The Industrial Trades Career Fair was held to match skilled job seekers with employers in South Louisiana from the manufacturing, construction, transportation, and distribution/warehousing industries.
Event held: Tuesday, August 12th, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon
Where: Cajundome Mardi Gras Ballroom, 444 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA
This information is updated regularly. Please check back often. Updated 08/11/2025
- Acadiana Bottling Company - loading swingman, merchandiser, drivers
- American Pollution Control Corp. - industrial technician, supervisor, CDL drivers
- Atmos Energy Corporation - service technicians, construction technicians
- Aviation Academy of LA - airframe & powerplant mechanic
- B&B Oilfield Services - machinist, welder
- Bank-Tec South - service technicians
- Blueline Manufacturing - machinists, dimensional inspector
- Bottomline Equipment - technicians, salesman
- Bow 2 Stern Services Inc - service techs
- C-Dive LLC, dba Champagne Energy & Environmental - master, master of towing, mate of towing, AB seaman, engineers, unlicensed engineers, ordinary seaman, deckhand/ oilers, cooks, dive supervisors, divers, tenders, chief mechanics, crane operators, rigger, welder
- Central Boat - tankerman, experienced tug deckhands (inland and offshore), licensed mates, masters of towing
- Cintas - management trainee, sales representative, route service representative, accounts receivable
- CleanBlast, LLC - land and offshore coating, sandblaster, painter, helper, UHP/ water jet blaster
- Compliance EnviroSystems, LLC - field technicians
- Danos - deepwater/ shelf operators, measurement technicians, I&E technicians, automation technicians, deepwater/ shelf mechanics, ballast control operators
- EIU - electrician, apprentice, journeyman, foreman, superintendents
- Enviro Resources LLC/ EMC - operators
- Ernest P. Breaux Electrical - laborer, electrical apprentice
- Express Employment - welders, construction workers, machinists, pipefitters, HVAC technicians, heavy equipment operators
- First Solar - production technician, maintenance technician, manufacturing engineering technician
- FMOLHS - Our Lady of Lourdes - maintenance, construction, facilities management, security
- Grand Isle Shipyard (GIS) - civil engineer, construction superintendent, crane operator, E&I electrician, E&I commercial superintendent, electrical engineer, estimator, environmental technician, equipment mechanic, riggers, rigger foreman, rope access welder, SCADA engineer, solar project manager, survey technician, welders, and more
- Kenworth of Louisiana - diesel technicians, mechanics
- Koch Specialty Plant Services - tower mechanics, welders, pipefitters, rigger, QC, safety
- Lofton Corporation - electricians, carpenters, HVAC, welders, maintenance technicians, machinists, mechanics
- Logic Control Systems - electrical technician, automation technician
- Marquette Transportation - captains, deckhands
- Merrick LLC - drivers, laborers, welders, machine operators
- Moncla - welders, drillers, supervisors, drivers
- Morton Salt - mechanics/ electricians
- Noble Plastics - maintenance technician, production operator
- Palfinger Marine USA LLC - field service engineer
- Peppers Unlimited of Louisiana - maintenance technicians
- RIGID Constructors - heavy equipment operator, foreman, superintendent, estimator, off road haul truck operators, dump truck operator
- SafeSource Direct - packaging, maintenance, quality engineer, production engineer, SMS manufacturing team member
- SLB - assembler, welder, machinist, inspector, diesel mechanic, electronics technician
- SONOCO - offshore cook and offshore galleyhand
- Southern Organizations - welders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, operators, construction workers
- Staffmark - warehouse, production, welding, machining
- Storer Services - licensed plumbers and journeyman HVAC technicians
- System Services - technicians (skilled and unskilled), linetechs, fiber splicers, HDD bore rig operators, fusers
- Taylors International Services - riggers and utility hands
- Turner Industries - certified combo welders, pipefitters, millwrights, painters, insulators, scaffold builder
- United States Army - variety of career fields including mechanics, constructions, and much more.
- United States Army Corps of Engineers - mechanics, machinists, maritime, lock & dam operators
- United States Navy - military and a various career fields
- Zachry Industrial - boilermaker, machinist, millwright, painter, welder, helper
Resource Service Providers
- Louisiana Dept. of Children and Family Services - resource information about the wrap around support services available from the state DCFS
- Louisiana Workforce Commission/ Acadiana Workforce Solutions - provide assistance through a variety of services for individuals to find employment and access workforce education.
- Skill Up for Economic Resilience - Partnership between LEDA and SoLAcc to enhance and expand the high wage / high demand career training programs in aviation technology, precision machining, and industrial maintenance
- South Louisiana Community College Adult Education - Service to assist individuals continue education to achieve HiSET / high school equivalency
- South Louisiana Community College - Short-term programs - enrollment into a variety of short-term training programs that lead to careers
Hosted by:
Lafayette Economic Development Authority (LEDA)
Louisiana Workforce Commission
South Louisiana Community College
