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Choose your personal path to success in the carpentry, piledriving, or millwright trade. Carpentry professionals work in six specialty fields, providing crucial expertise in building all types of structures. Millwrights install, maintain, and repair machinery in almost every industrial setting imaginable.
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CONTRACTORS: Partner With Our Workforce
Our carpenters, millwrights, and pile drivers can provide your company with a highly skilled, temporary workforce that produces quality work at a competitive cost. We offer the best training programs in the nation, and that training is free — for craftspeople and the contractors who employ them. We’ll even make sure workers receive training customized to the specifics of your jobs.
—Jimmie Jordan, executive director of training
latest news & Events
- Apprentice Spotlight: Matthew ClarkThird year apprentice Matthew Clark has an unusual background for carpenter. He earned a bachelor’s degree philosophy, with a minor in counterintelligence, followed by a two-year degree in brewing science. For a decade, he worked in the brewing industry, but a lack of promotion opportunities led him to a career change. “I’ve always loved carpentry… Read more: Apprentice Spotlight: Matthew Clark
- Apprentice Spotlight – Jonathan Ford
Meet Jonathan Ford, a fourth-year apprentice with Local 702 in Jacksonville, FL, who is getting ready to graduate in July of 2026. His journey into the trades began at a trade school, where carpentry was one of the three options he explored. Jonathan was quickly inspired by his instructor to pursue an apprenticeship program in carpentry, and he hasn’t looked… Read more: Apprentice Spotlight – Jonathan Ford - Apprentice Spotlight: Samuel Rodriguez
Unistrut isn’t a word most people know, but for Samuel Rodriguez, it’s a big part of his daily work. Samuel, a third-year apprentice, specializes in installing Unistrut support structures for medical equipment in labs, X-ray rooms, and operating rooms. At just 21 years old, he’s already traveled all around the Southeast for his work, starting… Read more: Apprentice Spotlight: Samuel Rodriguez
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