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Manufacturing skills training focuses on solar, bioscience industries
Photos and story by James Hill
Portland Community College’s Capital Career Center is recruiting students for its Advanced Manufacturing Skills Training.
The free eight-week program prepares people to work for new manufacturing companies moving into the Portland area, including San Francisco-based Genentech. The training will run Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., beginning April 21 at the Capital Career Center.
Interested students need to attend one of the following orientations: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., March 13, 20, 27, or April 3, Room 1509, Capital Career Center, 18624 N.W. Walker Road.
The training program is designed to upgrade math, science and other job skills quickly so that a student may progress into a credit-based PCC certificate program in bioscience, solar or microelectronics fields. The training provides a bridge to academic coursework and ultimately to higher-skilled, living-wage jobs for people who otherwise may not have access to them.
Genentech is one of the world’s leading biotech companies that engineers and manufactures drugs for serious or life-threatening medical conditions. The company is building a new plant in Hillsboro.
For more information or to request a flier, call Linda Browning, PCC project coordinator, at (503) 533-2535.
This program is financed in whole or part with funds provided through Worksystems Inc., from the U.S. Department of Labor. It is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Program. Auxiliary aids and services are available on request to individuals with disabilities.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »