Lincoln Manufacturing Council (LMC)

LMC Application form & Brochure for Participants

The Lincoln Manufacturing Council's Manufacturing Tech program includes 15 Lincoln manufacturers that are hiring in our community. We are looking for people that don’t have experience in manufacturing and are willing to learn more!

The 6-week class includes information about measurement, reading work orders, manufacturing workplace protocols and more! The final class will be a career fair giving students an opportunity to interview and be considered for a position. 

Manufacturers include:

• Agility Fuel Systems
• Bison
• ContinentalContitech
• Deeter Foundry
• General Dynamics
• InExhaust
• Kawasaki
• LI-COR
• Lincoln Industries
• Lincoln Machine
• Mapes
• Molex
• Nature's Variety
• Teledyne Isco
• TMCO

Benefits to the class include:

• $250 stipend upon program completion + application to at least one manufacturing job in the Lincoln area 
• Meet with manufacturers during class to learn more
• Job shadow with a selected manufacturer
• Childcare provided by Lincoln Literacy at Lincoln High
• Meals for the class and children
• Manufacturing Tech Certificate upon completion 

The class is free for accepted students. Students must attend all sessions to earn the certificate and stipend. Basic English skills are required to understand the instruction and complete the tasks. A total of 12-15 students will be accepted. There will be future sessions of the class, and anyone not selected for this class will be considered for the next class. 

EmployLNK Business Meeting

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Case Manager Tours

• The video below highlights EmployLNK's partnership with Bryan Health and the Nebraska Department of Labor to connect job seekers to careers.

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• The Family Literacy program teaches immigrant/refugee parents English after school while their children participate in Community Learning Center enrichment activities. 

MyLink

• MyLink provides information about nonprofit, city, state and federal services in Lincoln as well as 13 other counties across Nebraska.
• With the free app on Android or Apple, users can search by need such as ‘diapers’ or organization ‘Red Cross;’ view a calendar of free food and medical clinics; the ability to map services nearby; and scroll services by subject (Legal, Veteran’s Services, Employment, and more). 
• The app works offline once downloaded and is available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic and Somali.
• Since 2018, the app has over 10,000 downloads and averages 1,700 monthly users.
• The MyLink website provides the same information as the app and is available at www.mylnk.app.

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CareerLadder is Lincoln’s effort to reconnect Lincoln’s New Americans to their education and profession. For many New Americans, their college degree, certification and licensure are not recognized in the United States. Thanks to funding from Google.org and expertise from World Education Services (WES), Lincoln’s New Americans Task Force created career pathway documents and funded case management positions to assist people to return to their careers in engineering, education, healthcare, accounting and law. 

For more information or to begin the process, please visit https://careerladderne.org/.

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