Dear Manufacturing Colleagues,
Just a reminder, if your company hires employees for industrial maintenance jobs, we’re having an advisory meeting between community colleges and manufacturers to discuss training & education for this important career. This is happening on October 14 at Recology in SF. More details are below.

If interested, please RSVP 10/14/16.

And even if you can’t make it, please show your interest to be included on future updates by RSVP’ing “no”.  There will be other opportunities for you to advise the colleges on this topic.

Regards,
Mark


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Mark Martin, PhD
Regional Director (DSN), Bay Area
Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development
California Community Colleges

(650) 248-7728

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Industrial Maintenance Technician/Mechanic Stakeholders,

Hi All,
 
Over the last 6.5 years, the community colleges have worked on improving their programs in Industrial Maintenance machining through a “marketplace” approach - where the colleges sit down with industry to gain feedback on how to update and improve their programs. These meetings result in curriculum updates, new classes, internships, and overall a much closer connection between the colleges and local industry. 
 
For next steps, we now feel it’s important to focus a new marketplace on more general Industrial Maintenance careers, where machining is not the core skill of the job. We expect there to be a number of companies interested in an Industrial Maintenance-Technician/Mechanic marketplace that focuses on the following types of jobs:
 
Industrial Maintenance Technician / Mechanic Description
Troubleshoot, adjust, install, repair, and/or maintain industrial production and processing machinery. Duties may involve troubleshooting and repairing electronics, electrical or mechanical equipment; lubricating machinery, changing parts, or performing other routine machinery maintenance; pipe fitting; welding; machining; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment, etc.

We are having an exploratory Industrial Maintenance Technician / Mechanic Marketplace meeting on Oct. 14 and would like for you to Save The Date.

We know there will not be just one training curriculum that will meet the needs of the range of manufacturing sectors and companies in the Bay Area, so we want to have a wide variety of company input so we can create flexible programs to meet your needs.

If you are interested in talking to the Bay Area community colleges that prepare students for these important careers, this is your opportunity!
 
Details as we know them thus far:
Friday, October 14, 2016
9AM-2PM (Breakfast available at 9AM, meeting starts at 9:30AM)
Location TBD: (East Bay)
Breakfast and Lunch Provided
Link to Tentative Agenda
 
If you plan on attending, please RSVP (Yes / Maybe / No, but keep me on the mailing list) at this link: RSVP 10/14/16
 
Thank you and we look forward to hosting you.
 
 
Kit O'Doherty
Director, Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC)
(650) 560-9798
kitodoherty@gmail.com