Industrial Trades Career Fair-Lafayette, LA

The Industrial Trades Career Fair was held to match skilled job seekers with employers in South Louisiana from the manufacturing, construction, transportation, and distribution/warehousing industries.

Event held: Wednesday, August 19, 9am to 12 noon

Where: Heymann Convention Center, 1373 South College, Lafayette, LA

Acadiana Bottling Company – merchandisers, CDL drivers, loading / warehouse positions

Blueline Manufacturing – machinists and general labor

Bottom Line Equipment – diesel technician, class A CDL driver

CleanBlast – sandblaster, commercial spray painter, UHP blaster, blaster/  helper, UHP pump operator

CVD Ceramics, Inc – fabrication technician (machinist), process operator

Doug Ashy Building Materials- ware house staff, stagers, CDL drivers

Empire Wireline LLC – operators

Express Employment – plumbers, CDL drivers, electricians, welders/ fitters, machinists, mechanics

First Solar – manufacturing technicians, production operators, production technicians

Five S Group – survey technician I, survey technician III, survey CAD technician, survey design modeler

Frederick’s Manufacturing– welders, machinists

GIS (Grand Isle Shipyard) – A operator, offshore construction superintendent, offshore electrician, offshore mechanic, production operator B, rigger, rigger foreman, rope access blaster painter, rope access fitter, rope access welder, rope access rigger, rope access scaffold builder, scheduler, senior capital project estimator, structural fitter, survey party chief, survey project manager, survey technician,  valve technician, wind technician, and more.

Loadmaster Industries – welders, fitters, rope access, estimator

Lofton Staffing – carpenter, machinists, inspectors, service technicians, mechanics, installers, welders, welder helpers

McIlhenny Company – various manufacturing positions including: machine operator, material handler, mash unit operator, and more

Pneumatic and Hydraulic Company – shipping and receiving, production assemblers, welders

Rigid Constructors- laborers, operators, deckhands

SONOCO- offshore cooks, offshore galleyhands

Southern Organization – welder/ fabricators, steel erectors, carpenters, electrician, plumber, drivers, precast concrete workers

Sterling Automotive – entry level to certified automotive technicians

Stuller – variety of manufacturing technician and operator positions and logistics operations positions

Sunland Construction – welders, electricians, diesel mechanics, heavy equipment operators, dredge technicians, skilled laborers

System Services – laborers, welders, pipeline technicians

Taylors International Services –riggers, welders, utility hands, able bodied seaman, ordinary seaman

Turner Industries -a variety of construction trades including entry-level and skilled craft

US Army – active duty/ army reserves in a variety of career and skilled trade fields