Apprenticeship 2000

Today's high-tech products require manufacturing companies to have well trained and highly skilled employees. The Apprenticeship 2000 program is a 4-year technical training apprenticeship program that can train you for exciting career opportunities!

Our apprentices invest 8,000 hours in training which includes 1,800 hours of classroom work. In addition to earning an associates degree in Manufacturing Technology and a journeyman’s certification from the North Carolina Department of Labor, apprentices are guaranteed jobs after graduation.

Each year, Apprenticeship 2000 recruits from 27 high schools in six surrounding counties and from the existing workforce of the participating companies. Apprenticeship 2000 is now training its 11th group of apprentices. The program currently has a total of 45 apprentices participating among the five companies.