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: Wednesday, August 19, 9am to 12 noon
Where: Heymann Convention Center, 1373 South College, Lafayette, LA
Businesses: Click Here to register your business for an exhibit table!
Job Seekers: Click Here to pre-register to attend the event!
This information is updated regularly. Please check back often. Updated 07/06/2026
Acadiana Bottling Company - merchandisers, CDL drivers, loading / warehouse positions
Acuren - NDT assistants, level II NDT technicians, level II RT technicians, API inspectors, rope access inspectors, mechanical (welders, insulators, pipefitters)
Blueline Manufacturing - machinists and general labor
Bottom Line Equipment - diesel technician, class A CDL driver
CleanBlast - sandblaster, commercial spray painter, UHP blaster, blaster/ helper, UHP pump operator
Custom Tower, LLC - tower climber
CVD Ceramics, Inc - fabrication technician (machinist), process operator
D & S Marine Service, LLC - truck driver, deckhands, tankerman, and wheelman
Danos - production operators, I&E technicians, deepwater mechanics, electricians, automation technicians, valve technicians, power generation techs
DMR Technologies - drone technician, flight controls testing, shop interns
Doug Ashy Building Materials- ware house staff, stagers, CDL drivers
Empire Wireline LLC - operators
EP Breaux Utility Services - journeyman, foreman, superintendants
Express Employment - plumbers, CDL drivers, electricians, welders/ fitters, machinists, mechanics
First Solar - manufacturing technicians, production operators, production technicians
Five S Group - survey technician I, survey technician III, survey CAD technician, survey design modeler
Flowers Baking Company of Lafayette - production operator and industrial maintenance technician
Frederick's Manufacturing- welders, machinists
GIS (Grand Isle Shipyard) - A operator, offshore construction superintendent, offshore electrician, offshore mechanic, production operator B, rigger, rigger foreman, rope access blaster painter, rope access fitter, rope access welder, rope access rigger, rope access scaffold builder, scheduler, senior capital project estimator, structural fitter, survey party chief, survey project manager, survey technician, valve technician, wind technician, and more.
Loadmaster Industries - welders, fitters, rope access, estimator
Lofton Staffing - carpenter, machinists, inspectors, service technicians, mechanics, installers, welders, welder helpers
McIlhenny Company - various manufacturing positions including: machine operator, material handler, mash unit operator, and more
NPK International, Inc. - manufacturing technicians, manufacturing operators
Pneumatic and Hydraulic Company - shipping and receiving, production assemblers, welders
Quality Companies - operators, welders, fitters, electricians, instrument technicians, fiber optic technicians, helpers
Rigid Constructors- laborers, operators, deckhands
SONOCO- offshore cooks, offshore galleyhands
Southern Organization - welder/ fabricators, steel erectors, carpenters, electrician, plumber, drivers, precast concrete workers
Sterling Automotive - entry level to certified automotive technicians
Stuller - variety of manufacturing technician and operator positions and logistics operations positions
Sunland Construction - welders, electricians, diesel mechanics, heavy equipment operators, dredge technicians, skilled laborers
System Services - laborers, welders, pipeline technicians
Taylors International Services -riggers, welders, utility hands, able bodied seaman, ordinary seaman
Turner Industries -a variety of construction trades including entry-level and skilled craft
TWG Nutrition - production operator, lab technician, maintenance technician, quality technician, sanitation
US Army - active duty/ army reserves in a variety of career and skilled trade fields
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