Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing Career Path
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Advanced Manufacturing Industry – Earn Up
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Industry News and Updates
Local company gets new, bigger contract for submarine parts
Local company gets new, bigger contract for submarine parts (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) -- Less than a month after receiving a $16 million contract related to building high frequency sail array sonar windows in Jacksonville, Collins Aerospace Co.'s...
American manufacturing might be hitting a ‘supercycle’ as spending skyrockets
American manufacturing might be hitting a 'supercycle' as spending skyrockets (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) -- Reston, Virginia-based defense and technology firm Leidos Holdings Inc. is spending $31.7 million to build a new manufacturing hub for its...
Saint-Gobain North America expanding Palatka gypsum facility
Saint-Gobain North America expanding Palatka gypsum facility (courtesy of the Jacksonville Daily Record) -- Saint-Gobain North America, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed Interior Products Group, announced plans July 10 to invest $235 million over...
Inside the deal: Why Cosentino picked Jacksonville for its first North American plant
Inside the deal: Why Cosentino picked Jacksonville for its first North American plant (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) -- In a massive complex in Almeria, Spain, the Cosentino Group has been producing stone products for decades, building on the area's...
IKO to build Clay County shingle plant, commit $270M to site
IKO to build Clay County shingle plant, commit $270M to site (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) -- A large Toronto-based roofing company confirmed it's building a 700,000-square-foot campus it hopes to open by 2025. IKO Industries operates 38 large-scale...
‘Confident’ Jax manufacturing firm plans for serious growth
'Confident' Jax manufacturing firm plans for serious growth (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) -- For more than two decades, QuickTie Systems of Jacksonville has been steadily establishing a reputation with regional builders as a company that uses...
Meet Roben Faircloth, Advanced Manufacturing Industry Manager
Roben Faircloth is the Manufacturing sector manager at CareerSource NEFL.
Roben is a native Floridian, born and raised in Fort Myers, Florida. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Organizational Communications. Upon graduation, she taught English in Tokyo, Japan for three years.
Before joining CareerSource, Roben was the Program Manager for the Florida TRADE Grant at Florida State College at Jacksonville working to help students prepare to enter the field of manufacturing and help those employed in manufacturing, improve their skills. Florida State College, CareerSource, and First Coast Manufacturing partnered on this highly successful grant. Prior to working with the TRADE grant, she was an Enrollment Development Coordinator at FSCJ working with area high schools to introduce students to their post-secondary opportunities. She served on advisory boards for many area high schools including Peterson, Englewood, Forrest, and Wolfson.
Contact Roben for information on how your business can benefit from a partnership with CareerSource NEFL.
Interested in an Advanced Manufacturing career and need more information? Contact Roben at rfaircloth@careersourcenefl.com