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05-13-2006, 03:31 PM
Monday in Pueblo there will be a career fair by the Building Trades.
Industrial construction is picking up throughout the country and is expected to stay strong for at least the next 10 years (probably a lot longer). Some of these jobs have great wages and benefits, (Boilermakers, Pipe Fitters, Electricians and others). Wage packages, for instance for the BMs and PFs range around $40 an hour (in the Rocky Mtn area and much more in the NE area).
This is union construction work and you will work to earn your money but it's honest work. Most of the higher paying trades require completing an apprenticeship (on the job training) before becoming a journeyman. There are specialized fields in some of the different trades that also can prove to provide a rewarding and fulfilling career.
Travel is required in some trades (some it isn't) and being away from home can be taxing on family life at times.
If anyone thinks they may be interested in finding out more about the 3 to 4 year job starting in Pueblo later this year, the career fair will have representatives from all the different trades there too answer questions Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Pueblo Convention Center.
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Building trades ready another career fair
By KAREN VIGIL
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Come Monday, people who want a construction trades career will get another chance to explore the many new jobs coming to Pueblo.
The Colorado Building and Construction Trade Council will host its second career fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Pueblo Convention Center. The first fair in October drew an estimated 1,250 job seekers; about 300 of the participants lined up before the doors opened.
The jobs expo comes as construction approaches on the Xcel Energy power plant expansion and, farther out, construction and operation gets under way for the Pueblo Chemical Depot chemical weapons destruction plant.
The two projects will rely heavily on union labor during their construction. The various trade unions screen, hire and help train apprentices (newcomers) and journeyman (experienced workers) and make job assignments.
Monday's fair also will provide information on union construction jobs unrelated to Xcel and the Chemical Depot.
Co-sponsors for the trades fair include Bechtel, Xcel Energy, Alstom construction, Shaw Stone & Webster Construction and Babcock & Wilcox Construction and Bechtel. All but Bechtel are working on Xcel Energy's $1.4 million Comanche Station power plant south of Pueblo.
Bechtel is a new addition to the career fair series. The company oversees the $1.7 billion demilitarization of Pueblo Chemical Depot.
Bechtel currently maintains a small management staff in Pueblo but employment is expected to grow starting next year as the construction moves past the planning phase.
The company may need upward of 200 construction workers starting by mid-2007.
At its peak - from 2010 to 2015, under the current timetable - the plant expects to employ upward of 600 to 800 operations and maintenance workers along with 400 professional workers.
Ed Snatchko, Bechtel construction manager, said Bechtel is taking part in the career fair to help educate the public about the coming construction.
"We're going to be there to represent Bechtel and so everybody can understand what we're going to be building there. We want everybody to understand their future employment options," he said.
Bechtel supports the building trades' effort to look for "young, educated, talented individuals" to move into the construction industry, Snatchko said.
"(They're needed) to support our construction effort there," he said.
Tradesmen from laborers to carpenters and welders are needed, he said. If work goes as planned, a couple of hundred tradesmen will be working on the project by mid-2007, he said. Work on Xcel Energy's plant expansion also remains a hot job prospect .
Pueblo native Neal Hall, business manager of the Denver-based trades council, said the Xcel project will allow young people to start out in jobs as apprentices and finish as journeymen.
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Industrial construction is picking up throughout the country and is expected to stay strong for at least the next 10 years (probably a lot longer). Some of these jobs have great wages and benefits, (Boilermakers, Pipe Fitters, Electricians and others). Wage packages, for instance for the BMs and PFs range around $40 an hour (in the Rocky Mtn area and much more in the NE area).
This is union construction work and you will work to earn your money but it's honest work. Most of the higher paying trades require completing an apprenticeship (on the job training) before becoming a journeyman. There are specialized fields in some of the different trades that also can prove to provide a rewarding and fulfilling career.
Travel is required in some trades (some it isn't) and being away from home can be taxing on family life at times.
If anyone thinks they may be interested in finding out more about the 3 to 4 year job starting in Pueblo later this year, the career fair will have representatives from all the different trades there too answer questions Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Pueblo Convention Center.
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Building trades ready another career fair
By KAREN VIGIL
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Come Monday, people who want a construction trades career will get another chance to explore the many new jobs coming to Pueblo.
The Colorado Building and Construction Trade Council will host its second career fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Pueblo Convention Center. The first fair in October drew an estimated 1,250 job seekers; about 300 of the participants lined up before the doors opened.
The jobs expo comes as construction approaches on the Xcel Energy power plant expansion and, farther out, construction and operation gets under way for the Pueblo Chemical Depot chemical weapons destruction plant.
The two projects will rely heavily on union labor during their construction. The various trade unions screen, hire and help train apprentices (newcomers) and journeyman (experienced workers) and make job assignments.
Monday's fair also will provide information on union construction jobs unrelated to Xcel and the Chemical Depot.
Co-sponsors for the trades fair include Bechtel, Xcel Energy, Alstom construction, Shaw Stone & Webster Construction and Babcock & Wilcox Construction and Bechtel. All but Bechtel are working on Xcel Energy's $1.4 million Comanche Station power plant south of Pueblo.
Bechtel is a new addition to the career fair series. The company oversees the $1.7 billion demilitarization of Pueblo Chemical Depot.
Bechtel currently maintains a small management staff in Pueblo but employment is expected to grow starting next year as the construction moves past the planning phase.
The company may need upward of 200 construction workers starting by mid-2007.
At its peak - from 2010 to 2015, under the current timetable - the plant expects to employ upward of 600 to 800 operations and maintenance workers along with 400 professional workers.
Ed Snatchko, Bechtel construction manager, said Bechtel is taking part in the career fair to help educate the public about the coming construction.
"We're going to be there to represent Bechtel and so everybody can understand what we're going to be building there. We want everybody to understand their future employment options," he said.
Bechtel supports the building trades' effort to look for "young, educated, talented individuals" to move into the construction industry, Snatchko said.
"(They're needed) to support our construction effort there," he said.
Tradesmen from laborers to carpenters and welders are needed, he said. If work goes as planned, a couple of hundred tradesmen will be working on the project by mid-2007, he said. Work on Xcel Energy's plant expansion also remains a hot job prospect .
Pueblo native Neal Hall, business manager of the Denver-based trades council, said the Xcel project will allow young people to start out in jobs as apprentices and finish as journeymen.
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http://tinyurl.com/efx5o