Our program is a four-year, 6,000-hour program of hands-on, classroom, computer and on-the-job training.
An apprentice earns an hourly wage as well as hourly benefits with advancements approximately every 6 months. As an apprentice, you’ll be paid while dispatched and working at a jobsite. However, during classroom and supplemental training, you will not be paid.
Apprentice duties include welding, rigging, working with cranes, blueprint reading, cutting, burning, fitting and whatever is needed to work side-by-side with a Journeyman to learn the trade.
As an apprentice, you will reach the competency nationwide of becoming a certified welder with our contractors. You will be challenged to become the 6% of Code ASME pressure vessel welders in many of our industries. The demand for combo welders in processes like GTAW (heli-arc), FCAW (wire-feed), SMAW (stick),not to mention exotic metal welding and mirror welding is imperative to our industry. We truly look forward to handing you the trade skills in our curriculum to become a valuable asset to the Boilermakers as well to get certified in at least SMAW process before graduating from our program.