Texas Workforce Commission

“Texas Workforce Commission was blown away by our flexibility, because we can offer training at Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station or at a customer’s site anywhere in Texas. And they were impressed with our top-notch curriculum, which is updated to the latest National Fire Protection Association standards and ready to go,” said Gordon Lohmeyer, ESTI Private Sector Program Director. “You could say that ESTI was staffed and poised to take advantage of this opportunity.”

“We have signed contracts with eight companies and we’re working with them on training schedules,” said Lohmeyer, who wrote the proposal, along with Ron Peddy of ESTI and Carla Collins of TEEX’s Technology & Economic Development division. The companies in the consortium are: Arkema, Chevron, Conoco, DuPont, Huntsman, Invista, Texas Petrochemicals and Valero. To participate, each company had to have multiple facilities or sites in Texas.

“This is in a fantastic opportunity for TEEX to leverage our relationship with these companies to help them train their employees,” said Collins, Training Director with TED, who will perform the administrative services for the grant