Better Choice Bigger Future.

Career Benefits

 “We’re working in a high-tech environment using software like AutoCAD, robotics and augmented reality. We also receive hands-on training from skilled journeymen.”

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Big Benefits.

Not only do you get paid while you learn, you get industry-leading benefits including healthcare, vision, dental, and life insurance. Not to mention the pensions, 401k, and paid time off, and the ability to transfer to a Sheet Metal Workers Apprenticeship anywhere in the US if you decide to move out-of-state.

  • 100% Employer Covered Healthcare with Vision & Dental
  • 100% Employer Covered Life Insurance
  • 100% Employer Covered Local Pension100% Employer Covered National Pension
  • 100% Employer Covered 401K with the option to add your own contribution
  • Sister Apprenticeship Programs across the entire US

High-Tech.

Throughout your apprenticeship, we’ll teach you how to use the AutoDesk suite, including AutoCAD; how to use 3D scanners like the Trimble; and how to program and operate plasma cutters, laser cutters and other high-tech tools and equipment for constructing state-of-the-art, high efficiency buildings.

Rewarding.

You’ll be able to see people, families, and communities enjoying the buildings that you helped build with your own hands. SMART Local 9 Sheet Metal Workers collectively bargain for wages and benefits, but they also have regular family activities, build volunteer projects that help strengthen the community, and can rely on each other in and out of work.

In Demand.

Colorado alone needs over 9,000 trained and experienced journeyworkers in the sheet metal industry by 2024. That means job security, advancement opportunity and a steady career with steady work for years to come.

 

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