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Sheet Metal Apprenticeships

The Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (JATC) is a federally approved apprenticeship training program covering the Southern Idaho, and NE Oregon regions. 

Our JATC is a registered non-profit joint labor-management training trust between the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union #55 and Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA).

We currently have approved training programs in four occupations: sheet metal worker, HVAC service technician, HVAC testing, adjusting and balancing (TAB) technician and residential sheet metal worker.

The sheet metal worker, HVAC service technician, HVAC TAB technician programs are 4 years in length with 8,000 hours of on-the-job training. Sheet metal worker and HVAC service technician apprentices attend 240 hours per year of related supplemental instruction classes.

All active apprentices are registered with the Idaho State Department of Labor and are being trained by the JATC in one of the occupations listed above.

Full-time day classes are held 40 hours a week in our Boise training center for sheet metal worker, HVAC service technician, HVAC TAB technician apprentices.

First Year apprentices attend their supplemental training classes in the evening.

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In addition to our apprenticeship training classes, the Sheet Metal JATC offers evening and Saturday Continuing Education classes for apprentices and journeymen to keep all the members of SMART Local 55 up to date on their skills and abilities in the sheet metal industry.