HAVE YOU EVER seen workers and equipment at a construction site and wondered, what’s going on over there? What are they building? If so, you’re certainly not alone. Someone had to build all of the structures in which we live, work and play, and the roads, trains, planes and ports that we use to get from one place to another.
For the workers that bring our places to life, it’s a major point of pride. And it’s an opportunity to work with your hands, as a team, outdoors to create something new and useful. The construction industry involves many companies in several different sectors and lots of different types of workers to get the job done. General contractors like CG Schmidt and Hunzinger lead the projects and coordinate the work done by numerous subcontractors. Architectural firms like Rinka and Eppstein Uhen and engineering firms like GRAEF and raSmith work on the design plans. And workers including carpenters, iron workers, operating engineers and others are the ones on the site doing the physical work. About 140,000 people in Wisconsin work in the construction industry, so there are plenty of opportunities if it sounds like the type of job you’d like to do.
