Ivy Tech Community College is partnering with a couple of national organizations to enhance and expand training to fill the largest number of open manufacturing jobs in states along the autocorridor. Ivy Tech, along with the National Institute for Metalworking Skills and Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, will prepare a new industrial technology maintenance workforce, which drives the performance and improvement of high-tech manufacturing and accounts for 60% of job growth from 2011 to 2014 in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.
There are currently nearly 39,000 industrial technology maintenance jobs posted in the region. Ivy Tech will launch a new instructor training facility to prepare 50 instructors to deliver the training, and NIMS will bring to market credentials that certify individuals’ skills by Fall of 2016.
National Institute for Metalworking Skills executive director Jim Walls says while employers are facing a real-time skills gap, job vacancies and competitive wages—which can average up to $25.00/hour—mean that opportunities abound for motivated people looking to secure good jobs in a growing, technology-driven field.
