Floor Coverers
Floor coverers install a wide variety of flooring materials, including carpet, wood, laminates, and sport surfaces. Floor covering professionals are experts at estimating materials, understanding pattern layout, and safely using many tools, adhesives, and fastening systems.
Compensation Information
Work Conditions
Both indoor and outdoor, nearly every facility and building type, varying weather, physically demanding, new and existing construction, working from heights
Skills Needed
Math, spatial and mechanical ability, hand/eye coordination, physical stamina, fast-paced thinking and reacting, problem solving, comfortable with heights, blueprint reading, detail-oriented
Application Requirements
Education and Training
How to Apply
The applicant must contact and apply with listed signatory union contractors until the applicant finds a contractor willing to take them on as a carpenter’s apprentice. Once a contractor is secured, the applicant must have the contractor complete the Union Sponsor Letter located within the application packet. The signed Sponsor Letter, passing ACT/Accuplacer scores, required paperwork, and all necessary personal documents must be submitted to the training facility in order to begin the apprenticeship program.