Littleton School Partners with Businesses for Workforce Training
As North Country employers continue their search to fill jobs with skilled employees, Above The Notch Community School and two local manufacturing companies have joined forces to launch a new workforce training program based at Littleton High School.
Debuting this semester at ATNCS, the year-old adult education program at LHS, is a Computer Numerical Control machine manufacturing course taught on two CNC machines, a mill and a lathe, that LHS received through a $170,000 jobs training grant through the N.H. Community Development Finance Authority and installed at the school in 2016.
"It's based on a need," Rachelle Cox, ATNCS coordinator, said Monday. “This is a pilot program to get people into the workforce with the skills they will need."
The program partners with two companies:
Burndy is a manufacturer of tools, fittings and connectors for electrical utilities, repair and maintenance companies, residential and commercial contractors, and telecommunications firms.
Rotobec USA is a designer and manufacturer of heavy handling equipment for the logging, scrap, waste-handling and other industries.
The class - whose subjects include machine safety, basic machining vocabulary, learning lot control and work orders, basic machine tool math, blueprint reading, quality control, an understanding of tooling, and workplace soft skills such as communication - is being taught by Matt Horne, a trainer picked up by Rotobec who is now an official instructor with ATNCS.
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Rachelle S. Cox
Grant Writer
Personalized Education Coordinator
Above the Notch Community School
159 Oak Hill Ave.
Littleton, NH 03561
603-444-5186 ext.3316
rcox@littletonschools.org