WELLS — York County Community College and the Maine Quality Centers have extended an existing agreement with Pratt & Whitney in North Berwick for the triaining of eight additional cohorts of the Next Gen Machining Program.
The program will train up to 96 new hires over the next year. The training, which is available to Maine residents only, includes 120 hours of instruction over six weeks in courses such as Precision Machining, Blueprint Reading, GD&T, and Math.
Since the partnership was first signed in February 2015, York County Community College has trained 15 Next Gen Machining cohorts for Pratt & Whitney.
The current session began in October and it is expected that training for all sections will be concluded later this month.
For more information about the Next Gen Machining Program or other workforce development programs, please contact Stefanie Bourque, Director of Continuing Education at YCCC at 216-4321 or by email at sbourque@yccc.edu.
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