Careers in the Trades
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Boilermakers
Boilermakers make and install boilers and other large containers that house gases or liquids such as oil.
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Bricklayers
Bricklayers construct walls, partitions, fireplaces, chimneys, and other structures from brick, block, and other masonry materials such as structural tile, concrete cinder, glass, gypsum, and terra cotta.
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Carpenters
Carpenters erect wood framework in buildings; build forms for concrete; and erect partitions, studs, joints, drywalls, and rafters.
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Cement Masons
Cement masons level, smooth, and shape surfaces of freshly poured concrete on projects ranging from patios and basements to dams, highways, and building foundations and walls.
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Drywall Finishers
Drywall finishers seal joints between plasterboard or other wallboards, mix sealing compound, press paper tape over joints to embed tape into compound and seal joints, or tape joints using mechanical applicators that spread compound and embed tape in one operation.
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Electricians
Electricians lay out, install, and test electrical service and electrical wire systems used to provide heat, light, power, air conditioning, and refrigeration in homes, office building, factories, hospitals, and schools.
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Floor Coverers
Carpet installers lay floor coverings in both residential and commercial sites.
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Glaziers
Glaziers are responsible for the sizing, cutting, fitting, and setting of all glass products into openings of all kinds.
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Heat & Frost Insulators
Heat & frost insulators apply insulation materials to pipes, tanks, boilers, ducts, refrigeration equipment, and other surfaces requiring thermal temperature control.
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Ironworkers
Structural ironworkers erect the steel framework for large industrial, commercial, or residential buildings, bridges, and metal tanks.
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Laborers
Laborers are diversely skilled workers who build and repair roads, highways, bridges, sewers, and tunnels; construct buildings; clean up hazardous waste sites; and much more.
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Millwrights
Millwrights work with metal materials, machinery, and equipment that requires precision.
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Operating Engineers
Operators operate and maintain a variety of powerful equipment ranging from bulldozers, backhoes, and earthmovers to very large power shovels and cranes.
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Painters
Painting includes the preparation of surfaces and the application of paint, varnish, enamel, lacquer, and similar materials to wood, metal, or masonry buildings.
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Pile Drivers
Pile drivers maneuver construction machinery to drive metal, concrete, or wood piling into the earth during the early stages of construction.
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Pipefitters
Pipefitters assemble, install, and maintain pipes to carry liquids, steam, compressed air, gases, and fluids needed for processing, manufacturing, heating, and cooling.
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Plumbers
Plumbers install, repair and alter pipe systems that carry gases, water, and other liquids required for sanitation, stormwater, industrial production, and other uses.
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Roofers
Roofers apply built-up composition roofing and many other materials such as tile, slate, composition shingles, metals, various types of plastic materials, and other surfaces.
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Sheet Metal Workers
Sheet metal workers work from sketches, blueprints, or verbal instructions necessary to make products, then install a wide variety of articles made from sheets of steel, aluminum, copper, and other materials.