Carpentersemployers Apprenticeship

The health and retirement benefits you earn travel with you from job to job, so that you can provide for your family and build a secure future. And from day one of your apprenticeship you start earning-not owing. Grit NW is an interview based podcast where self-motivated people, just like you, come to learn from construction industry professionals about the issues that affect their lives and careers on a daily basis. The shows host is the President of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, Joe Cadwell.

We are carpenters. Each of us at NWCI brings the skills and expertise of an accomplished professional. Working with our hands, we see the results of our work in the buildings and structures all around us-and we love it! We love seeing others discover that same joy of building. We know that carpentry sets the foundation of our communities. We also know that carpentry is community. We make carpenters. NWCI turns out the best construction craftsmen in the field because we've honed the best apprenticeship program in the Pacific Northwest.

Carpentry construction is a very broad field covering many crafts and countless skills. Even journeyman carpenters must continue to learn and develop to keep pace with the changing demands of the job. Our journeymen courses keep you on the leading edge of your trade and build your leadership skills in the field. Courses focused on safety, technology, project management, methods and evolving industry codes ensure that you are the most effective and efficient journeymen you can be. Participants will learn how to take dimensions from a print and convert them to point coordinates and also how to calculate the distances and angles of layout points.

Our carpentry apprenticeship is a four-year program that gives you a solid education, both in the classroom and on the job. You learn the best techniques-from the best craftsmen in the field-building a foundation that will bring success throughout your career. Others may go into debt to pay for a college education. But if you are selected for our apprenticeship program, the cost to you is minimal-in fact, you'll make money, right from the start. Plain and simple, NWCI apprenticeships offer a direct path to a great career and a financially solid lifestyle.

Bob Susee is proud to be serving as our Executive Director. He has been in the trade for 40+ years and says the best thing about his position is helping build careers and improving lives. His advice to apprentices is to have a "can do" attitude in the apprenticeship training program and on the job, be the first to start work and the last to roll up; characteristics that will ensure you stay employed. He wants apprentices to know that he started as an apprentice in 1976 and that the knowledge the Carpenters Training Program and employers provided him helped him become a foreman as soon as he graduated.