Overview
Millwrights are elite construction professionals who have exceptional skills to work primarily with machinery and equipment requiring precision. They are craftsman who make possible the mass production at automobile plants, the airplane assembly and manufacturing industry, paper and food production line machinery, and nuclear power plant machinery. Millwrights work to specifications requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch.
UBC millwrights are responsible for assembling, installing, aligning, fabricating, erecting and adjusting industrial machinery such as conveyor systems, cyclotrons, giant electric generators or turbines, escalators and monorails. They also maintain, diagnose, and repair equipment such as compressors, pumps, conveyors, gas and steam turbines, monorails, and extruders.
If you like to work with machine tools and precision instruments, and have a keen eye for the perfect fit, you might consider becoming a millwright carpenter.
Millwrights are familiar with arithmetic and geometry because their work demands the application of such principles. Millwrights work from blue prints to install the industrial machinery and put their knowledge and expertise to work drilling, welding and bolting the components.
To prepare for a future as a Millwright, classes in math, drafting and mechanical drawing or metal and industrial shop would be advantageous. Courses in construction applications or construction technology are also helpful.
As a Union Millwright apprentice, you can earn as you learn and receive the specialized training necessary to become a highly skilled construction mechanic.
For an application and more information, please contact Local #1693 at (630) 325-6036.
Minimum Qualifications
At time of filing an application:
•Be 17 years of age or older
•High School Diploma or a G.E.D. Certificate or officially sealed High School Transcripts (minimum 8 credits)
•Have a valid Driver’s License or State ID
•Original Social Security Card or receipt showing duplicate card has been applied for
•Submit a $25.00 non-refundable application processing fee – Cashier’s Check or Money Order only.
During the posted application period, ALL required documents and fees must be brought to our main campus in Elk Grove Village – 1256 Estes Avenues – between 9:30am – 3:30pm – Monday thru Friday.
Veterans
Upon completing the application, you will required to:
•Be physically fit to work as a carpenter with no restrictions
Registration Process
When the Apprenticeship Program opens for registrations, the applicants must come to the Apprenticeship Program Office located at 1256 Estes Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 to fill out an application and begin the registration process.
The office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. At that time, applicants must meet the minimum qualifications and present the prescribed documents.
Each applicant who meets all of the criteria shall be eligible to take the Aptitude and Qualifying Tests required for entry in the program. Tests are held at various times, measuring reading comprehension, mathematic computation, reasoning power and natural talent for carpentry. Applicants are notified by mail of testing dates and times.
Following the Aptitude Tests, a mandatory Orientation Session is held for all applicants.