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TRAINING CENTER
The path to your new career starts here
UA Local 525 offers two tracks for apprenticeship training: Building Trades (which focuses on plumbing and pipefitting) and HVACR Service. Both are five-year programs that require rigorous technical and safety training on the jobsite, along with engaging classroom-related instruction. The result? The most qualified, highly skilled workforce in Southern Nevada.
The glittering casinos, luxury hotels and dynamic attractions of the Las Vegas Strip are prime locations for UA Local 525 members to showcase the diversity of our two programs. Our tradespeople make sure Las Vegas buildings have clean drinking water and sanitary waste drainage. They’re involved in the complex piping systems of the hospitality industry. And they’re pros at improving energy efficiency of and making sure HVAC systems function properly in our desert heat.
Joining the skilled trades offers an essential, risk-proof career with plenty of opportunities for advancement. Increasingly, skilled tradesmen and women are becoming inspectors, supervisors, researchers, engineers, business owners and more. At UA Local 525, you make your own luck.
Plumbers & Pipefitters
At Local 525, plumbing and pipefitting apprentices are part of our Building Trades Apprenticeship Program, receiving a minimum of 8,500 on-the-job hours and 1,230 hours of classroom-related instruction.
HVAC Service
We stay at the forefront of today’s cutting edge technologies so we’re always teaching what’s being used in the field. HVAC Service Apprenticeship Program apprentices receive a minimum of 8,500 on-the-job hours and 1,230 hours of classroom-related instruction.
Allegiant Stadium
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Opened in 2020, Allegiant Stadium is the home field of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders. The facility features 65,000 seats, a retractable natural turf field, a translucent roof and walls that open to spectacular views of the Strip. To complete the $1.97 billion project, nearly 1,100 local apprentices were utilized in the completion of this $1.97 billion project, giving them valuable on-the-job learning opportunities.
TRAINING CENTER
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At Local 525, we’re proud to be at the forefront of training excellence — and have been for more than a century. Our state-of-the-art training center, which was rebuilt and opened in 2020.
