Southwest Piping Institute
UA Local 412
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Southwest Piping Institute & UA Local 412 offer five-year apprenticeships for Plumbers, Pipefitters, Welders, and HVAC/R Service Technicians. Our apprenticeship program is those interested in building with your hands. In our program, you do not acquire college debt while learning, but instead, earn a paycheck with steady pay raises throughout the five-year apprenticeship. You learn on the job with one of our many signatory contractors. If you have a high school diploma or equivalency, good with your hands and fascinated by the construction industry and the trades, apply for our five-year apprenticeship program.
Instead of owing thousands in student loans when you graduate from college, you can earn while you learn – with no student debt! Apprenticeship is occupational training that combines on-the-job experience with classroom instruction. Related training classes are held in the evenings and occasionally on Saturdays. Apprentices receive pay increases as they learn to perform more complex tasks. When they become a journeyman, they increase their chances of finding a well-paying job in the industry and may become supervisors or go into business for themselves.
Once accepted into the apprenticeship program, each new apprentice is paired with a journeyman. The apprentice trains with the journeyman during the day, working for one of our contractors. Pay increases as program requirements are met.
The benefits of membership in Local 412 continue throughout your lifetime:
The recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices during their apprenticeship shall be without discrimination because of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or as otherwise specified by law. The sponsor shall take positive action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will operate the apprenticeship program as required by the rules of the New Mexico State Registered Apprenticeship Program, Texas Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Program and Title 29, Part 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
We encourage women, minorities and veterans to apply.
Southwest Piping Institute is an institution of higher learning that trains highly qualified, skilled, and marketable Plumbers, Pipefitters, Welders and HVAC/R Technicians for the industries throughout New Mexico and El Paso while fostering personal growth, leadership, and opportunity to a culturally diverse community. We are dedicated to developing professionals that are skilled, responsible, and responsive to the needs of the UA Local 412 and the Mechanical Contractors Association of New Mexico.
UA Local 412 was founded in 1910, two years before New Mexico was admitted as a state. As the skills needed to do mechanical work increased, so did the need to establish a training center to meet those needs. The New Mexico Pipe Trades Joint Apprenticeship Trust Fund was established and the the