These craft professionals construct various types scaffold to access specific areas of a building or structure, including piping, ducting, and other objects in the commercial, industrial, maritime, and residential realms. A scaffold erector is required to work as a member of an assembly/ dismantling scaffolding crew and sometimes will work alone as part of an assisted build. A scaffold erector must also understand how to work safely during the set up and dismantling of temporary scaffold.
CITC’s four-year program is designed to prepare the scaffold erector students for a career in scaffold erection in multiple industries such as commercial, industrial, and maritime through lab work and instruction in topics such as frames, system, suspension, and tube & clamp scaffolding as well as shoring and shielding. Emphasis on safe work processes is stressed throughout the program. To receive a graduation certificate from CITC’s scaffold erector program a student must complete a minimum of nine (9) consecutive quarters (levels 2 through 4). It is assumed that all students are working in the field.
View Scaffold Erector Catalog Request InformationCITC programs are open to the public. CITC encourages diversity and accepts applications from all minority populations. CITC does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability. CITC acknowledges that information pertaining to an applicant's disability is personal and confidential. If the information is presented, CITC will reasonably attempt to provide accommodation to overcome the effects of the limitation of the qualified applicant. All inquiries about accommodations should be made to the Lead Office Administrator/Registrar upon registration into the program. Some programs may require medical documentation due to the rigors of the program. CITC operates under FERPA Statute 20 USC Section 1232 and regulation 34 CFR Part 99.
