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 CNY Works
CNY Works coordinates
local workforce activities for employers and job seekers. They
develop educational and training programs for incumbent workers,
and youth and adult job seekers who are in need of activities to
enhance their employment opportunities.
NYS Empire State Development Corporation
The NYS
Empire State Development Corporation may offer training support
as part of a package of incentives that is offered to a new or
expanding company.
Workforce Training Assistance Provides:
- Up to half the cost of the training project
- Full or partial reimbursement for projects creating more than
300 jobs, or creating 100 jobs and retaining 300 jobs
- Training in new technologies, new skills or new work processes
- On the job or classroom settings
Onondaga Community
College
Onondaga Community
College (OCC) operates an Applied Technology Center that
is designed to address the technical training requirements of
local companies, including call centers. The Center can design
and implement training programs that will accomplish a company's
specific requirements.
The Lean Manufacturing Institute
The Lean Manufacturing Institute (LMI) is one example of a training
program designed to meet specific business commuity needs. The
LMI works with local business, labor, government, and academic
leaders to help companies work smarter and effectivly compete in
the global marketplace.
Lean Manufacturing, a process implemented by such world leaders
as Welch-Allyn and Daimler-Chrysler, is based upon the Deming principle
of eliminating waste and driving out extraneous costs in manufacturing
process. "The concept of lean manufacturing has grown into
'a near religion,' according to the Detroit Free Press.
Proposed by County Executive Nicholas J. Pirro and unanimously
approved by the legislature under the co-sponsorship of committee
chairs James Corbett and Kathleen Rapp, $1.5 million was granted
to OCC to establish the Lean Manufacturing Institute. "With
it's long history of training the workforce of Onondaga County
placing the institute at OCC was a natural fit. This is a commitment
to keep manufacturing strong in Central New York ," said County
Executive Pirro. The LMI partners local manufacturers, Onondaga
County, State government, and academia."We are very pleased
that this partnership, which has such potential for the economy
of Central New York, has borne such an exciting and promising project," said
Debbie L. Sydow, Ph.D., OCC president. "It is evidence of
our local commitment to the economic development of the region."
The Institute will educate students and employees through training
and/or retraining in the principles and practices of lean manufacturing
on state of the art equipment. The LMI will also provide regional
businesses, industries and professional associations a venue for
testing new equipment, demonstrating new techniques, studying new
technology transfer options, and will offer a show place for conducting
training seminars and conferences.
View "Get Lean",
a promotional video with details
about the LMI:
 Windows
Media (12.8MB)
 QuickTime (9.1MB)
Onondaga County Industrial Development
Agency
The Onondaga County Industrial Development
Agency (OCIDA) offers an Employee Productivity Program that
provides matching grants up to $12,500 for production and first
line supervisory personnel. Utilizing your in-house staff, local
vocational training agencies or educational institutions such
as OCC, we will support employer-identified skill and productivity
training for new industry or expansion in the County as a means
of making employees competitive and retaining jobs. The funds
can be used in conjunction with services or funding provided
by CNY Works or Empire State.
Download a copy of the  Employee Productivity Program application (41K) or request an EPP
application in MS Word format.
Support is available through CNY
Works and the NYS
Department of Labor to
provide programs for the recruiting, testing and selection of
employees.
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