Florida TRADE Grant Program Orientation

The Florida TRADE Grant Program Orientation helps individuals enhance skills, learn new skills, gain certifications, earn academic credits, and secure employment in the advanced manufacturing industry. With a $15 million grant awarded by the DOL, 12 colleges throughout Florida offer accelerated training programs targeting high-demand jobs, providing career counseling, job placements, and mentoring services. The program caters to students seeking careers, displaced workers, those at risk of job loss, individuals needing skills upgrade, and veterans transitioning from service. Certifications offered enable participants to obtain college degrees, and short-term training includes courses in CPT, drafting, design, welding, and AutoCAD. The Certified Production Technician course articulates to college credits and costs $1,100 inclusive of tuition, books, fees, and assessments. Discover the opportunities in manufacturing and how it can positively impact lives.

• Florida TRADE Grant
• Accelerated Training
• Manufacturing Industry
• Certifications
• Job Placement

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1. Florida TRADE Grant Program Orientation Florida TRADE Grant Program Orientation

2. $15 million grant awarded by the DOL 12 colleges throughout Florida Florida TRADE s mission is to develop and deliver accelerated training programs that upon completion would allow program participants to: 1. Upgrade current skills and knowledge 2. Learn new skills 3. Gain industry-recognized technical certifications 4. Earn academic credits toward college degrees 5. Procure employment Advanced Manufacturing: Technology Based Manufacturing:The making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale.

4. Students seeking a career Workers that have lost their jobs Workers who may be at risk of job loss Workers needing to update or increase skills Veterans returning from service

5. Certifications that help obtain a college degree Short-term training targeted to high-demand jobs Free career counseling and mentoring Free job and internship placement services

6. Why should you get certificate training rather than a 4-year degree?

9. Offered at PHSC: -CPT, Drafting and Design, Welding and AutoCAD

10. Certified Production Technician 80 to 96 Hours Four Modules Safety Quality Practices and Measurement Manufacturing Processes and Production Maintenance Awareness Articulates to15 college credits towards the A.S. in Engineering Technology $1,100- includes tuition, books, fees and assessments CPT Website

11. Why Manufacturing? Why Manufacturing? Manufacturing Changes Lives

12. PHSC 35 PHSC Consortium 200 Consortium Manufacturing Partners Students Enrolled 78 1152 Program Completers 17 381

13. -Over 425 manufacturers in Pasco and Hernando alone -Florida is the 4th largest manufacturing state in the U.S. in terms of establishments and 12th largest by employment. -On average, manufacturing jobs pay $10,000 more than the average annual wage of other non-farm jobs in Florida. Manufacturing- $52,378 Other- $42,312

14. Florida manufacturers employ almost 329,000 people As of May 2013, over 3,800 unfilled manufacturing jobs open in the Tampa Bay area On average, receive greater benefits than workers in other industries Websites: -fltrade.org -phsc.edu/floridatrade

15. Accuform Signs Airdyne Aerospace Alumi Guard AME International Anexa Biomedical Anvil Works Bauer Foundation Corporation C-5 Biotechnologies Chasco Machine & Manufacturing Clark Dietrich Building Systems Creative Inst. Of Dental Arts Custom Windows & Doors of Pasco DC Morrision Inc-Designer Golf Co. DC Morrision Inc- Furnishings DC Morrision Inc- Site Essentials Co. Earth Works Joni Industries L & S Custom Coaches LifeBack Enterprises Lifeline Medical Manufacturers Distrabutor Manzi Metals Mary Lame Wrought Iron & Aluminum MicroMatic Orbital Corp Petersen Metals Pharmaworks R & D Reps Rochester Electro-Medical SmartScience Laboratories Sparton Electronics Southeast Bottling and Beverage Thunderbolt International VLOC Web Direct Brands

16. Questions?