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setting up a new robotics system in a factory.
Multi-Craft Contractors offers a wide range of careers, allowing employees to attain job satisfaction and earn a good living. Multi-Craft is one of Springdale’ s largest and most successful companies. With eight different areas of specialized construction and industrial services, you can find the path that fits your skills and interests.
“ It’ s about opportunities,” said Multi-Craft President Rick Barrows.“ We believe allowing our employees to move to the division they are most interested in makes them happier in their work and creates more opportunities for career advancement,” he explained.
The company’ s different teams specialize in electrical, HVAC, plumbing, robotics, sheet metal, fabrication, crane and millwright services.
Multi-Craft Contractors helps employees build their career from the start with on-the-job training. For example, employees in the electrical and mechanical divisions start at $ 12 an hour as apprentices while earning their journeyman license, a four-year process that involves taking evening classes. For each semester a worker completes, they get a dollar an hour raise. After receiving their journeyman license, workers earn $ 22 an hour. Multi- Craft also offers tuition reimbursement for employees who pass their classes each semester. While most jobs at Multi-Craft do not require a college education, the company is also seeking electrical and mechanical engineers, estimators, and project managers with college degrees.
Developing certain skills in high school can help you in a future career at Multi-Craft. Jonathan Shaddox, the electrical division manager, recommended studying algebra and geometry.“ We use math in our work every day. If you are good at math, you don’ t have to go to college in order to find a job that lets you use those skills,” he said.
Marshall Rucker, a mechanical engineer, started at Multi-Craft as an information technology intern. After graduation, Rucker began working in the company’ s sheet metal division, which makes ductwork for buildings.
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“ Each division works together as a team on many of our projects so you have the opportunity to find out which one best suits your skills,” Rucker said. Multi-Craft’ s projects include installing jumbotrons at the University of Arkansas, working on the new Arkansas Children’ s Hospital, or