Student Sponsorship
VHI provides you an opportunity to get paid while you work and earn your Associate's Degree while gaining valuable hands-on experience. When you team up with Vander Haag's as your sponsor, you are able to have your student loans forgiven and kick off a long and rewarding carrer in the heavy duty truck industry.Details
When you partner with Vander Haag's Inc., you help minimize your student loan debt and lock in your start in a high-paying, hands-on job in the disel technology industry. All students that accept a Vander Haag's sponsorship must agree to work with Vander Haag's for a minimum of three years upon graduation from a technical training program. After three years, Vander Haag's Sponsorship is 100% forgiven.- The sponsorship helps support tuition, fees, books, and other required program expenses
- Students enrolling in any of the the following programs are eligible to apply:
- Diesel Technology (Truck or Heavy Equipment)
- Automotive Technology
- Collision Repair & Refinishing
- Welding/Fabrication
Earn up to $76,000!
How the price breaks down:- $53,000 during your first year as a technican.
- $11,000 when you team up with Vander Haag's as your sponsor.
- $2,000 for tool allowance.
- $10,000 paid internship
Other Company-sponsored Perks
- Company owned vacation properties at Okoboji, IA, and Monticello, IN.
- Season tickets to the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals home games.
- Annual department hunting & fishing trips
- Discount on your Verizon cell phone bill.
Employee Benefits
Vander Haag’s, Inc. partners with Oasis, a Professional Employment Organization, for its human resources functions. Oasis services hundreds of small business throughout the United States, thus serving as a co-employer for 20,000+ employees. This allows better leverage for keeping medical plan costs at a competitive rate and allows for larger medical networks. Just another perk of working for Vander Haag’s, Inc. For a full overview of our benefits, Download Our Benefits Overview.- Comprehensive and diverse Medical Plans
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Retirement Savings Plan with a company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Both Health and Dependent Care)
- Paid Time Off including vacation pay, sick pay and holidays
Tool Allowance
Eligility
- A recent graduate from a technical school filling an opening for a technician position in which tools are required.
Allowance Amount & Payment:
- The tool allowance will be paid to new hires during their first year of employment. They will receive $76.93 per pay period, resulting in an overallallowance of $2000 the first year.
Payment Issued:
- The allowance will appear as a line item on the employee’s paycheck and will be taxed as income.
Partner Schools
- NCC (Sheldon, IA)
- Iowa Lakes (Emmetsburg, IA)
- Lake Area Technical Institute (Watertown, SD)
- Wyo Tech (Laramie, WY)
- University of Northwestern Ohio (Lima, OH)
- Ivy Tech (Kokomo, IN)
- Iowa Western Community College (Council Bluffs, IA)
- State Tech (Linn, MO)
- Southeast Technical Institute (Sioux Falls, SD)
- DMACC (Des Moines, IA)
Student Agrees to:
- Meet Enrollment requirements
- Maintain a GPA of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale
- Regularly attend all classes per VHI and the program's attendance policy
- Meet the conduct policies of the technical school
- Authorize the technical school to release information to VHI regarding grades, courses taken, attendance, performance, and conduct issues that might cause the sponsorship to be in jeopardy
- Work in a part-time capacity with Vander Haag's, Inc, while attending classes. Part-time schedules and hours will vary to accomadate class schedules
