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GRCC WORKFORCE WEDNESDAY: Apprenticeship Program Helps Student Acquire an Education and a Career

GRCC Workforce Training programs provide in-demand skills leading to rewarding careers. We are introducing students who are heading down an educational pathway and changing their lives by earning occupational certificates. In the summer of 2018, Wrindy Hauser decided to move south from the Upper Peninsula. “I moved to the big city for better job opportunities […]

Autocam Medical Announces Organizational Changes

GRAND RAPIDS, MI—(February 15, 2022)—Autocam Medical announced Tuesday that after an outstanding 32-year career, Tom O’Mara, Executive Vice President, has notified the company of his intent to retire at the end of the 2022 calendar year. Although Mr. O’Mara will be slowly relinquishing full-time responsibilities, he will remain in an advisory role with the company […]

INDUSTRY WEEK: Autocam Medical’s Apprenticeship Program Gives Students a Job and Pays 100% of Their College Tuition

Autocam Medical looked into the future, back in 2016, and saw there was a big problem it would need to face. “If we didn’t start working on our talent pipeline, we were going to be in trouble,” says John Kennedy, IV, General Manager of Autocam Medical, a contract manufacturer of precision, surgical and medical components […]

MIDWEST MANUFACTURING NEWS: Autocam Medical’s Apprenticeship Program Provides Students With the Best of Both Worlds

Autocam Medical, a global contract manufacturer of precision surgical and medical components and devices, presented 11 students with certificates of completion for their CNC Machinist Apprentice Program during a ceremony at the AMP Lab at Western Michigan University in Grand Rapids. The event, recognizing the company’s fourth class of graduates, was kicked off with a […]

MANUFACTURING NEWS: Autocam Medical Apprentice Program Aims To Ease CNC Machinist Shortage

Autocam Medical, a global contract manufacturer of precision surgical and medical components and devices, presented 11 students with certificates of completion for their CNC Machinist Apprentice Program during a ceremony at the AMP Lab at Western Michigan University in Grand Rapids. The event, recognizing the company’s fourth class of graduates, was kicked off with a […]