Career Expo
The Building Futures Career Expo Community Trades Session invites the public to explore rewarding career opportunities in union construction and the skilled trades.
When: Tuesday, November 18th, 2:30 – 4 p.m.
Where: QCCA Expo Center, 2621 4th Ave., Rock Island, IL.
This free, open-to-the-public event offers a hands-on chance to experience the careers that build our community.
Participants can explore union apprenticeship opportunities in carpentry, cement masonry, heating and frost insulation, ironwork, laborer work, painting, operative engineering, plumbing and pipefitting, sheet metal and HVAC work, and roofing.
Attendees also will have the chance to connect with local industry leaders such as Bush Construction, Crawford Company, Estes Construction, General Constructors, Inc., the Phoenix Corporation of the Quad Cities, Russell, the Tri City Group, Valley Construction and countless other local contractors.
The Building Futures Career Expo also includes sessions from 9:30a.m. through 2 p.m. for junior high school and high school students.
It is produced and coordinated by Build The QC, and generously supported by the following sponsors and partners:
Master Sponsors:
Phoenix Corporation of the Quad Cities
Estes Construction
Russell
Tri-City Group
Project Manager Sponsors:
General Constructors, Inc.
Valley Construction/Valley Commercial Construction
Vintage Radio WQUD 107.7
Superintendent Sponsors:
Anderson Commercial Concrete
Brennan Industries
Centennial Contractors, Inc.
Goetz Concrete Construction Corp.
Helm Group
The Henley Group
Laborers Local Union 309
McCarthy Improvement/Bush Construction
Miller Materials
Miller Trucking & Excavating
Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 91
Foreman Sponsors:
Ahern Fire Protection
Builders Sales and Service
Crawford Company
Otto Baum Company, Inc.
Prime Construction
Union Partner Sponsors:
American Line Builders Apprenticeship & Training (ALBAT)
Gagnon Inc.
Local 18 Cement Masons and Plasterers
Local 81 Heat and Frost Insulators
Roofing Technology, Inc. / Roofers Local Union 32
Industry Partners:
Black Hawk College Highway Construction Training Program
Bricklayers Local 8 Apprenticeship & Training
IUPAT District Council 81 JATC
Illinois Laborers and Contractors JATC
Local 25 Plumbers and Pipefitters JATC
Mid-America Carpenters Apprentice Training QC Campus
Operating Engineers Local 150
Quad City Builders LU 111 JATC
Quad City Electrical Training Program
Rock Island Police Department