{"id":309,"date":"2024-11-27T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/?p=309"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:53:02","slug":"training-maines-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/features\/training-maines-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Maine\u2019s Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\r\n.hightlight-first p:first-child:first-letter {\r\ncolor: #faa519;\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"hightlight-first\">\n<p>Over the summer, Maine Maritime Academy hosted the inaugural Naval Shipyard Institute workforce development training program. The Naval Shipyard Institute, funded by the Navy, is an intensive skills training program taking place on the campuses of Maine Maritime Academy and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard over the course of 14 weeks. During the immersive program, students learn trade skills including structural welding, machining, and marine electrical. Following the successful completion of the program, students are eligible for employment at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard repairing, maintaining, and overhauling nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Navy\u2019s Submarine Industrial Base Directorate expressed the intent to hire approximately 140,000 new employees in the skilled trades over the next 10 years to bolster its workforce to build and sustain the fleet. In an effort to build the capacity of the Submarine Industrial Base, the Navy requested $3.9 billion in federal funding for FY25. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also identified additional funding for the Submarine Industrial Base as the top unfunded priority for FY25.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_316\" style=\"width: 821px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"noborder wp-image-316 size-full\" src=\"\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-collage.jpg\" alt=\"PNSI summer program pictures\" width=\"811\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-collage.jpg 811w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-collage-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-collage-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students working; The &#8220;crew&#8221;; Press event<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ORBIS, Inc., a veteran-owned engineering solutions company that provides services for the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense, managed the Naval Shipyard Institute program in collaboration with the Academy. MMA faculty customized their courses to align with the Navy\u2019s workforce needs. ORBIS\u2019s Naval Shipyard Institute Director Chris Oelschlegel \u201905 indicated that \u201cMaine Maritime Academy has the ideal combination of high-quality training facilities and first-rate instructors for the Naval Shipyard Institute program to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maine Maritime Academy Interim President Craig Johnson said, \u201cThe Academy\u2019s expertise in providing training in the skilled trades in addition to world-class lab facilities makes the collaboration with ORBIS a natural fit. We hope this is just the beginning of the Academy helping to contribute to the Navy\u2019s mission of bolstering qualified, skilled labor for the Submarine and Maritime Industrial Base. Submarines play a crucial role in our nation\u2019s defense and helping to train skilled workers for their maintenance is an important objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_315\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"noborder wp-image-315 size-full\" src=\"\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-pic.jpg\" alt=\"student in shop\" width=\"860\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-pic.jpg 860w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-pic-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-pic-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/11\/pnsi-pic-768x1095.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hands on work at its finest.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Trainees, ranging in age from 18 to 60, were provided room and board while participating in the Naval Shipyard Institute program. After successfully completing six weeks of training on the Maine Maritime Academy campus, students receive six hours of academic credit. According to welding student Lyndsey Levasseur, \u201cThis program is a fantastic opportunity to pursue a career doing something I enjoy while also contributing to my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to welding student Lyndsey Levasseur, \u201cThis program is a fantastic opportunity to pursue a career doing something I enjoy while also contributing to my country.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On August 7, 2024, Maine Maritime Academy and ORBIS, Inc. hosted a showcase event on campus highlighting the progress of the Naval Shipyard Institute training program, offering a tour of the training cohorts, and allowing interaction with MMA Leadership and faculty. Representatives from the offices of Governor Mills, Senator Collins, Senator King, as well as officials from the U.S. Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, MMA\u2019s Board of Trustees, and the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Labor were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy hopes to continue the partnership with the Navy to continue to develop the Submarine Industrial Base workforce in 2025 and beyond.<span class=\"articleEnd\">\u2588<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer, Maine Maritime Academy hosted the inaugural Naval Shipyard Institute workforce development training program. The Naval Shipyard Institute, funded by the Navy, is an intensive skills training program taking place on the campuses of Maine Maritime Academy and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard over the course of 14 weeks. During the immersive program, students learn trade skills including structural welding, machining, and marine electrical. Following the successful completion of the program, students are eligible for employment at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard repairing, maintaining, and overhauling nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy\u2019s Submarine Industrial Base Directorate expressed the intent to hire approximately 140,000 new employees in the skilled trades over the next 10 years to bolster its workforce to build and sustain the fleet. In an effort to build the capacity of the Submarine Industrial Base, the Navy requested $3.9 billion in federal funding for FY25. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also identified additional funding for the Submarine Industrial Base as the top unfunded priority for FY25.<\/p>\n<p>ORBIS, Inc., a veteran-owned engineering solutions company that provides services for the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense, managed the Naval Shipyard Institute program in collaboration with the Academy. MMA faculty customized their courses to align with the Navy\u2019s workforce needs. ORBIS\u2019s Naval Shipyard Institute Director Chris Oelschlegel \u201905 indicated that \u201cMaine Maritime Academy has the ideal combination of high-quality training facilities and first-rate instructors for the Naval Shipyard Institute program to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maine Maritime Academy Interim President Craig Johnson said, \u201cThe Academy\u2019s expertise in providing training in the skilled trades in addition to world-class lab facilities makes the collaboration with ORBIS a natural fit.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/features\/training-maines-workforce\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue2-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}