First BGE Workforce Collaborative Class Graduates

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Cheers, tears, applause and hugs marked the archetypal graduation ceremonial of BGE’s Workforce Collaborative program.

This program, brought to beingness with Civic Works in Baltimore City, provided 13 participants the accidental to larn indispensable skills and what it takes to enactment connected BGE’s infrastructure. The people besides met with imaginable employers – Ferguson Trenching, NPL and Stella May Contracting.

Already, 12 of the graduates person been offered full-time jobs.

Richard Steward spoke from the bosom arsenic helium represented the class. “I privation to convey Civic Works, BGE and the contracting partners for giving america a shot. This is thing we truly needed, not conscionable for ourselves, but besides due to the fact that we tin beryllium a relation exemplary for our family, the radical who look up to us, and radical that are successful our corner. You’re giving america the chance, and we got our sleeves rolled up. You helped america and guided america connected each the close levels and I’m rather definite that the 13 of america aren’t going to fto you down.”

The 2nd Workforce Collaborative people begins successful aboriginal December and aboriginal classes volition hap connected a rolling basis. To larn much astir joining, sojourn the Civic Works’ Center for Sustainable Careers website oregon telephone 410-929-6120.

“Sometimes the word ‘trailblazers’ is overused, but it’s not an overstatement to accidental this people is made of trailblazers. Everyone who started the programme has completed it and has developed a instauration for a long-lasting vocation successful inferior infrastructure and that is thing to beryllium arrogant of. We are honored to beryllium a portion of this program, which creates specified large pathways to a semipermanent meaningful vocation successful a precise important industry,” said Maryland State Delegate and Civic Works enforcement manager Dana Stein.

Civic Works recruits and screens participants and administers the program. BGE serves arsenic the conduit betwixt its web of state and electrical contractors and Civic Works; BGE besides funds the programme and ensures graduates conscionable the standards indispensable to enactment connected its system. The Workforce Collaborative volition grow successful 2020 to see the Power 52 Foundation and is portion of BGE’s Smart Energy Workforce Development Program, which works to make divers endowment pipelines typical of BGE’s full work area.