Employment Opportunity Canada

Subject: UBC Industrial Scaffolding Pilot Class to Prepare Members to Work in Alberta, Canada

To: All Training Centers , Training Directors & Training Coordinators

The Memo below (also available to download here) was mailed to you in Mid-December. Please contact Ray Vogle at 412-262-1830 ext. 3414 or Rick Okraszewski at 412-262-1830 ext. 3413 if you have any questions.

By early February 2010, 200 or more industrial scaffold builders from the United States will be needed in Alberta , Canada . Starting January 11, 2010, the Carpenters International Training Fund is holding six (6) UBC Industrial Scaffolding Pilot classes to prepare members for industrial scaffold work in Alberta , Canada . The pilot classes will be held at the UBC International Training Center in Las Vegas , Nevada . All members in this class must be journeyman scaffold builders with at least five (5) years of extensive experience building scaffolds in industrial facilities.

Class dates are posted on the CITF Registration Website under Special Training Sessions. Here is the link directly to class registration for the Scaffolding Qualification - Industrial (3-Day Pilot Class):

http://reservation.carpenters.org/seminar.asp?id=545

The class will be mostly hands-on and will focus on using Aluminum Tube & Wedge Clamp scaffolding and All-Around Ring System scaffolding. There will be a skill assessment on the last day of the class that must be passed in order to be placed on the list for work in Alberta .

Please NOTE: This special class is for journeymen with extensive industrial scaffolding experience, who are willing to work in Alberta , Canada . Besides completing the Industrial Scaffolding Qualification Pilot class, members must also:

1) Have a valid passport

2) Have a Notarized FBI background check (cannot have criminal record including DUI or outstanding child support payments)

3) Contact Derrick Schulte, Dispatcher from local 1325 to obtain a Pre-Employment Application 780-471-3200 ext. 2158.

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