The site,, resulted from the manufacturing workforce partnership but is for all types of jobs and employers, not exclusively manufacturing. Community Job Connect, an online job posting and search website that features Champaign County-based jobs, including internships for students.This year’s Manufacturing Day will be held Oct. Manufacturing Day activities for local high school students, including tours of local manufacturing facilities and presentations by manufacturers at Urbana University.A display at the Champaign County Fair, featuring local manufacturers and their products and job opportunities.Inventors Camp, held the past three years at the Champaign Family YMCA, to introduce children, ages 6 to 12, to manufacturing through hands-on activities and presentations by representatives of local manufacturing companies.Many Advanced Manufacturing students will go directly from high school to manufacturing jobs, while others like Zizzo and Kaylor will obtain additional training and education.Ĭhampaign County’s manufacturing workforce partnership has been promoting manufacturing careers in additional ways that include: And the program includes introductory classes for middle school students. Next school year, the fourth year of the program, Robotics will be added to the curriculum. Kaleb Kaylor interned at the Hall Company in Urbana in the summer of 2016, after graduating from Triad and before beginning studies at Wright State University.īodey said 52 students are enrolled this school year in the three courses offered in the Advanced Manufacturing program – Manufacturing Operations for first-year students, Computer Integrated Manufacturing for second-year students and CNC Technologies for third-year students. Zizzo is the second Triad Advanced Manufacturing student to intern with a local manufacturer. This can’t wait.”Īnd that’s how the Triad Advanced Manufacturing program came to be. She said that representatives of local manufacturers told her, “We really need to do something to create a more prepared workforce. Local schools have also been brought into the partnership to help find ways to prepare students for skilled jobs that manufacturers are having difficulty filling.ĭebbie Wortman, Ohio Hi-Point’s satellite director, got involved in the partnership. The CEP worked with local manufacturers to form the Champaign County Manufacturing Human Resources Council. The Advanced Manufacturing program at Triad is a product of a manufacturing workforce partnership formed by the Champaign Economic Partnership (CEP), Champaign County’s economic development agency. Zizzo came to ORBIS endorsed by Todd Bodey, who teaches Ohio Hi-Point Career Center’s Advanced Manufacturing program, which began at Triad High School in 2015, at the start of Zizzo’s junior year.īefore going into education, Bodey worked for a variety of companies, including Honeywell Aerospace in Urbana, so he knows what manufacturers look for in employees. “We’ll have a new employee who has the skills we need to succeed and who understands our culture.” He adds, smiling, “and has new ideas to bring to the plant.” Szklany says ORBIS will benefit from Zizzo’s internship. That comes with the promise of a job at ORBIS after graduation. And while he works, ORBIS is providing Zizzo tuition assistance for the two-year mechanical engineering technology program at Clark State Community College. ORBIS recently hired Zizzo as a paid intern. So is Dan Szklany, plant manager of ORBIS Corporation in Urbana. Zack Zizzo, a 2017 Triad High School graduate, is among those already seeing the benefits. A local initiative – to prepare Champaign County students for in-demand manufacturing careers and help supply the skilled employees local manufacturers need – is beginning to pay off.

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