A Holistic Approach to Workforce Innovation

Presented by:Leslie Cantu, TTTX Vice President, Administration; TXFAME President

Pooja Tripathi, Bexar County Workforce Development Manager

@txfame @tx_fame @txfame www.TXFAME.com

Overview

• Introduce TXFAME

• Long-,mid-,short-term workforce

strategies

• Skills assessments

• Collaborative partnership building

History

2016

•5 founding companies

•Established Board

2017

• Launched AMT Expanded Program

•Piloted Accelerated Program

2018

•Recruit Caterpillar & Kautex Textron

•Host National Conference

2019

•Recruit Metalsa, CHG

• First TXFAME AMT program class graduates

•Accelerated program under expansion

Long – Term Strategy

• Join forces with middle and high school programs

• Alamo Academies

• CAST STEM

• CORE4STEM

• PTECH

• Job shadow days

• High school summer internships

• Educator externships

• FIRST Robotics and STEM mentoring

Mid – Term Strategy

• Maximize AMT Program

• Increase # of company sponsorships

• Increase college capacity

• Develop backyard recruitment strategy to

connect companies with area high schools

• Utilizing more company reps and female

AMTs for targeted recruitment

Moving Beyond the AMT Program

• Only meeting ~33% TX FAME demand

• Unemployment under 3%

• Need for innovative recruitment and

training options

• 2 years is a long commitment for

companies and recruits

Short Term Strategy

• How do we incorporate these individuals who may not have experience in

manufacturing but have the aptitude and interest to be in the career field?

• Pilot an accelerated program

• Work with Bexar County Judicial Services and Veterans Service Office as

referral streams

• Providing TX FAME companies an option to upskill incumbents

Technical Assessment

• Use hands-on mechanical assessment

• Standardized assessment for incumbents

and non-incumbents

• Outcomes exceeded expectations!

Accelerated 8-weekTraining

• Chose 20 individuals who scored average on the assessment• Showed some mechanical skill as well as room for

improvement through training

• Non-incumbents were set up with a success coach for wraparound services and experiential learning opportunities with TX FAME companies and other manufacturers

• Stand-out non-incumbent success story: re-entry

Outcomes

• Wraparound services are critical for non-incumbents’ success

• Engaging companies to offer experiential learning opportunities

was more difficult than we anticipated

• Special hiring initiative

• Combined recruitment efforts to give individuals both options

• Scaling the accelerated with strong wraparound services

component

• Building out experiential learning opportunities

Diversify Recruitment Streams and Training Options

Industry ROI

• Maintenance department split

• Decreased turnover rates

• Retention

• Productivity increase

• Equipment downtime decrease

• Mean time between failure

• Efficiency. Productivity. Profitability.

Long Downtime Occurrences

MTTR-Monthly

Monthly MTBF Trend

Average Daily Downtime

TTTX Welding Division Total Efficiency

1:1 (1600TR) GSPH

2:1 (2500TR) GSPH

2:1 (2500TR) GSPH

Partnerships

• Industry partners

• San Antonio Manufacturers Association

• Bexar County

• Goodwill

• WSA

• City of San Antonio

• Alamo Colleges District, & St. Philip’s College

• SA Works

• K-12 system

Questions/Answers

@txfame @tx_fame @txfame www.TXFAME.com

Thank you!

A Holistic Approach to Workforce Innovation

Presented by:Leslie Cantu, TTTX Vice President, Administration; TXFAME President

Pooja Tripathi, Bexar County Workforce Development Manager

@txfame @tx_fame @txfame www.TXFAME.com