MCC Continuing Professional Education (MCC CPE) is helping area residents get ready for work. Cole Homer recently completed a cohort-style 300-hour welding program through a partnership between Full Employment Council (FEC) and MCC CPE. Immediately after completion, Cole was hired by Webco Manufacturing, Inc. in Olathe, Kan. Webco is an employee owned company in the custom, production, and industrial fabrication industry.
Instructor, Jeffrey Metz, said the students have very little, or no, welding experience upon entering the program.
“I didn’t know if I’d be good at welding,” said Homer. “I have never done anything like this before, but I felt ready when I started my new job, and [they] are giving me on-the-job training.”
The program focuses on three common welding processes; SMAW (shielded metal arc welding), GMAW (gas metal arc welding) and GTAW (gas tungsten arc welding). The courses are based on American Welding Society standards to get the student workforce ready. Welding classes are held at MCC-Business & Technology campus (MCC-BTC).
During the program, students are provided help with resume writing, job search strategies, and interviewing skills by the instructor. Metz is a part-time instructor with more than 20 years experience in the U.S. Air Force as a machinist and air craft welder. He has worked at several machine shops and is soon going to work full-time for MCC-BTC employer partner, Harley Davidson, as a welding engineer.
Metz believes that it is important to equip these students not only with information, but hands-on skills so they feel comfortable at work from the very first day. According to Metz, Homer was able to catch-on to the material quickly because of the blend of 75 percent hands-on and 25 percent classroom instruction. This blend of hands-on training and classroom instruction is the model in all MCC CPE programs.
The goal is to prepare unemployed or underemployed people for work, or promotion in their current position.
For more information, go to mcckc.edu/getreadyforwork or call 816.604.1600.
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