Organization Name Proposed Number Served Grant Description Partners Organization Name North Shore Workforce Proposed # Unemployed This grant will provide critical workforce development support to Career Center of Lowell Investment Board Served: 70 the Manufacturing industry in the Northeast region, under the ValleyWorks Career Center direction of the Northeast Manufacturing Consortium. The Career Center Partners Career Source Cities: Salem, Proposed # of Job Consortium will work to align training curricula to business skill North Shore Career Center Cambridge, Lowell & Placements: 53 demands, coordinate other general staff enhancement activities The Career Place Lawrence and help promote an updated image of manufacturing as an Raytheon Proposed # of Incumbent industry that has jobs with a future. Thermal Circuits Amount: $500,000 Workers Served: NA Fitz Machine Through this grant, 70 adults will enroll in one of three cycles of Bomco, Inc Sector: Manufacturing Proposed # of Incumbent training at the region’s community college of their choice. Applied Materials/Varian Wage Increases: NA Training will include a math refresher (if needed) and core Mills Machine Works Average Hourly Wage at manufacturing courses including OSHA, Microsoft, and TRU Corporation Placement: $15.00 manufacturing fundamentals. Students will have a choice of Arwood Machine Corp. participating in vocational training for machining or electronics. At Fleet Machine Company least 53 individuals will find employment with local business MCS Lase Services, Inc. partners or with other companies within the industry. In addition, Employer Partners Ideal Tape Company partners will work toward the goal of assigning college credit for Straumann Manufacturing those college courses that do not currently provide academic Boston Centerless, Inc. credit. The partners will also work to place courses on the ITA United Electric Controls approved vendor list. Course content will continue to be vetted Crystal Systems/GT Solar with business partners to ensure that skills learned are American Biltrite appropriate to business needs. GE Aviation The Custom Group The partnership includes co-investment from the Executive Office Boston Tooling & Machinery of Housing and Economic Development to support employer Operon engagement and from the Workforce Investment Boards in the New England Die Cutting form of Workforce Investment Act funds to support participant Other Partner John Adams Innovation Institute training costs. North Shore Community College Public Education Partners/Training Northern Essex Community College Vendors Middlesex Community College Greater Lawrence Technical Vocational High School Vocational Technical High School Minuteman Regional Vocational Partners Technical High School Essex Agricultural School
Organization Name Proposed Number Served Grant Description Partners Organization Name North Shore Workforce Investment Board Cities: Salem, Cambridge, Lowell & Lawrence Amount: $500,000 Sector: Manufacturing Average Hourly Wage at Placement: $15.00 Proposed # Unemployed Served: 70 Proposed # of Job Placements: 53 Proposed # of Incumbent Workers Served: NA Proposed # of Incumbent Wage Increases: NA This grant will provide critical workforce development support to the Manufacturing industry in the Northeast region, under the direction of the Northeast Manufacturing Consortium. The Consortium will work to align training curricula to business skill demands, coordinate other general staff enhancement activities and help promote an updated image of manufacturing as an industry that has jobs with a future. Through this grant, 70 adults will enroll in one of three cycles of training at the region’s community college of their choice. Training will include a math refresher (if needed) and core manufacturing courses including OSHA, Microsoft, and manufacturing fundamentals. Students will have a choice of participating in vocational training for machining or electronics. At least 53 individuals will find employment with local business partners or with other companies within the industry. In addition, partners will work toward the goal of assigning college credit for those college courses that do not currently provide academic credit. The partners will also work to place courses on the ITA approved vendor list. Course content will continue to be vetted with business partners to ensure that skills learned are appropriate to business needs. The partnership includes co-investment from the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development to support employer engagement and from the Workforce Investment Boards in the form of Workforce Investment Act funds to support participant training costs. Career Center Partners Career Center of Lowell ValleyWorks Career Center Career Source North Shore Career Center The Career Place Employer Partners Raytheon Thermal Circuits Fitz Machine Bomco, Inc Applied Materials/Varian Mills Machine Works TRU Corporation Arwood Machine Corp. Fleet Machine Company MCS Lase Services, Inc. Ideal Tape Company Straumann Manufacturing Boston Centerless, Inc. United Electric Controls Crystal Systems/GT Solar American Biltrite GE Aviation The Custom Group Boston Tooling & Machinery Operon New England Die Cutting Other Partner John Adams Innovation Institute Public Education Partners/Training Vendors North Shore Community College Northern Essex Community College Middlesex Community College Vocational Technical High School Partners Greater Lawrence Technical Vocational High School Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School Essex Agricultural School