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Join a National Consortium Developing Courseware and Career Pathways for Rail Vehicle Maintainers

Posted December 2014

The Center is nearing the end of an active and successful recruitment period for mass transportation agencies and unions to join us in our FTA Proposal, “Pathways that Work for the Industry and the Community.”  This coming week is the final time period for outreach, and the Center is interested in hearing from any agencies we have not yet reached who may be interested in participating.

Project participants will collaborate with other agencies, unions and educators to create curriculum based on national industry training standards which will assist locations in meeting both their training and recruitment needs.  Rail agency locations are working to create a full system of qualification for rail technicians (link to E-7 report).  All locations will also work on a pre-employment curriculum to get new entrants prepared to learn in a technically challenging work environment.  Any location interested in this project should contact Project Manager Tia Brown or Director Jack Clark. To ensure that we can add you to our consortium, please contact us no later than December 12th, 2014