Apprenticeship and Internship Opportunities

The Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Explorers Post was established in 1999. The program is dedicated to training tomorrow's firefighters through the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department and the Boy Scouts of America. Trained by Firefighters themselves, our explorer post provides many hands-on training experiences ranging from auto-extrication, basic medical skills and more.

Explorer's daily activities include cooking/eating with crew, working out, assisting in station chores, responding to emergencies and much more. The Explorer Post and the LPFD provides an excellent start to somebody interested in a Firefighting career.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications are available at the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Station #4, 1600 Oak Vista Way, Pleasanton CA 94588. Return completed applications to LPFD #4 or to headquarters at 3560 Nevada Street, Pleasanton, CA 94566.

If you are interested or have any questions, please contact:

Firefighter Greg Scott (gscott@lpfire.org) or Firefighter-Paramedic Jordan Reid (jreid@lpfire.org)

WHO CAN APPLY

Anyone between the ages of 16-21, who is interested in the Fire Service or pursuing a career in the Fire Service, may apply.

TRAINING

Our post trains at the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Training Center at 3301 Busch Road every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month and every Thursday at one of the 10 Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Stations.

Training Highlights:

• Engine/Truck Familiarization

• Hose Pulls/Ladder Throws

• SCBA Donning and Doffing

• Search and Rescue

• Auto Extrication

• Rope Rescue

• Saws/Ventilation

• EMS

• Specialty Classes: Hazmat FRO, Confined Space Awareness, LARRO

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

We as the members of Livermore-Pleasanton Explorer Post take everything very seriously as a sign of pride and dedicaiton. We expect commitment and attendance from Explorers. Nearly every drill training day must be attended.

Our Apprenticeship Training Programs have been established for many years and are recognized and registered with the State of California and the Federal Department of Labor. We serve as the Northern California training affiliate for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America (UBC).

Our mission is to provide Apprenticeship training and Journey-level re-training to the following UBC crafts:

• Carpenters

• Acoustical Installers

• Drywall/Lathers

• Hardwood Floorlayers

• Insulators

• Millmen & Cabinet Makers

• Millwrights

• Modular Systems Installer

• Pile Drivers

• Scaffold Erectors

• Shinglers

As the technology of our industry continues to change, our goal is to improve the skills of our Members and the competitiveness of our Signatory Contractors by developing and implementing "state-of-the-art" training programs that are relevant and tailored to the real world. That's why we believe in working with our members, contractors and Union to form a coordinated, collaborative team. By working together we can develop programs and resources to strengthen partnerships, sharpen skills, and provide valuable on-the-job training.

AREAS SERVICED:

Northern 46 California Counties

​OPEN ENROLLMENT:

Applications may be submitted year-round and are purged every two years.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants MUST be 18 years of age or a minimum of 17 and have parent or guardian sign their agreements.

Cypress Mandela Training Center offers a FREE 16-week pre-apprenticeship program for Bay Area men and women ages 18 and older. This program is both hands-on and in the classroom. Students will be prepared for skilled trades jobs that are relevant to today’s construction industry. 

Significant elements of the curriculum include both classroom and hands-on instruction in:

• Environmental training

• Introduction to cement work

• Introduction to framing, form and foundation work

• Introduction to structural steel and ironwork

• Job safety

• Orientation to the construction industry and the apprentice structure

• Tool and material identification

• Site surveying

• Blueprint reading

• Electrical fundamentals

• Plumbing fundamentals

• Introduction to operating engineers

• Fundamentals of Solar

COMMITMENT:

16-WEEK SESSION

Monday through Friday

7:00am to 3:30pm

Rising Sun is a premier nonprofit organization working at the intersection of economic equity and climate resilience in the California Bay Area and San Joaquin County. With offices in Oakland and Stockton, our workforce development programs specialize in preparing youth, women, and individuals in reentry for high-road careers and green pathways that offer family-sustaining wages. Since our founding in 1994, Rising Sun has served more than 3,000 youth and adults while helping over 52,700 households reduce their carbon footprint.

For more than a century, the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices (Union of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders, & Service Techs) has been dedicated to excellence. To maintain these high standards of performance, the UA provides the best training available. At the UA Local 342 Training Center, Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union 342 apprentices reach the leading edge of technology through a demanding five-year Apprenticeship Program in one of the following specialty areas:

• HVAC & Refrigeration

• Plumbing

• Steamfitting

• Welding

Each specialty demands Local 342 apprentices learn a comprehensive body of technical knowledge about materials, procedures, and regulations.

In addition to attaining technical proficiency in their specialty, UA Local 342 members must also build a general knowledge in subjects such as math, science, and workplace safety. They acquire skills in a variety of areas; including brazing, welding, drafting, computer-aided design, hydronics and electronic and pneumatic controls.

Apprentices also master the tools and techniques of the Trade as they work under supervision at the job site, which means they earn a good living while they learn!

Boatworks 101 is a registered apprenticeship program in which we train the next generation of craftspeople in the marine service industry. Boatworks 101 is an earn-while-you-learn opportunity for young people interested in working in the maritime trades. From the very first day of training, apprentices earn $20 an hour.

Boatworks 101 creates that path toward success and security over a fifteen month program. During the first nine months, apprentices work at Spaulding Marine Center and learn shop safety and tool skills while also gaining familiarity with marine carpentry, structural work, propulsion, and yacht systems. Apprentices develop these skills while working on customers’ boats and other projects including small boat building. In the “classroom” we discuss craftsmanship, best practices, career opportunities in the marine trades, and much more.

Following nine months training at Spaulding, apprentices rotate for six months through one-month assignments at a variety of our employer partners throughout the Bay Area. The apprentices will have the opportunity to learn from electricians, diesel mechanics, riggers, carpenters, composite experts, and other specialists throughout the industry.

Sheet Metal Workers` Local 104 and Bay Area Training Fund is a joint Labor-Management Trust dedicated to providing the men and women of the unionized sheet metal industry the highest level of training skills and knowledge in this trade.

The sheet metal trade is unique because it is one of the few crafts that starts with raw material and then creates a component, installs, and maintains the product.

In a shop, workers determine the quantity and type of material they will need to correspond with blueprints and specifications. Using a combination of mathematics, layout tools, hammers, drills, hacksaws, plasma and laser beam cutting systems, computers, cutting, forming, seaming or welding machines, workers manipulate the material into the product desired. Pre-fabricated parts are transported to construction job sites for installation according to blueprints and careful coordination on the jobsite.

The maintenance sector includes start-up, preventive maintenance, repair, testing, balancing and sometimes certification of the installed systems. Items commonly fabricated and installed include HVAC systems, metal roofs, kitchen hoods, various flashings, gutters, decorative architectural features and many other items made of a variety of metals.

Workers constantly meet new challenges, using their hands, visualizing and analyzing how components can be made or installed, how mechanical systems work, and practice human relations in working with clients and coordinating with other workers. It is an interesting and evolving field with exciting growth potential.The apprenticeship is an earn-while-you-learn program involving paid full-time work and related classes.

Roofing may be hard work, but it’s also very rewarding, particularly for those individuals who are willing to learn and grow as a professional craftsperson. Many apprentice roofers have moved through apprenticeship, become highly compensated foremen of their own crews with good companies committed to training and developing the skills of their roofing mechanics.

Others have grown into successful roofing contractors or consultants. Some have even come back to the classroom to serve as apprenticeship trainers, as a way of giving back to the industry and being compensated at the same time.

The fact is roofing has become increasingly technical and demanding. Skilled workers are sought after and command competitive wages and job security. The IRCC’s apprenticeship program for roofers helps you develop those skills, combining classroom training, labs and hands-on learning exercises, supported with an array of workbook studies and audio-visual training aids.

While your learning, you’ll be employed with some of the industries best roofing contractors — contractors who are committed to training and quality of workmanship. The IRCC Apprenticeship program is approved by both the California Department Of Industrial Relations, Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) and the Federal Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship Training.

The IRCC apprenticeship training program is 100% employer paid; which means that you will be learning a good trade and earning a good wage at the same time you are moving up the ladder and further toward your goal of becoming a journey-level roofer and beyond

Persons interested in entering the applicant pool must meet the requirements specified below:

• Applicants shall be at least 18-years of age at the time of indenture.

• Applicant’s prior work experience and training will be evaluated by the committee or employer at the time of indenture if proper verification of his/her employment in the trade is available,and appropriate credit may be given at the discretion of the employer with the consent of the UATC when appropriate.

Our apprenticeship program is operated under the direction of a joint committee. Union representatives, representatives from local contractors and consultants from the Division of Apprenticeship Standards and the Hayward Unified School District make up our committee.

• Applicants must be physically able to perform the work of the trade.

• Apprentices are required to join the union in order to participate in our program.

Apprenticeship combines classroom instruction with on the job training. A portion of the classroom instruction is hands on training. An apprentice who enters our program with no prior experience will earn 40% of the current journeyman rate.  They can expect to progress through our program with pay increases every six to seven months.

The length of each program varies:

• Terrazzo Finishers – 2 years and six months

• Marble Finishers – 2 years and six months

• Marble Masons and Terrazzo Mechanics – 3 years.

• Pointer, Cleaner, Caulkers – 3 years and six months

• Bricklayers – 3 years and six months.

No other organization serves the training needs of the Sprinkler Fitting industry like the United Association. For over a century, the UA has been training the most highly-qualified workers in the United States and Canada.

Over the past several decades, the United Association's training programs have produced a stable, skilled workforce responsible for building and maintaining sprinkler systems in the various industrial, commercial and residential facilities that make up the North American landscape.

No one can match the commitment or investment. The UA spends over $100 million annually on training programs efforts involving approximately 100,000 journeymen and apprentices in over 400 local training facilities at any given time.

If the United Association wanted to select the area which best reflects this commitment to the training and excellence produced, it could well look to Northern California. Sprinkler Fitters Local 483 has a brand new state of the art training facility which we encourage you to come and visit. You can call to set up a tour or just stop by, we are here most days during business hours.

In addition to our five-year apprenticeship programs, Sprinkler Fitters Local 483 offers continuing education opportunities that includes journeymen training and certification, as well as an associate’s degree program.

We understand the importance of having trained quality crafts people installing, inspecting, testing, and maintaining your fire protection systems and no one in Northern California trains more or better quality fire sprinkler fitters than U.A. Local 483.

REQUIREMENTS

• At time of application, applicants must bring proof of completion of high school, (diploma or transcript). A certificate of proficiency or G.E.D. will be accepted equivalent to high school diploma. 

• Applicants must be at least 18 years old, and must show proof of age at time of application. Drivers license, picture I.D. Passport, etc. will be accepted. A valid Drivers License is required at time of indenture and dispatch to employer.

• Applicants must be physically fit to do the work of the trade, and will be required to work anywhere within the nine (9) Bay Area Counties.

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States

The Promise of the Alameda County Apprenticeship for the Electrical Trades is to provide the IBEW and NECA with the best trained, highest skilled, most productive and professional workforce in the electrical construction industry.

Our mission is accomplished by empowering our students with the skills, knowledge and abilities necessary for lifelong success, while always honoring the integrity, uniqueness and dignity of the individual.

The standard term of the Stationary Engineers Apprenticeship program is four years. 

During this four-year period the apprentice, as any other employee, is expected to perform all assigned duties as a full-time employee and, in addition, continue his/her studies outside of work at a training facility provided by the Local 39 Training Department, or at a local community college. During this four-year period the apprentice will become increasingly proficient in all facets of stationary engineer work including knowledge of boilers, air conditioning and refrigeration, automatic controls, general maintenance, and plant management.

It is the goal of Local 39 and the program to produce highly qualified and well trained workers who have solid knowledge as well as specific, technical job skills.

YouthBuild San Joaquin (YBSJ) is a job training and pre-apprenticeship program for young people between the ages of 18-24 in which they receive close supervision and training in construction technology from certified construction instructors. Students enrolled in construction technology courses learn basic skills necessary for succeeding in an apprenticeship program and gain trade experience needed to secure high-paying, in-demand construction jobs. All projects completed by YBSJ students are dedicated to improving the community and/or developing housing for low-income residents. Job placement and job assistance available upon completion of program