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26 | /INSIGHT ON MANUFACTURING • November 2020 w w w.in s i g h t o n m f g . c o m Customized. Innovative. Solutions. Services for Business & Industry Contact our industry experts today! www.fvtc.edu/EmployerResources • 920-735-2525 To stay competitive, you need to find, select and train new and existing employees. Let Fox Valley Technical College help you: • Find new employees • Evaluate with employee assessments • Enhance employee skills with seminars and customized training (920) 532-3828 | www.smet.com Our reputation is building Manufacturing Training Center in Marinette to train workers. The center has served more than 11,000 individuals since opening in 2012. Training has continued to take place around the clock throughout the pandemic. The facility offers training in welding, pipefitting and shipfitting and has an electrical lab that's wired with components for the FMM-built littoral combat ship — it will soon transition to components for the frigate. It's also finishing a new welding lab that will add 10 welding booths, with the addition slated to open this month. The center trains new employees as well as incumbent workers who need refreshers or upskilling. Other shipbuilders beyond FMM, as well as contractors, suppliers and vendors from all over the country, also use the facility. "That's what's really cool is that it's not company specific. It is industry specific," Jaeger says. Melissa Wollering, senior manager of communications and employee engagement for Fincantieri Marine Group, serves on the NCMMA leadership team. She says the alliance has done invaluable work that has paid off for her company, which is always recruiting for jobs from skills trades to engineering. "We have successfully been able to recruit more," she says of the NCMMA's efforts. "The North Coast Marine Manufacturing Alliance has been that mouthpiece that was missing." F F E AT U R E c o n t i n u e d "The North Coast Marine Manufacturing Alliance has been that mouthpiece that was missing." — Melissa Wollering, Fincantieri Marine Group