OPCMIA Local 518 Apprenticeship
Background Information
OPCMIA stands for Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association. Local 518 is located in Missouri and covers most of Missouri all of Kansas and part of Oklahoma. With more than 50 employers signatory to our contracts. That means 50 companies to choose from that all need dedicated union concrete finishers and plasterers. We also offer all the training needed to learn the skills for our craft in a 3 year apprenticeship program. So if you have 0 concrete experience, or maybe some experience, come apply at our program! We take applications the 1st and 3rd Monday every month from 8am-11am at The Builders Training Center *105 West 12th Avenue, North Kansas City, MO 64116. You can fill out a pre-application at train518kc.com
Please bring your drivers license and if you have certifications like OSHA 10 or 30, or First aid and CPR please bring those cards as well.
Why we want to hire veterans
Why hire veterans? Why wouldn't you? Veterans are a great fit for the trades, hard working, dedicated, team players that know the importantance of being there everyday and being on time. That's the exact type of people we greatly need! We can train you to finish concrete, to learn your new career, the rest comes from with-in yourself and Veterans have that drive we are searching for.
What we currently do for veterans at our company
We offer a lifelong Union career, with great pay and excellent benefits.
We will help you with the paperwork to take advantage of VA educational benefits.
As an apprenticeship we also volunteer to help Veterans with their concrete work.
As a Union we help with Fishing for Freedom, a day that veterans get to be taken out on the lake by many volunteers with boats for a wonderful day of fishing.
Additional Information
- Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association
