PLUMBING, PIPEFITTING, WELDING, REFRIGERATION

Pipe Trades Joint Apprentice and Journeyman Training Committee, for Southern Nevada sponsored by the United Association of Journeymen Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada Local Union # 525, and the Mechanical Contractors Association, offers a limited number of apprenticeships every year.

An apprenticeship consists of five years, 246 hours a year, of extensive classroom and shop training and a minimum of 8,500 hours of on the job training. During these five years of training the apprentice receives instruction in:

Job Safety Use and Care of Tools Mathematics Science Rigging Water Supply Drainage Plumbing Fixtures Gas Installations

Drawing and Blueprint Reading Soldering and Brazing Welding and Oxy-Acetylene Cutting Pipe Welding Layout Refrigeration Automatic Controls Heating Venting Air Conditioning Uniform Plumbing Code Medical Gas Installations

Instructors for this program are experienced and highly trained journeymen who receive comprehensive instructor training every year at the United Association Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Apprentices indentured under this program will work under the supervision of an experienced journeyman at all times. The apprentice will be required to do all types of physical labor which will include heavy lifting, and will be required to work under all types of conditions that will include severe hot and cold temperatures, heights, and confined spaces.

Apprentices will measure, cut, plumb, level, prepare, fit up and install piping, hangers, fixtures, all types of equipment, and weld, solder, braze all types of pipe, fittings, valves, and appurtenances.

Wages for an apprentice begins at 45% per hour and also includes the following benefits:

Medical Insurance
Local Pension
National Pension
Training Fund

Pay increases of 5% of Journeyman's rate occur every six months until the Journeyman's rate is reached.

The recruitment, selection, employment, and training of apprentices during their apprenticeship shall be without discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin or sex. The sponsor will take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and operate apprenticeship program as required under Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 30, and State of Nevada Apprenticeship Council's State Plan for Equal Opportunity in Apprenticeship

Pipe Trades Joint Apprentice and Journeyman Training Committee Program is also accredited with the Community College of Southern Nevada, earning it's apprentices 4 credit hours per semester towards an Associate of Applied Science, Pipe Trades Degree.