CAC manufacturing students finding jobs despite Lucid delays
by Jake Kincaid | Casa Grande Dispatch
Above: Lucid Motors plans to manufacture its Lucid Air in Casa Grande, Arizona. (Photo provided by Lucid Motors)
When Lucid Motors initially announced it would build a manufacturing plant in Casa Grande in January of 2017, the electric car startup said it planned to begin manufacturing in 2018 and would employ about 2,000 workers
Central Arizona College President Jackie Elliott emphasized at a Coolidge Economic Development Committee meeting shortly after the announcement that the college needed to get back to the original mission of community colleges: preparing the workforce for local jobs. Specifically, she said that CAC needed to develop a curriculum to meet the needs of the new plant and added that CAC had helped lure Lucid to the area.
That curriculum became the Industrial Maintenance certificate. CAC quickly announced it would repackage its offerings to meet the needs of local manufacturers and began marketing programs like the Industrial Maintenance certificate as a gateway to jobs with manufacturers like Lucid Motors.
