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Wyoming Contractors Association McMurry Training Center

The McMurry Training Center, operated by the Wyoming Contractor's Association (WCA), offers training for businesses and individuals in the heavy industrial trades (Construction, Energy, Transportation, Safety). The McMurry Training Center, established in 2001 offers vocational training programs often made possible for individuals through federal grants. The training center is a division of the Wyoming Contractor’s Association (WCA) and was created from private membership and founding member contributions to teach construction skills. Located on 76 acres with a 1.1 mile off road CDL-A driver training course, a training drilling rig construction simulation training site and 22,000 square foot classroom building, the center is a site for industry-driven training in a short term, high intensity format for contractors and individuals to develop the skill sets of their employees.
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The McMurry Training Center
The McMurry Training Center

Wyoming Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

The Wyoming Electrical JATC is an electrical apprenticeship training program consisting of a minimum of 8000 hours of on the job training as well as four years of electrical classroom curriculum. The JATC is registered with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training and meets all the requirements set by the state of Wyoming to allow our apprentices to test for their state Journeyman’s license at the completion of the program.
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Training Assistance
Below is the Training Assistance available in Natrona County Wyoming.
workforce training grants
The Workforce Development Training Fund (WDTF)
assists new and existing industries in the state with the training
needs of newly hired or current employees. The major grants
provided through the WDTF are:

Business Training Grants for Existing Positions - Provide
up to $2,000 per trainee per fiscal year for established Wyoming
businesses with existing employees who need a skill upgrade or
retraining in their current occupation.

Business Training Grants for New Positions - This program
assists growing Wyoming businesses by deferring much of their
training costs during the expansion phase and affords new businesses
to the State a successful start-up by deferring much of the business’
training costs. Grants provide between $1,000 and a maximum
of $4,000 per trainee per fiscal year, depending on the
employee’s full-time status and wage amount.

Pre-Hire Economic Development Grant - Program is designed to
train skilled workers in a particular business or industry. Funds are
allocated to a partner group consisting of four contributing entities:

• A training provider who can deliver the training, certificate or
skills the business requires;

• A business, group of businesses, or an industry with a
need for workers;

• The local or regional Economic Development entity, that will
work within the local or regional economic network to
provide assistance; and

• The local DWS Workforce Center, which will assist in the
recruitment of potential skilled workers, along with
placement of trained participants.
human resources consulting
The Wyoming Business Council
provides ongoing advanced Human Resource consulting to
Wyoming businesses by assisting companies in reducing turnover,
creating better and more meaningful jobs, increasing wages
and benefits and growing career opportunities.
 

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