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Apprenticeship (ITF)

If you’re looking for a career in a skilled trade with good wages and benefits and lifelong work in a fulfilling profession, you can earn as you learn to be a plasterer or cement mason through the OPCMIA International Training Fund’s Apprenticeship Program (ITF).

OPCMIA ITF

Job Corp Program (NPIJATF)

If you’re still in high school or a recent graduate with no experience in the building trades, the OPCMIA’s partnership with the federal government’s Job Corps program, the National Plastering Industry’s Joint Apprenticeship Trust Fund (NPIJATF), enables you to join a pre-apprenticeship program that will give you a leg up in entering our craft.

NPIJATF

1224 East Diehl Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50315
Phone (515) 266 - 1668 | Fax (515) 266 - 7577
Office Hours: 6:30 - 9:00 AM | 2:30 - 3:30 PM

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1224 East Diehl Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50315
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