Success Profiles

Success ProfilesHelping to create stronger Oregon companies

PCC’s Customized & Workplace Training (CWT) programs provide innovative, effective training and educational services to front line workers and their supervisors. For more than 20 years, CWT has pioneered workforce development by partnering with business, industry, and government at the local, national, and international levels.

Here are just a few of the ways we’re helping to train our workforce and build stronger businesses:

Precision Wire Components (PWC)

With a new 40,000 square-foot plant, including class 100,000 clean room operations, PWC delivers what medical device manufacturers demand most: short lead times, technical accuracy, and proactive customer service. Read more »»

Better Management

Better Management serves as an informational Web portal that promotes upcoming conferences, presentations and projects through expert writing services. Read more »»

Plastimayd

As a manufacturer of high-quality pool liners, Plastimayd’s level of customer service needs to be top-notch. Read more »»

Harry’s Fresh Foods

A fresh food manufacturer, Harry’s Fresh Foods supplies soups, sauces, gravies and desserts to both retail and wholesale clients in 33 states as well as Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Taiwan. Read more »»

Integrated Device Technology (IDT)

IDT’s position as a global leader in delivering semiconductor solutions places an even greater premium on cultivating current employees for future leadership positions. Read more »»

The Nursery Training Consortium (NTC)

CWT was approached by representatives of Washington County’s agricultural nurseries in 1996 to help create a nursery training consortium (NTC) to design and deliver customized training for the industry’s Hispanic frontline workers. Read more »»

Providence Medical Center (PMC)

CWT and Providence initiated a pilot project in 1998 that has developed into an on-going program that offered three levels of English as a Second Language (ESL) training specifically customized for PPMC’s Environmental and Food Services staff. Read more »»

Forest Grove Education and Training Consortium (FGTEC)

The Forest Grove Economic Development Partnership conducted a needs assessment of major local employers that identified workforce development as the key to maintaining competitiveness and a strong local economy. Read more »»

ANI Welded Tube (now LTV)

CWT designed and delivered "Metals College" to support ANI Welded Tube’s start-up. In partnership with the Portland Development Commission, the program delivered a fully trained frontline workforce before the start-up plant was operational. Read more »»

Consolidated Metals Co.

The Portland Development Commission contracted with CWT to provide customized training for Consolidated Metals Company’s (ConMet) Rivergate plant to help entry-level foundry workers on a career pathway to become Computer-Numeric Controlled (CNC) Machine Operators. Read more »»

Tektronix

Recognizing a need to improve non-native English Speaking (NNES) employees’ literacy skills, Tektronix contracted with CWT to develop and deliver a workplace-based literacy assessment tool to more than 80 NNES frontline workers. Read more »»

Intel International

In order to improve its ability to deliver workplace-based English as a Second Language (ESL) training to its workforce worldwide, Intel Training Managers in the U.S., Costa Rica, Malaysia, China, the Philippines, and Israel selected CWT after conducting a worldwide competitive bidding process. Read more »»

Portland Community College

PCC wanted to streamline its enrollment process to allow new students to have a seamless transition from their initial request for information to their successful completion of the second week in class. Read more »»

ESCO Corp

To stay competitive in the marketplace, ESCO Corporation and Oregon Cutting Systems knew they needed to implement lean manufacturing principles in the workplace at every level. Read more »»

Latitudes

This project provided English as a Second Language (ESL) training and support before implementing Lean events to prepare Latitudes’ non-native English speaking (NNES) employees to participate in company-wide Lean training and activities along with native English speaking employees. Read more »»

Siltronic

CWT entered into a partnership with the Portland Development Commission, Portland Public Schools, and Siltronic in 1995 to design and deliver a New Employee Training program for Siltronic as it commissioned a new fabrication unit. Read more »»

YoCream

At YoCream International, quality is a way of life. Read more »»

Gunderson

A training program set to serve a Portland manufacturing firm is turning career opportunists into welders thanks to a partnership between PCC, the firm, and a Portland workforce developer. Read more »»

Avamere Health Services

The number of older Americans will double in the next 30 years, dramatically increasing the demand for long-term care. Read more »

If you’d like to achieve the same results for your organization, contact us!