Welcome to Sheet Metal Workers Local 263 — skilled, strong, and union proud.
Welcome to Sheet Metal Workers Local 263 — skilled, strong, and union proud.
Welcome to Sheet Metal Workers Local 263 — skilled, strong, and union proud.
Welcome to Sheet Metal Workers Local 263 — skilled, strong, and union proud.
Earn While You Learn
Sheet Metal Workers participate in a five-year (10,000 hours) apprenticeship program. In addition to the training received on the job, apprentices attend supplemental classroom training in subjects related to the trade. A minimum of 196 hours of such training is required during each year of apprenticeship.
Training received through the apprenticeship includes ventilation, air conditioners and controls, general sheet metal work. Hotel, restaurant kitchen equipment, architectural sheet metal work, industrial sheet metal work, warm-air furnace and heating equipment, electric sign construction, operation of hand tools and power machinery. Handling of special materials, specialty installation and specialty work. Computer & C.A.D., welding, drafting and textbooks are included in training.
Local 263 also has a residential three year training program consisting of on-the-job training and a minimum of 200 hours of supplemental classroom training.
All apprentices and journeypersons are licensed to install when required.
Cedar Rapids / Iowa City JATC
Apprentices work for the signatory contractors during the day and attend classes at the school built for apprenticeship training, 200 hours a year broken into five 40-hour blocks. The Apprentice program is governed by the regulations of the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.
The Joint Apprenticeship Training Program serving Local 263 has been involved in the education of the local’s journeymen since 1950.
The committee governing the program is comprised of members from the Union and the signatory contractors.
Requirements for apprenticeship applicants
A Sheet Metal Worker should have above average mechanical and mathematical ability. They also need hand-eye coordination, spatial and form perception, good eyesight and manual dexterity. An applicant to the apprenticeship program should like and have the ability for shop courses, mechanical drawing, and basic algebra. Assets in sheet metal work include patience, dependability, accuracy and an ability to get along well with others.
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Matt Mutert
Training Coordinator
Nick Green
Lead Instructor
