Looking for machinists?

The next cohort of the Nashua Community College Precision Manufacturing Boot Camp is in session. 10 students are currently enrolled in this pipeline program to learn entry level skills for various machinist roles. The current cohort will graduate on 29 March 2024. Connect with your future workforce today. To connect, email Jon Mason at Nashua Community College.

Attend a New England Submarine Shipbuilding Partnership Project MFG Event

Are you looking to connect with your workforce's next generation? Want to see the skills our regional career and technical education high schools are preparing their students with? Apply to attend a New England Submarine Shipbuilding Partnership Project MFG Event this spring as a Community Partner. Connect to students eager to join your team, watch the students compete in a welding competition, and interact with leaders from across industry, region, and the government. SENEDIA, General Dynamics Electric Boat and Project MFG are hosting events in Groton, CT on 29 April 2024, and Providence, RI on 6 May 2024. It is free to attend. Click here to apply to attend to either event or both.

Coordinate an intern for summer 2024

Would you like to expand your workforce next summer? CTE students across the region are looking for work-based learning opportunities. There is funding to support internships available through the Partnership's CTE Internship Opportunity Program. Employers can receive up to $15/hour per intern for up 320 hours. The Partnership can also help connect your organization to internship candidates. To connect to CTE candidates or access funding for the internships, visit Submarine.SENEDIA.org/Internships/.

Training Funding is Available

Do you need to upskill a veteran employee, or get a certification for a new hire? Funding is available through the New England Submarine Shipbuilding Partnership's Incumbent Worker/New Hire Trades and Industrial Skills Training Program. Employers can receive reimbursements for up to $30,000 per company, $10,000 per trainee for trades and industrial skills training programs. To access this funding, please complete the form here. Additional information on this program can be found at Submarine.SENEDIA.org/Training/.

Navy Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) Program Overview

The Navy and our submarine industrial base are supporting the largest submarine recapitalization effort in nearly 50 years, at a time when American manufacturing and shipbuilding capacity has atrophied more than 60-percent since the end of the Cold War. The submarine industrial base, led by our prime shipbuilders General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, along with our public shipyards and the 16,000 suppliers across the country, are critical to the Navy’s ability to reach and sustain the required submarine production cadence of one Columbia Class submarine and two Virginia Class submarines per year, known as “1+2”, and ensure sustainment of existing submarine platforms.

The Navy’s Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) Program was established in October 2021 to develop, implement, and execute a plan to stabilize, enhance, and grow the submarine industrial base by addressing the wide range of challenges to industrial base capacity, capability, and workforce. The SIB Program is executing a holistic strategy to address 5 “must win” battle spaces in our current competitive landscape:

Battle #1: Surging Demand, Uneven Response: Key efforts to shore up the required resiliency and robustness in critical SIB markets and suppliers, including communication and collaboration around the magnitude, prioritization, and timing of efforts.

Battle #2: A War for Talent: Addressing defense workforce challenges across a continuum of models, velocity, and people to build and fill industrial base talent pipelines while concurrently improving retention, culture, and mission connection.

Battle #3: Technology at Scale: Manufacturing technology effectively deployed across the SIB, and strategic and aggressive decisions that appropriately balance risks and opportunities.

Battle #4: Weaponizing Data Analytics: Quantitatively and qualitatively describe challenges, gaps, and the impact of efforts/investments that drive the required levels of urgency and to transition culture in a way that sustains success.

Battle #5: Building a Strategic Network of Disciples and Diplomats: To achieve the required levels of scale and speed, efforts must be a “whole of Government, whole of Industry” approach that demands accountability and action, and leverages champions and advocacy at every level.

The SIB Program – working closely with stakeholders across the enterprise – has made significant progress to-date, including: funding supply chain capability and capacity efforts in more than 30 states, working with industry partners to effectively outsource ~4 million hours of fabrication and heavy manufacturing work from EB and HII-NNS, supporting the training and development of more than 4,000 workers since 2020 through dedicated training programs and trades pipelines, and establishing an industry-academic consortium to mature and scale Additive Manufacturing technology across the industrial base while simultaneously deploying key advancements in automation, robotics, and non-destructive test. The team is building on progress made in prior years, while leveraging a data-driven framework to understand progress and return on investment, illuminate and quantify challenges, and inform decision-making. The continued partnership and collaboration between the Navy and industry teams is a critical enabler of submarine shipbuilding and sustainment success.

General Dynamics Electric Boat

Summer High School Intern Program

The General Dynamics Electric Boat SHIP (Summer High School Intern Program) application closes in 1 month! If you know a high school junior who is interested, now is the time for them to apply.

SHIP is an 8-week paid, summer internship for local high school students who are currently in their junior year of high school (will complete junior year by June 2024). Interns must be at least 16 years of age, and a US Citizen. Interns will work side-by-side with trained mentors who have years of shipbuilding experience.

The following organizations will be accepting SHIP students:

Groton Operations (Metal Trades & Carpentry): Machining, Sheetmetal, Piping, Electrical, Welding, Shipfitting, and Carpentry

Groton Design: Electrical, Electronics, Piping/Ventilation, Structural/Arrangements, Materials

Quonset Point Operations: Machining, Electrical, Pipefitting, and Welding

For More info and to apply:

Groton: https://lnkd.in/dasqVQZx

Quonset: https://lnkd.in/dpm7AmHX

BlueForge Alliance Organization Overview

BlueForge Alliance (BFA) is proud to support the more-than-15,000 suppliers making up the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Industrial Base (SIB). That includes General Dynamics Electric Boat, where we are grateful to employees for bringing undersea military platforms off blueprints and into oceans and seas.

BFA is the Navy’s non-profit, neutral integrator working to strengthen and sustain the maritime manufacturing sector. The collective focus of BFA is squarely on supporting the Navy’s “1+2” submarine addition goal. Building one Columbia-Class and two Virginia-Class submarines each year for the foreseeable future to recapitalize the Navy’s submarine force structure will require significant workload increases across the SIB. To meet the needs, the nation’s manufacturing workforce must increase significantly.

BFA is part of the “Whole of Government, Whole of Industry” approach being taken by the SIB in this effort. Experts in workforce development, manufacturing, technology, economic development, defense, government, and marketing and communications are working to expand the next generation of skilled tradespeople and deploy modern manufacturing techniques to SIB suppliers. This means collaborating with industry, community, and academic leaders across the nation.

The front-facing workforce website of BFA is BuildSubmarines.com. Early showcasing of the site connecting people with career and training opportunities included advertising during college football bowl games in late 2022 and the 2023 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. In May 2023, BFA began an engagement with NASCAR’s RFK Racing to feature the site to a large, passionate fanbase during Cup Series races. GDEB was featured alongside BuildSubmarines.com on Brad Keselowski’s #6 car during the July 2023 race in New Hampshire. BFA launched a robust national marketing campaign effort showcasing a newly developed website and career hub that will not only better inform interested job seekers, but connect them with available training and job opportunities across the vast network of suppliers involved with the SIB. SIB suppliers wishing to post jobs and interact with job-seekers can create a profile on BuildSubmarines.com.

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New England Talent Pipeline Project Overview

The Talent Pipeline team supports the United States Navy’s initiative to energize and engage the American economy by creating and sustaining a maritime and defense industrial base. This Program focuses on enabling employers to re-capitalize their workforce through recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining skilled workforce members with critical trade skills as productive and engaged new employees.

The overall scope of this effort is to allow for substantive and meaningful employer partnerships in creating customized Talent Pipelines, based upon the local employer’s actual job requirements, focused on small and medium Defense Industrial Base Employers. The Talent Acquisition and Retention Pipeline Solution program “Partners” are employers, and the product is an energized local economy in which employers are enabled to run a more profitable business by way of hiring and retaining better employees. For more information: https://dibtalentpipeline.com/

If you are interested in joining the New England Talent Pipeline Project please contact Bo Brewer, New England Flag Lead by email, cell, or you can apply through: https://dibtalentpipeline.com/