Carpenter Program Description  

The carpenter apprenticeship is a four-year program that combines on-the-job experience with related classroom instruction. As you gain experience and proficiency in the trade, you will become more of an asset to your employer and earn progressive pay increases.

Carpenter apprentices will receive training in the following areas:

     Residential Framing

      First Aid & OSHA Training

     Roof Construction

      Basic Welding skills   

    Trim Carpentry        

      Blueprint Reading 

     Stair Construction 

      Scaffold Construction 

     Transit / Level use 

      Ceiling Systems 

     Concrete Forms  

      Door Hardware Installation 

     Metal Studs & Drywall 

  


Millwright Program Description

The Millwright Apprenticeship is a four-year program that includes on the job training as well as related training in the classroom. As you gain experience and proficiency in the trade, you will become more of an asset to your employer and earn progressive pay increases. Millwright apprentices in the U.P. and western/northern area of the lower peninsula attend school in a "block training" format, attending for one week at a time, four times per year. Millwright apprentices must complete a total of 640 hours of related training over four years.

Millwright apprentices will receive training in the following areas:

      Precision hand tools

      Fabrication

      Shaft alignment

      Blueprint reading

      Rigging

      Arc, Mig, & Tig welding

      Optical alignment

      First Aid & OSHA Training

      Laser Alignment

      Trade Mathematics

      Conveyors

      Layout

 

For additional millwright information 
contact one of the following local union offices: 

(See map below)

Western and Northern Michigan 

Millwright Local #1102 
3617 Gembrit Circle 
Kalamazoo, MI 49001 
1-800-434-0049 

Millwright Local #1102 
140 N. 64th Ave. 
Coopersville, MI 49404 
1-800-405-1213 

Millwright Local #1102 
6459 Pierson Rd.
Flushing, MI 48433
810-487-6455

Upper Peninsula

Southeastern Michigan

Carpenter/Millwright Local #1510 
1219 1st Ave. South 
Escanaba, MI 49829 
1-800-248-1134 

Millwright Institute of Technology 
27555 Mound Rd. 
Warren, MI 48092
810-573-4660