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NCDOT to Offer Free Training for Skilled Transportation Workers

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RALEIGH –  The N.C. Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Office of Civil Rights has started sponsoring new Highway Construction Trade Academies (HCTA) around the state.

The academies aim to address the growing need for skilled labor to help safely build and maintain our state’s roads and bridges.

“Our goal is to target women, minorities and other disadvantaged populations, including veterans, the disabled, and residents of our poorer Tier 1 counties where there’s a need for such training and jobs,” said Vanessa Powell, who administers the program for NCDOT’s Office of Civil Rights. “The course combines a mixture of safe classroom, virtual, hands-on, and work-based learning formats.”

The HCTA program is a minimum four-week, full-time training course that initially will be hosted by community-based organizations statewide. The program is being funded by the Federal Highway Administration. Participants will be provided training on specific jobs as well as how to conduct job searches. They will also receive supportive services such as needed emergency short-term housing, daycare, and transportation assistance.

The first two programs are being hosted at Passage Home in Southeast Raleigh and the Opportunities Industrialization Center in Rocky Mount. Three additional academies will be coming online shortly in James City, Fayetteville, Charlotte, and Greenville. The class includes basic construction math, written and interpersonal skills, the OSHA-10 certification, and other more advanced skills such as flagger certification.

Plans call for five more HCTAs in Wilmington, Robeson County, the Triad, Asheville, and Morganton. Each will be longer eight-week programs. As with all such HCTAs, the two Western North Carolina sites will be located in a major highway construction project area, namely I-26 in that instance.

It is projected that a workforce shortage of 60 percent or 500,000 skilled highway construction workers will exist over the next decade across the United States. The trend for North Carolina is similar, partly due to retirements of an aging industry labor force. A non-traditional labor supply is part of the answer for this essential sector.

Applications for the program will be available at each NCDOT site as they continue to open around the state.

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