Would YOU like a job with a FUTURE?
A job with:
Excellent Wages
Family Medical Benefits
Retirement Benefits
Training
The Construction Craft Laborer Apprenticeship Program for
Eastern Missouri is your ticket to the above!
A career as a Construction Craft Laborer is for YOU if you like
physically challenging work as part of a team that builds:
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* highways |
*
light-rail systems |
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* bridges |
* airports |
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* sewer systems |
* stadiums |
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* water mains |
* treatment
plants |
* all kinds of buildings, factories, stores
and plants |
Construction Craft Laborers do demolition work on existing buildings and
structures and perform environmental clean-up on jobsites containing:
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hazardous waste |
* asbestos |
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* lead-based paint |
* low-level
radiation |
As a Construction Craft Laborer, YOU would be a vital member of a TEAM
and work with a whole array of power tools and equipment including:
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compactors |
* mixers |
* masonry
forklifts |
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pumps |
* grinders |
* hydraulic
rock drills |
| *
skid-steer loaders |
* eye
levels |
* cut-off
saws |
| *
coring machines |
* welders |
*
level-transits |
| *
jackhammers |
* concrete
saws |
* pavement
breakers |
| *
plasma cutters |
* drills |
* lasers |
| *
pipe fusion machines |
*
oxyacetylene torches |
* concrete
vibrators |
Construction Craft Laborers must be:
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reliable |
*
dependable |
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responsible |
* versatile |
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innovative |
*
enthusiastic |
* extremely safety conscious
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Educational Requirements:
| If you want to become a Construction
Craft Laborer, you need to possess |
| good math, human relations and
communication skills, and be able to |
| read a rule. You must be able to work
as a part of a TEAM and you must |
| enjoy working outdoors. |
As a Construction Craft Laborer Apprentice you will complete:
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288-368 hours of
off-the-job related skill training at the Laborers-AGC Training Center. The Training
Center is a campus style facility situated on 175 acres east of High Hill, Missouri - the
Center has its own dormitory housing, laundry facilities, classrooms, outdoors 'hands-on'
areas, student lounge, recreation room, dining hall (even a lake for after hours
recreation). |
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4,000 hours of on-the-job
training under supervision of a qualified and competent journey level laborer. |
| Applications are accepted
throughout the year on Tuesdays |
| through Thursdays between the hours
of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. |
| at the LABORERS-AGC Training
Center (High Hill, MO). |
DIRECTIONS: The LABORERS-AGC
Training Center is located approximately 55 miles west of Lambert St. Louis
International Airport
on the south side of Interstate 70, 1 mile east of High Hill (exit 179) |
Applicants must bring proof
of age (18 years of age or older), and proof of |
| education (completion
of grade 12). Applicants are provided with a list of |
| contractors that are eligible to employ
apprentices and must obtain a |
| written offer of employment from one of
them. Apprentices are subject to |
| drug testing and physical examination
prior to employment. |
| Career
Description:
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Construction Craft Laborers
take pride in the fact that they have a hand in every structure built in this country -
below ground as well as above. They are one of the first crafts on the job and the last
craft off the job. |
Career
Education:
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A Construction Craft Laborer
will usually complete apprenticeship within 30 months. During that time he/she will
complete 11-15 weeks of in-school training. Additional advancement, upgrade and
cross-training classes are available upon completion of apprenticeship. |
Career
Options:
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Some Construction Crafts
Laborers specialize in the highway or commercial building construction, site excavation
and grading, concrete or masonry work, sewer/water line installation or environmental
abatement. Most job superintendents on highway, concrete construction, and sewer/water
main projects have construction craft laborer backgrounds. |
For More Information about the
Construction Craft Laborer Apprenticeship Program
Write to: Construction Craft Laborer Apprenticeship Program
c/o LABORERS-AGC Training Center
#35 Opportunity Road
High Hill, MO 63350
Call: (636) 585-1500
Fax: (636) 585-2604
OR connect to our e-mail now
Apprentices who completed their working hours and classroom training in 2006
were formally graduated from the Apprenticeship Program at a banquet
held at The Columns Banquet & Conference Center in St. Charles, MO on April 19, 2007.
Click here to see the group photo
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