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Salt Lake City, Utah
Full time
Apprentice Sign Fabricator
Kickstart Your Career in a Skilled Trade!
Are you a highly motivated high school graduate ready to learn a valuable, hands-on trade? Join our team and begin your career as an Apprentice Sign Fabricator! You will be trained under general supervision to effectively and efficiently fabricate high-quality sheet metal signs. This is an incredible opportunity to gain certified skills and work towards becoming a fully certified technician, with a clear path into the YESCO apprenticeship program.
What You Will Learn and Do (Essential Duties):
Bring Designs to Life: Review plans and diagrams to translate precise specifications into accurately cut materials for sign parts.
Master Fabrication Equipment: Learn to operate and program advanced metal cutting and welding equipment to cut, weld, bend, and shape various materials.
Weld and Construct: Operate welding equipment to join sign parts and structures together.
Maximize Efficiency: Plan, prepare, and use materials efficiently to keep waste to a minimum.
Quality & Finish: Perform essential finishing work, including sanding, polishing, and cleaning cut materials, and applying paint touch-ups and detailing to signs.
Assembly Preparation: Prepare sign structures by laying out materials for skinning/covering, and performing pre-painting and wiring preparation tasks, including cleaning and labeling parts.
Safety First: Consistently implement and maintain quality control and safety procedures during material handling, cutting, and welding.
Maintenance: Perform preventative maintenance and minor repairs to sheet metal department equipment.
Teamwork: Perform all duties required to ensure the department meets project expectations and deadlines.
Team Support (Marginal Duties):
Keep the shop area clean and free from debris to maintain a safe working environment.
Assist other sheet metal employees as needed.
Help monitor parts and materials inventory.
Move materials, cut parts, and finished projects around the facility.
Rack and pallet finished materials for shipping.
What We Look for In an Apprentice (Training & Qualifications):
Education: High school diploma or GED is required.
Career Focus: Acceptance or immediate enrollment in the YESCO or other authorized apprenticeship program is highly desirable.
Foundational Skills: Demonstrated basic experience in power tool operation, or related hands-on areas, is a plus.
Certification Commitment: Must be willing to work towards obtaining a 3G Welding certificate.
Technical Literacy: The ability to read, interpret, and apply information from specifications, diagrams, and procedure manuals.
Math Skills: The ability to apply geometric, algebraic and fraction mathematical calculations for accurate cutting and fitting. Be able to read a tape measure.
Communication: Ability to effectively communicate with team members and supervisors.
Physical Requirements:
The role is performed indoors in a generally loud work environment. Candidates must be able to regularly stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and maintain balance. You must be able to occasionally move objects in excess of 30 lbs. Specific vision abilities include clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and the ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.
We maintain a drug free workplace. We do test for marijuana. Young Electric Sign Company is an EEO/AA employer. We welcome all qualified jobseekers. Jobseekers will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion or other legally protected status.
Since 1920 the signs and people of YESCO have set the standard for quality, innovation and customer service in the sign-making industry. YESCO offers signs of all types and sizes - from simple wayfinding plaques to towering spectaculars that spring to life in dazzling spectrums of color, animation and video.
The name YESCO has become synonymous with custom signs. Having created many of the world's most complex signs, we have the expertise, equipment and processes to produce multi-dimensional signs, displays and architectural elements that will add visual appeal and functionality to interior and exterior venues. YESCO offers financing.
YESCO Outdoor Media is one of the largest and oldest outdoor advertising companies in the Rocky Mountain West, operating 2,100 large-format bulletin displays that includes 42 strategically located eye-catching digital units. YESCO
is unparalleled in delivering high-impact, memorable impresses to today's mobile consumers.
YESCO offers a service franchise opportunity. These franchises make YESCO’s pacesetting sign and lighting maintenance and repair services even more convenient to customers in numerous geographic areas. As of early 2018 the company has awarded 144 territories across the Midwest, East Coast and Canada. Franchise owners benefit from YESCO's highly respected brand, marketing, purchasing power, proprietary technology and software solutions.
YESCO Financial Solutions provides financing to businesses who want to preserve their capital for higher-return investments while financing important, revenue generating projects.
Internationally recognized signs throughout the United States stand today as testaments to YESCO’s long history of excellence. Today, the company continues its tradition of innovative excellence – always with a focus on best-of-class customer service.
