Tag: Construction

Want to break into the industry of one of the highest paid trades in Alaska?

In a recent Workforce Wednesday, Daybreak learned about careers in plumbing and steamfitting, from Aaron Plikat with Local 367 United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters and Cari-Ann Carty with Alaska Process Industry Career Consortium (APICC).

Jobs in the industry can range from cutting and preparing steel pipe, welding joints, keeping the Sealife Center’s water flowing and helping power Shemya and Dutch Harbor. According to APICC, many Alaskans in this field will soon be retiring, opening doors to a career that pays anywhere from $24 an hour as a paid apprentice, to $60 an hour for a foreman.

“Absolutely awesome job, incredibly rewarding,” said Carty. “If you enjoy working with your hands and having, as I like to call it, visual gratification of a job every day, you can stand back at the end of the day, look at what you accomplished and know it’s going to be there for the next 50, 60, hopefully 100 years and really feel good about it.”

United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters Apprentice Program Requirements

To learn more about the apprenticeship program, visit the Local 367 website.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Plumbing and Steamfitting | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11

UAA construction management students may have entered this year’s Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Competition feeling as if they faced overwhelming odds, but they soon proved they were up to the challenge when they seized a second and third place win.

“Our success came from our ability to work together as a team,” said UAA student Nathan Yaskell, captain of the commercial project team. “We all supported each other and helped one another when we needed it. We focused on practicing and preparing for the competition months in advance, which is what made these wins so rewarding.”

Read the full article here.

Source: UAA construction management teams secure second and third place wins at national competition – Green & Gold News

From helping create bridges and buildings to highways and homes, it’s one of the construction industry’s most demanding careers: iron workers.

In Anchorage, you can see their most recent work in the University of Alaska Anchorage Engineering Center’s arched bridge and the Alaska Airlines Center. Apprenticeships are the best way to get started, plus apprentices get paid to learn. The apprenticeships pay from $21 to $32 an hour, not including benefits like annuity, retirement and healthcare, which could mean pay upward of $65 an hour.

Anthony Ladd, a business agent and training coordinator with Iron Workers Local No. 751, joined Daybreak to talk about the industry. He strives to do his job not just right, but safely as well, he said.

“It’s very fast paced, it’s very exciting, it’s very dangerous and it never ends. It’s almost too good to be true once you’re out there,” Ladd said.

Iron Workers Local No. 751 is accepting applications for Alaska residents only. The deadline is March 31.

For more information, click here.

Source: Workforce Wednesday: Iron work careers | KTVA Anchorage CBS 11