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Local 400’s Training Center
Step inside Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 400’s 60,000+ sq. ft. state-of-the-art training center in Kaukauna, WI, and see how you can build a high-paying, 6-figure career in the skilled pipetrades without taking on a single dollar of college debt.
Join Dustin Delsman, Assistant Business Manager at Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 400, as he walks you through this state-of-the-art pipetrades tech school in northeastern Wisconsin.
What You’ll See on This Tour:
- Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) Lab: Master 3D animated blueprint modeling and pre-fabrication tech for the final deliverable (building, infrastructure, facility) modeled in BIM for visualization, simulation, and optimization.
- 35+ State-of-the-Art Welding Booths: Train on stick, TIG, MIG, sub-arc, and high-tech orbital welding across various metals and pipe sizes.
- Soldering & Brazing Lab: Assemble copper piping for fluid distribution and specialized medical gas systems used in a variety of facilities.
- Tube Bending Lab: Apply practical math and trigonometry to precision-bend soft copper & stainless steel tubing for field installations.
- Journeyman Certification Training Equipment: Earn advanced certifications in backflow prevention, heavy crane rigging, and valve repair, to name a few.
- Wet Plumbing Lab: Inspect real-time drain, waste, and venting using transparent PVC piping.
- HVAC & Mechanical Systems: Trace color-coded heating and cooling loops to see how supports, hangers, and commercial heating, ventilating, and air conditioning and refrigeration equipment fit together.
Why Choose a UA Local 400 Apprenticeship?
- Zero Debt & Paid Training: Stop paying high tuition for online platforms or universities. Your class fees, tools, and materials are fully covered while you earn an hourly wage on the job. You supply gloves, safety glasses, and a one-time book fee.
- 6-Figure Earning Potential: Journeymen plumbers, steamfitters, fabricators, and HVAC-R technicians earn high-paying wages alongside top-tier health and pension benefits.
- AI-Proof Career Security: While AI replaces desk jobs, local journeymen are actively needed to install, set up, and weld critical infrastructure for data centers, hospitals, and manufacturing facilities. These skills cannot be replaced or outsourced.
- No Experience Required: Field-experienced PROs teach you from scratch. Train with instructors in small classes covering everything from high-tech 3D modeling to advanced welding.
- Get Out From Behind the Screen: Escape working behind a counter or desk and build real, respectable projects across Northeast Wisconsin, including the Fox Valley, Green Bay, Sheboygan, and Fond du Lac.
Whether you are dealing with academic burnout, looking for a solid college alternative, or searching for a high-earning career change that can’t be replaced by AI, UA Local 400 offers clear opportunities, respect, and long-term financial security.
Register in our career portal at https://pipetradecareers.com/wi/400-2/ to get started today.
Getting Here
Our address is 2700 Northridge Dr., Kaukauna, WI 54130.
Please call in advance of visiting so that we can schedule your tour with a staff member.
