Advanced Manufacturing Pre-Apprenticeship Training!

Job description:

Free Advanced Manufacturing Pre-Apprenticeship Training! Limited seats available!

Build a long-term, high-wage career in advanced manufacturing.

Join a unique earn-and-learn program that includes paid pre-apprenticeships, college credit, and direct connection to Minnesota's leading advanced manufacturing employers.

Training Stages

• Stage 1: Discovery (In Person and Virtual): Jump into career exploration and job readiness training. Learn about advanced manufacturing and clean rooms. Take tours and meet employers, Build customer service, and digital skills.
• Stage 2: Earn & Learn Pre-Apprenticeship (In Person):
• Get paid to work, learn, and train at an advanced manufacturing company. Employee benefits include health insurance, regular breaks and paid time off.
• Stage 3: Credentials (In Person): Complete program and coursework. Opportunity to move into a paid Technician Apprenticeship Program with an employer partner.

Training Benefits

• Family-Sustaining Wages: Build towards a Technician career track with average industry starting wage $25/hr.
• Specialized Career Training: Learn about operations in a clean room, microscope use, wafer handling
• College Credit and Credentials: Coursework at Normandale Community College earning up to 14 credits and the opportunity to test and earn an industry recognized credential.
• Job Readiness: Resume building and interviewing, job coaching, mentoring, and introductions to employer partners Medtronic and Seagate Technology.
• Wraparound Supports: Participants receive access to technology, work clothes, fuel, bus cards, and other resource navigation services.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED
• Solid reading, math, computer, and communication skills
• Available 10-hour days for work/coursework
• Ability to walk/stand for prolonged periods
• Work in a cleanroom environment with gowning attire
• Reliable transportation
• Industry employment subject to criminal background check

Start Date: April 27, 2026

Length: Approximately 12 months, earn-and-learn during the pre-apprenticeship

Training Location: Normandale Community College and local worksite in Bloomington, Plymouth, or Brooklyn Center

Next step: complete and submit an application ASAP (website with application below)

• https://www.hired.org/advanced-manufacturing-pre-apprenticeship

Please contact Chan for more information: Chan.Xiong@hired.org, 651-301-2586

Pay: $19.99 - $20.00 per hour

Work Location: In person