Erectors & Riggers
Association
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ONGOING TRAINING CREATES
CULTURE OF LEARNING

Innovation and responsiveness require managers and craft workers who know how to learn. willingness to learn for a lifetime is critical to the productivity and safety of erection and rigging industry members. Ironworker apprentices complete 1,600 hours of state-of-the-art technical training in the classroom and 5,000 hours of hands-on field instruction to learn superior mechanical skills. Journeyman Ironworkers enroll in continuing education programs to master ever-evolving technologies and techniques that meet the needs of construction buyers. More than 50 percent of the industry's managers trained and worked as Ironworkers, combining practical insights with management know-how.


Ironworkers do curtainwall and glass systems with such new materials as composite panels.
Ironworkers craft standing seam metal roofs.