Today, Hooper has grown tremendously since its beginning over one hundred years ago. With nine industries in total, including overhead line, substation, underground electric construction, line clearance tree trimming, plumbing, process piping, fire protection, custom metals fabrication, and HVAC, Hooper presently employs nearly 600 employees.
Building Your Future
Hooper Corporation is always looking for the best and brightest individuals to join its staff. As a corporation, Hooper’s employees fuel its success and measurement of achievement. Employees are dedicated to meeting customer needs and are committed to making clients’ visions a reality. Hooper employees are top-rated in design, engineering, project management, and business expertise. Staying ahead of industry trends and changing technology, while providing continued education for employees throughout their employment, is a top priority at Hooper.
Current Openings
Please click below for a list of current job openings.
Interested in applying for a position at Hooper, but don’t see an opening that matches your skills? Please use the “General Job Application”.
Corporate Culture
Hooper is a great place to learn and grow. With an emphasis on collaboration, employees share similar goals and look forward to celebrating progress together. Our employees are self-motivated and driven to get the job done right and on time.
When we are not working, we get together for annual company events, such as Mallards games, brat frys, and happy hours.
Meet Our People
Corporate headquarters located in Madison, Wis., and regional offices in Canada, Detroit, and Denver, allow Hooper to provide an expansive workforce with experience in completing large and complex projects. The company is also capable of traveling throughout the continental U.S. and Canada.
As a privately owned company with no outside shareholders, Hooper is proud of the growth and succession over multiple generations of hands-on professional owner-operators.
Benefits
Hooper Corporation and General Heating and Air Conditioning provide a competitive compensation program to attract and retain top talent. We also offer excellent health insurance and dental benefits, life and disability insurance, sick pay, paid vacation time, and a 401k retirement plan.
Continuing Education
First things first. You may not be thinking about your next educational opportunity today, but someday you might. Hooper offers many options for continuing education and industry training.
Skilled Trade Positions
Hooper Corporation is a construction skilled trade employer. The skilled construction trades have much to offer individuals who are qualified, motivated, and enjoy the physical nature of the work.
For those individuals interested in becoming a journeyperson in one of the skilled trades employed by Hooper, you must first apply and then be indentured into a trade specific apprenticeship program. The Construction Workforce Diversity Alliance (CWDA) offers skilled trades apprenticeship information sessions on the second Tuesday each month if you’d like to learn more about what apprenticeships have to offer.
If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding position with Hooper Corporation, please see links below for the union trades we hire through.
Electric Power Division
If interested in joining Hooper’s Electric Power Division as a journey lineperson, you must be indentured into the Line Apprenticeship Program, which is administered jointly through the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
The journey lineperson apprenticeship program typically lasts four years and requires a combination of schooling and hands-on work experience. Apprentices get a certain predetermined percentage of a journeyman’s wage, which increases incrementally over the length of the apprenticeship.
Other field positions in Hooper’s Electric Power Division that require IBEW union affiliation without indenture into an apprenticeship program are:
- Tree trimmers
- Operators
- Ground persons
- Underground electrical installers
- Shop mechanics
- Warehouse personnel
Hooper’s Electric Power Division includes the following departments:
- Overhead Line
- Substation
- Underground Electric Construction
- Line Clearance Tree Trimming
Mechanical Division
If interested in joining our Mechanical Division as a journeyperson, you must first be indentured into an apprenticeship program that is typically five years in duration requiring a combination of schooling and hands-on work experience. Apprentices get a certain predetermined percentage of a journeyman’s wage, which increases incrementally over the length of the apprenticeship.
Hooper is affiliated with and employs apprentices in the following mechanical trade apprenticeship programs:
- Steamfitters
- Sheet metal workers
- Plumbers
- Sprinkler fitters
Other field positions in Hooper’s Mechanical Division that may require union affiliation but do not require indenture into an apprenticeship program are:
- Shop and warehouse personnel
Hooper’s Mechanical Division includes the following departments:
- Process Piping
- Plumbing
- Fire Protection
- Custom Metals Fabrication
Apprenticeship Program
We encourage interested individuals to contact the following organizations to learn more about the apprenticeship opportunities offered.
Electric Power Division
American Line Builders Apprenticeship Training
1900 Lake Road
PO Box 370
Medway, OH 45341
(937) 849-4177 • (800) 223-9339 toll-free
Missouri Valley Line Constructors Apprenticeship & Training Program
1707 N 14th Street
Indianola, IN 50125
(515) 961-5062 • (888) 254-0714 toll-free
Area Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee
Mechanical Division
- Steamfitting
Milwaukee Area Steamfitting Joint Apprenticeship Committee
3300 S 103rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53227
(414) 543-0601 • (888) 543-0601 toll-free
- Custom Metals Fabrication
Madison Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Committee
5940 Seminole Centre Court, Suite 102
Madison, WI 53711
(608) 288-1414
- Plumbing
Madison Area Plumbing Joint Apprenticeship Committee
5940 Seminole Centre Court, Suite 102
Madison, WI 53711
(608) 288-1414
- Sprinkler Fitting
Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee
7050 Oakland Mills Road, Suite 100
Columbia, MD 21046
(410) 312-5202 • (800) 638-0592 toll-free
Qualifications
General minimum qualifications to enter these programs typically include:
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be a high school graduate or equivalent G.E.D.
- Valid driver’s license
- Pre-employment alcohol and drug testing
- May require an entrance exam
