Manufacturing Pipeline

SEVAMP – Southeast Virginia Advanced Manufacturing Pipeline

Manufacturing companies throughout the region and the nation have identified critical issues in hiring:

• Inability to attract workers with required skills
• Graying of the workforce — 50% of the workforce is projected to retire by 2010
• Emerging workforce unprepared for the workplace
• Retaining good employees difficult because of competition

The Peninsula Council for Workforce Development is one of the regional partners in a special project funded through the Department of Labor to address these issues. The pipeline process was designed as a flexible-entry-flexible-exit (FEFE) system to be brought to every manufacturer in Hampton Roads to:

• Improve job skills standards
• Simplify the hiring and training processes
• Facilitate the development of unskilled and underskilled job applicants in manufacturing
• Increase the ability of workers to obtain "good" jobs with "good" wages and benefits

To discover more about SEVAMP and manufacturing job opportunities in Hampton Roads contact us today.

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