Not just a job, a profession.
Insulators Local 34 offers a four-year state-indented apprenticeship program, combining a rigorous curriculum with extensive on-the-job training under expert mechanical insulators.
Upon program completion, apprentices become proficient mechanical insulators, capable of handleing demandiing theremal and cooling mechanical insulation projects. Trained by top professionals, these mechincal inuslators are equipped with advanced skills, problem-solving strategies, and knowledge to meeting challenging insulation demands. Graduates do not just have jobs- they have careers within a community committed to maintaining high standards in an essential, ever growing in-demand field.
The Apprenticeship Program
Each apprentices dedicates 172 hours annually to a comprehensive curriculum taught by 1-2 instructors per year, with weekly assessments and annual exams. Coursework covers four critical areas:
- Installation process
- Material Layout
- Job Specifications
- Blueprint Reading
On-the-Job Training
Apprentices gain real-world experience in mechanincal insulation, rotating through assignments with leading contractors to learn and refine skills across vaired installations. Paid for their work, apprentices receive wage increases every 2,000 hours:
- First year: 63%
- Second year: 72%
- Third year: 81%
- Fourth year: 90%
Apprentices graduated the training program as fully qualified mechanical insulators, ready to work in diverse thermal and cooling environments.
Interested in Signing Up?
As with everything, there is a process:
- Interested indivuals must submit an application in our online JAC form. After a person has expressed interest and has signed up with Joint Apprenticeship Comittee, their name will be added to list of registrants. PLEASE NOTE: This is not an announcement of employment, nor one of apprenticeship vacancy. The Joint Apprenticeship Committee will maintain a list of all registrants. If opportunities develop, only persons that have registered will be considered.
- There is a work component. Pre-apprentice candidates must work a minimum of 160 hours in the field as a permit helper. If you or someone you know is interested in the apprenticeship program and would like to get experience as a "permit helper" in the field, he/she must come to the hall and fill out a permit helper dues authorization form; this can be done at any time, but must accompany signing up as a pre-apprentice on the date(s) specified above. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older, bring their driver's license, provide their Social Secruity Number and if they have OSHA 10 or 30 training, bring along a certificate of completion.
**Signing up as a permit helper DOES NOT guarantee employment or placement within the apprenticeship program. Permit helpers MUST sign up for the pre-apprenticeship program - see above. Permit helpers will not be considered for work opportunities if they have not signed up with the apprenticeship program during pre-apprentice sign up date(s). Furthermore: Permit helpers are not to call or solicit work from the officers or hall staff. If there is a call out for work opportunities, we will contact applicants as work becomes available. - There is an interview process with the Joint Apprenticeship Committee, which is announced by the J.A.C. to eligible pre-apprentice candiates.
- Finally, there is a skills assessment, which requires eligible candidates to perform basic arithmetic.
If you have any further questions about the process or what work as an Insulator entails, please contact Local 34 Apprenticeship Coordinator Jordon King via phone or email.
Phone: 651-312-1249
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