitors given that 2017. Each year, fourth-year apprentices are evaluated and after that picked from all over the world to take part. The most current program was held at the Melbourne Learning Centre in Australia.
Pankratz is a Technician II at Gregory Poole’s place in Mebane, North Carolina, and he took a trip to Australia to participate in the program. An overall of 10 apprentices from various dealerships were picked to contend versus one another; 7 individuals were from ANZI and 3 individuals, consisting of Pankratz, were from the ThinkBIG Americas areas.
The 2023 Dealer Top Apprentice Program happened over several days, and apprentices took part in discussions and visitor speaker panels while being scored through understanding evaluations and a series of abilities tests including various kinds of equipment and customer support.
Feb. 23 marked the last day of the program, and its conclusion was commemorated with an awards event. Numerous award winners were acknowledged consisting of the program’s leading reward of being called the general winner of the ANZI and ThinkBIG classifications. Pankratz was revealed as the leading apprentice in the ThinkBIG competitors, turning into one of 2 general winners of the 2023 Dealer Top Apprentice Program.