Construction Project Specialist

Company: Army National Guard
Location: Wahoo
Posted on: April 30, 2024

Job Description:

Expand your construction skills and join the Army National Guard as a Carpentry and Masonry Specialist. You'll gain extensive, hands-on experience in the construction and maintenance of rigging devices, building layout, framing, and fabrication, and assisting in combat engineer missions.
Through the use of your basic carpentry and masonry skills, your responsibilities will involve general heavy carpentry, structural steel, and masonry duties that include the fabrication, erection, maintenance, and repair of rigging devices, trusses, and other structural assemblies.
Assist in the performance of combat engineer missions
Basics in concrete technology, materials, proportioning, and control tests
--- Basics in structure foaming, roofing, and flooring
Preference for working outdoors
--- Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career in commercial and residential construction as a mason, carpenter, cement mason, concrete finisher, drywall installer, or ceiling tile installer. If you achieve an advanced level, you could hold positions such as foreman, shift manager, field supervisor, or inspector.
Instead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn these valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.
After 10 weeks of Basic Training, where you will learn fundamental Soldiering skills, you will attend nine weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT), which includes a combination of hands-on and classroom training. Advanced Carpentry and Masonry Specialists take on more challenging projects, including training and supervising other Soldiers.
Paid training
- Montgomery GI Bill
- Retirement benefits for part-time service
- Most non-prior service candidates will earn between $200 and $250 per drill weekend, subject to change


Must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate
Must be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards
Must be between the ages of 17 and 35 trade journeyman master carpenter mason

Keywords: Army National Guard, Council Bluffs , Construction Project Specialist, Professions , Wahoo, Iowa