The conventional wisdom is that manufacturing jobs are all going away, either sent overseas to be performed by low-wage workers in poor countries, or replaced by robots.
In fact, however, it seems that there are still lots of jobs available in manufacturing for people with the right skills. The only catch is that these aren't the sort of jobs that anyone with a pulse can do. That doesn't mean you have to go to college though.
Georgia embraces Germany’s apprenticeship model
Sounds like a better plan than "I'm gonna go to college and spend 4 years studying interpretive dance and gender studies."
In fact, however, it seems that there are still lots of jobs available in manufacturing for people with the right skills. The only catch is that these aren't the sort of jobs that anyone with a pulse can do. That doesn't mean you have to go to college though.
Georgia embraces Germany’s apprenticeship model
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Factory workers are aging and manufacturers are worried there won’t be enough young people with the technical skills to do their jobs. So 10 states have embraced Germany’s apprenticeship model to help fill these manufacturing positions. In Georgia, high school students are training for factory jobs in a German-style apprenticeship program. Seventeen-year-old Northgate High School student, Cole McKeehan, has a busy schedule but still manages to wake up at 3 a.m. on Fridays so he can get to his job at E.G.O. North America. "I love coming to work. This is something you know, unique, it's something I've never seen before,” McKeehan said. “My parents love it. They wish they had something like this they could have done." When he arrives at work, he clocks in, heads to his toolbox at his work station and gets hands-on training from an older employee who serves as his mentor. . . . This year, he expects to graduate with a high school diploma, an associate's degree in precision manufacturing and a full-time job offer. McKeehan is currently one of 27 students in the apprenticeship program. It began with just 10 students in the fall of 2016 in Coweta County, Georgia. “This is a great win-win for not only the student but obviously for industry,” said Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. The state launched the program in 2016 after a German company, Grenzebach, which makes manufacturing equipment for other factories, had trouble finding workers, Cagle said. The worker shortage is a national problem. A report from The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte found U.S. manufacturers need to fill more than 3.5 million jobs over the next decade. Starting with Tennessee in 2011, the German American Chamber of Commerce helped set up German-style apprenticeship programs in ten states: Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. There are plans underway to help expand the program to six more states. "When we have jobs for manufacturing or reliability technicians, we have a hard time filling them,” said Tony Wilding, a manager of the Michelin Tread Technologies plant in Covington, Georgia. “We have to go outside of the area." Wilding’s company recently recruited a 15-year-old high school sophomore. |
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