CEG works within our strategic industry clusters to help develop and deliver partnerships and programming to support a strong workforce pipeline and advances the careers of incumbent workers.

Our team and our partners work daily to build a skilled workforce, strengthen our education and workforce pipeline, and cultivate a strong and diverse workforce ecosystem to ensure our regional companies can grow.  Below are several active programs and services available through CEG and our partners.

Online Business Training & Industrial Safety Training

Online Training from Center for Economic Growth and Tooling U-SME offers a quick-start, progressive road map that allows manufacturers to build career paths for employees. This online training is intended to enhance your existing on the job training to create a job progression plan and requires minimal preparation. it is efficient, effective training that has been developed with input from manufacturing experts.

Job Quality Assessment

Are you an employer of choice? The challenge of attracting and retaining a diverse, productive, engaged workforce has grown significantly in recent years. Workers seek quality jobs, and companies that prioritize job quality become employers of choice.

Take our Job Quality Assessment to identify areas of strength to build on and weaknesses to address.

Manufacturing Workforce Programs

CEG’s region has a number of workforce development resources, all of which work towards the greater goal of ensuring a strong pipeline of highly skilled, educated workers that can meet the needs of our growing industries. To ensure that workforce training is demand-driven, CEG works closely with businesses, community colleges and training institutions to identify and address specific training needs so that programs are tailored to available jobs.

Funding Partners