Building Your Dreams Together
Music City Construction Careers creates pathways to Union craft building trades careers for Nashville residents, with an emphasis on serving women, communities of color, transitioning veterans, and other populations historically under served by workforce development programs.
Nashville’s construction industry is booming, but the current workforce development pipeline is broken.
As a city, we’re missing a golden opportunity to create avenues to middle-class jobs for a generation of Nashvillians and to address the city’s growing racial and economic inequality.
To address these problems, we convene trade unions, business sponsors, and community groups to provide apprentice readiness programming and wraparound services including mentorship and career counseling.
By connecting working people to middle-class job training and opportunity, we aim to strengthen families, strengthen neighborhoods, and create a more equitable city for all.
Why Choose MC3?
State of the Art
Technology
Earn While
You Learn
Receive College
Credit
Industry’s Top
Instructors
Graduate
Debt Free
Sanctioned
Training
By preparing the next generation of Nashvillians to enter Union careers
in the construction craft trades, we hope to contribute to a Music City where development benefits everyone, not just the wealthy few.
Average Apprenticeship Pay: $18.70/hr + Benefits
Average Apprenticeship Graduate Pay:
$50,000 – $75,000/year + Benefits
Our Goals
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Provide pathways for low-income Nashvillians to enter rewarding, highskilled, and family-sustaining careers, while creating a pipeline of new talent to meet the booming construction industry’s labor demands
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Significantly increase the participation of underrepresented populations (including women, people of color, veterans, individuals with disabilities) in apprenticeship programs and construction crafts in Nashville
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Advocate for the critical role that apprenticeships programs can play in developing a skilled workforce and addressing inequality
“I’m so glad I came through MC3. It changed my outlook on the world. I didn’t think I would ever live middle class. Since MC3, I’ve been able to open a savings account, and I started putting half of what I make into it. In the next couple of years, I plan on buying a house, and my fiancée and I are planning our wedding in 2025. Those goals are obtainable for me now.”
Johnathan Schnell, Fall 2023 MC3 Graduate and second-year apprentice with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 223
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