NIMS, LIFT and Ivy Tech Release New Skills

The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) and Ivy Tech Community College (located throughout Indiana) are making available a new set of skills credentials and training to help fill open manufacturing jobs in states along the Midwest auto-corridor. The partners are releasing nine new NIMS credentials that validate key skills and competencies needed for industrial-technology maintenance jobs, which represent a critical and growing function in high-tech manufacturing focused on new technologies and innovation, according to LIFT officials.

“Manufacturing organizations—especially those serving the defense and transportation sectors—continue to embrace new lightweight metals and technologies, adding advanced technical requirements to critical jobs already going unfilled because workers do not have the required skills,” says Emily DeRocco, education and workforce development director for LIFT. “This is an unprecedented, yet critical, partnership to address the ever-increasing workforce needs of our industry partners and their supply chains.”

To support the rapid deployment of new lightweighting technologies being developed at LIFT, workers will have to understand and be confident in using the latest advanced technologies, help integrate them into companies’ processes, and maintain their performance over time. Nationally, there were 322,759 job postings for industrial-technology maintenance jobs between 2015-2016, but only 26,152 graduates in related training or post-secondary programs, according to NIMS stats.

For more information on the industrial-technology maintenance credentials, visit nimsready.org/industrial-technology-maintenance.

Technologies: Training

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