Workforce Development Outreach: Creating Awareness in our Communities 

As creating workforce awareness continues to become a larger part of our industry’s recruiting efforts, OCA wants our members to know that your work to engage the next generation is making a difference around the state. 

We recently asked the membership to share individual outreach actions they are taking to make young people aware of career opportunities in our industry. After reviewing the many emails submitted, it was clear that collectively we are making a huge reach around the state when it comes to promoting heavy highway careers. 

Here is one of the actions shared, with others to be included in future e-newsletters along with being published in the bi-monthly OC magazine. 

Company: The Beaver Excavating Company 
Event: Girl Up 
Action to create awareness: Girl Up is an event sponsored by the United Way and local businesses to bring awareness of career opportunities to 7th and 8th Grade girls in the Canton and surrounding School Districts. Many of these girls have never had exposure to the world of construction and the careers that they could consider. Beaver is very involved in this program and delivers a message that you could consider the trades as an occupation as well as the more traditional careers within the construction industry. Beaver helps educate young women that there are high paying jobs out there and a college education is not necessarily required to land one! Beaver's part of the program is presented by all female employees including those in the role of: Vice President, Project Manager, Administrative Assistant, Safety Specialist, Environmental Engineer, Operating Engineer, Apprenticeship Training Coordinator, Carpenter, Laborer, Diesel Mechanic and EEO Officer. Sustainability of the individuals that work in our industry is our focus of these events. 

Women from Beaver Excavating Company participate in the Canton-area’s Girl Up program to bring awareness of career opportunities to middle school students.

ODOT & InfoTech seek input on Prompt Pay application 

Info Tech is working with Ohio Department of Transportation to better understand issues related to subcontractor payment tracking and reporting. It is very short and should only take a few minutes to complete. OCA requests that you have your person in charge of subcontractor payments visit the link below and complete the survey, which may help streamline the process down the road. Thank you for your cooperation!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WMZBPMJ 

Ohio EPA Accepting Grant Applications for Diesel Mitigation Trust Fund Monies