AIDT News

AIDT Newsletter
February 5, 2009

Watch On The Job to learn how, when and where to get a career

View On The Job at 12:30 p.m. each Sunday on Alabama Public Television channels throughout the state. On The Job is also available each Tuesday at 8 p.m. on digital Weather Plus 12.2 channels in Montgomery on Charter channel 136 and Knology channel 121, Brighthouse channel 213 in Wetumpka and Greenville, and Brighthouse channel 228 in Eufaula.

On Sunday, Feb. 8 and Tuesday, Feb. 10, On The Job visits U.S. Helicopter in Ozark to learn skills and training needed to join one of Alabama's leading industry producers. On The Job also gets details about Maintenance Technology training at Wallace Community College-Selma needed to stay ahead in that dynamic career field.

On Sunday, Feb. 15, and Tuesday, Feb. 17, On The Job learns a unique trade and technical skill program at Lawson State Community College Automotive Technology program in Birmingham that can quickly advance job placement opportunities. The program specializes in a unique automotive curriculum called the "Toyota T-10 Program," and quickly prepares students for jobs in the automotive industry. On The Job also goes behind the scenes at Shelton State Community College's Health and Wellness program in Tuscaloosa to learn about training and education needed to become a personal trainer or fitness club operator.

View previous On The Job shows online at www.onthejobtv.org
The latest online episode shows students at Hoover High School learning scientific methods and techniques to investigate crime. Hoover High is the leading state-of-the-art K-12 forensic science program in the southeast. On The Job also shows UAB graduate forensics education needed to pursue a forensics career.

helps Alabama employers grow and survive

Created in 1971, AIDT was designed to enhance existence and growth of Alabama's economic development through support for expansion of existing employers and establishment of new employers coming into Alabama. AIDT's expanded services help additional employers grow, as well as survive the current economic downturn.

Employers expanding services and sustaining current economy issues may acquire a new AIDT program for assistance with recruitment and training of potential and existing employees.

Our new service, AIDT+Extra, assists employers with development of:

Employee recruiting ads
Comprehensive and illustrated trainee manuals and workbooks
Multimedia trainer instructor guides and presentation aids
Trainer preparation manuals
Performance assessment training
Principles of daily success
Videographic company information for trainees

Additional AIDT services, such as leadership development, industrial safety assessment, industrial maintenance technician assessment and process improvement, also help Alabama employers and employees survive and grow.

Employers benefit from AIDT services for recruitment, assessment and training of job seekers as well as training to help employers enhance existing employees. AIDT services are provided at no charge to employers, employees or job seekers because of the investment of taxpayers that provides funding for AIDT through the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education.

By providing funding for AIDT, taxpayers benefit from the existence and growth of businesses in Alabama through contribution businesses make to the state in general and through the careers businesses provide for taxpayers.

AIDT's Leadership Skills focus on basic skills supervisors need to be effective. Leadership Skills I major topics include roles and responsibilities, communication, motivation, and teamwork. Leadership Skills II builds on concepts discussed in Leadership Skills I program, including personality assessment, conflict management and ethics.

AIDT Industrial Safety Assessment conducts comprehensive programs through the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Outreach Training Program. AIDT offers courses in construction and general industry safety and health standards. Employees receive OSHA-issued cards following completion of each program.

Our industrial safety assessments include opening and closing conferences with management, full facility walkthroughs, records review, employee interviews, and a detailed written report of findings and recommendations referenced to the applicable OSHA standard. We provide information and resources needed to meet OSHA training requirements.

AIDT Industrial Maintenance Technician Assessment Program puts candidates through written and practical tests to give employers information needed to choose qualified employees. Candidates' contact information, and we handle the rest. AIDT schedules, administers, and scores the assessments. Depending on your candidate's availability, we have the final report in your hands in as little as one week. The assessment methodology is refined and adjusted to stay current with technology, and candidates are only assessed on the skills required by employers to address unique maintenance requirements.

AIDT Process Improvement Assessment is designed to continuously improve company processes. It is based on lean principles and utilizes improvement techniques to provide an independent third-party review of each company's business processes related to lean manufacturing.
When automotive supplier ArvinMeritor Body Systems came into Alabama, in 2004, AIDT provided recruitment and training services to fill 98 jobs.

"AIDT has been a valuable resource to ArvinMeritor since the time that ArvinMeritor decided to locate into Montgomery,"said Ed Kershaw, ArvinMeritor Body Systems Human Resources Manager. "I can remember the earlier days when I worked with AIDT team members in the start-up of our two operations and I can honestly say that since that time, there has been no decline in the quality of work that AIDT has delivered us."

ArvinMeritor was the first to receive AIDT+Extra services in 2008.

"On behalf of ArvinMeritor's Montgomery operations, I wish to express my thanks for the great job that your team members did in creating and developing a pre-employment training program for this site," said Kershaw. "The quality of the video, workbook and leaders guide was outstanding. The information contained in this material will be a great resource in orientating our potential new employees to ArvinMeritor and the operations of the Montgomery facility. I look forward to using this material in our pre-employment training classes for many years to come."

Career options available with Alabama businesses

Maritime welding training also available

Training and employment is open with six employers in six counties and with AIDT-Maritime Welding Training in Mobile. Opportunities available or updated this week are listed below.

In addition to serving the employers noted in the map and listed below, AIDT is continuing services with 89 employers in 32 Alabama counties.

Click the map above or links below to get details about job opportunities now available. Applications for AIDT training and information about jobs that do not require our training are available through these links.

The links also provide information to contact Alabama Career Centers and other locations needed to apply for training or employment. Detailed Career Center information, including addresses and telephone numbers, is available here.

For information about employment opportunities available with AIDT, click AIDT Jobs link or visit our website online.

Career Opportunities

Calhoun County-Oxford
Kronospan LLC: Multi-craft Maintenance Technician, Electrician

Chambers County-Cusseta
Daeki America, Inc.: Quality Control, Material Handling, Production, Assembly Operators, Maintenance

Colbert County-Cherokee
National Alabama Corp: Welding, Fabrication, Finishing, Painting, Equipment Operations Team Members
National Alabama Corp:Welding Team Member

Mobile County-Calvert
ThyssenKrupp Steel & Stainless USA LLC: Maintenance
ThyssenKrupp Steel & Stainless USA LLC: Operators

Mobile County-Mobile
AIDT-Maritime Welding Training

Pike County-Troy
Sikorsky Aircraft Co.: Aircraft Manufacturing/Support Technicians

Alabama's number-one business incentive provides recruitment, assessment, and training for employers creating jobs in Alabama. As Alabama's economy evolves, AIDT services continuously adapt to meet the needs of aerospace, automotive, chemical processing and bio-technology manufacturers, as well as the wide range of traditional industrial groups such as food processing, distribution/warehousing, technical services, and others.

A close working relationship with each client results in development of consistently effective processes for recruitment, selection and training of skilled and motivated employees. AIDT also provides leadership development, industrial maintenance assessment, safety assistance, process improvement assessment, and other services.

AIDT's mission for new and expanding employers creating jobs in Alabama is to recruit and train personnel to provide quality workforce development and to expand citizens' opportunities through the jobs that are created. AIDT has provided thousands of skilled, motivated employees to Alabama indu.stries since 1971. It became the first state workforce training entity in the world to earn international ISO 9001:2000 certification for its quality management system and has been consistently ranked one of the top state workforce training agencies in the United States.