The mission of Ironworkers Apprenticeship and Training Program is to ensure that our union ironworkers have the skills, knowledge, and training necessary to be safe on the jobsite, competitive in the workplace, and satisfied in their careers. Welding and burning equipment are considered tools of the trade.Īs a Local 75 apprentice you will have the instruction and opportunity to become a certified structural welder. Have knowledge of fiber line, wire rope, hoisting equipment and proper hand signals.Operate power hoists, cranes, derricks, forklifts and aerial lifts.Load, unload, move and set machinery, structural steel and curtain walls.Install and erect metal stairways, catwalks, gratings, doors, railings, fencing, elevator fronts and building entrances.Erect curtain wall and window wall systems that cover the steel or reinforced concrete structure of a building.Install metal windows into a building’s masonry or wooden openings.Stress the tendons using hydraulic jacks and pumps after the concrete is poured and hardened.Install post-tensioning tendons (cables) to place in concrete forms along reinforcing steel.Place rebar on appropriate supports and tie them together with tie wire.Fabricate and place steel bars (rebar) in concrete forms to reinforce structures.Erect and install pre-cast beams, columns and panels.Build towers, bridges, stadiums, and prefabricated metal buildings.Work primarily on industrial, commercial and large residential buildings.Unload, erect, and connect fabricated iron beams to form the project skeleton.When you join the apprenticeship you will be trained in the following aspects of the trade. The apprenticeship program includes comprehensive safety training. They must have a good sense of balance and be alert to potential danger to themselves and others. They must be able to meet rigid standards and deadlines. Ironworkers must be willing to work as a team. Each sector involves challenging and difficult work, often on tall structures at high elevations. Graduating apprentices attain journeyman status and receive full pay for the skills they have earned. As an apprentice accumulates an established number of on-the-job hours plus related and supplemental instruction hours, wages are increased at regular intervals. Starting wages for a Local 75 ironworker apprentice begin at 60% of a journeyman’s wage. In addition, they attend classes of related and supplemental instruction, approximately 160 hours per year for four years. Apprenticeship Advantages The Ironworkers apprenticeship program is a well-organized and supervised method of training people to become journeymen ironworkers qualified in all segments of the trade.Īpprentices earn while they learn, working on the job alongside the journeymen.

Welding apprenticeship program