Facebook launches construction job training program at Mesa data center site

 

Above: Facebook announced plans to build the Facebook Mesa Data Center, a 960,000 square-foot facility that will be the company’s first data center in Arizona.

REAL ESTATE  JACOB FLORES

The construction industry has been booming in Arizona for the past few years. Cumming, a national project management and cost consulting firm, reports that the market expanded a remarkable 21.2% in 2020, and while it projects development to peak sometime this year, it continues to flourish beyond expectations. Unfortunately, with such rapid growth, there aren’t enough skilled labor workers

To help the construction industry meet this need, Facebook recently launched a nationwide construction job training program, dubbed “Hardhat in Hand,” at its data center construction sites across the country. In August, the social networking technology company announced that it will be building a 960,000-square-foot data center in Mesa. The $800 million project will include the training program, which will bolster Arizona’s construction workforce. 

As indicated by the organization, Hardhat in Hand offers involved preparing for people to make an assorted pipeline of laborers that is required for development of the server farm as well as different tasks all through the Greater Phoenix region. 

David Williams, people group improvement director at Facebook, clarifies, "Hardhat in Hand is one of our endeavors to put resources into networks we are a piece of. It is our endeavor to address a key need — absence of talented specialists in the development business that Arizona and different states are confronting. The objective of the program is to extend the nearby gifted exchanges ability pipeline, increment variety in the development business and give a way to dependable generously compensated open positions." 

The program is an eight-week preparing that will have members start with homeroom coursework prior to moving to hands on preparing. The objective is to get understudies ready for passage level vocations in development. When members complete the program, they can acquire regular work in a wide range of fields inside development, like carpentry, electrical, concrete and the sky is the limit from there. Hardhat in Hand expected for anybody ages 18 and more established who is keen on making development a vocation instead of for laborers who are as of now in the business.