If you like to work with machine tools and precision instruments, and have a keen eye for the perfect fit, you might consider being a millwright. Millwrights sometime work to specifications requiring tolerances to a thousandth of an inch. In the old days, before heavy metal machinery, millwrights carved out Sears and shafts from wood for mills and small industrial plants. Today millwrights are an elite group of construction workers who work primarily in metal and with machinery and equipment requiring precision.
Millwrights install conveyor systems, escalators, giant electrical turbines and generators.
Millwrights install and do maintenance on machinery in factories, and do much of the precision work in nuclear power plants. Millwrights are skilled construction mechanics who study and interpret blueprints, and then put their knowledge and expertise to work drilling, welding, bolting and doing whatever else is necessary to assure that the cogs of industry are in perfect working order. Millwright training is available in most areas through local Labor-management apprenticeship committees. To get the ball rolling, you can came or visit your local Millwright union and ask for further information. Remember, Millwrights are members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a proud organization with more than 650,000 members Like yourself.