现在，各个年龄段的学生都可以在2月23日在德克萨斯州帕萨迪纳开业的Fluor新墨西哥湾海岸培训中心（Fluor）的新墨西哥湾海岸培训中心（New Gulf Coast Training Center）进入手工艺培训计划。

Fluor执行副总裁Glenn Gilkey说，该中心将提供“电气，仪器，Millwright和管道适合学科的就业前培训”。

将中心从概念带到现实（包括确定中心的范围和位置，雇用培训人员和入学学生），大约一年来完成。新利luck这个新设施代表了EPC承包商的数百万美元投资。

荧光currently holds a five-year lease on the Pasadena location, which still has plenty of room for potential future expansion.

“These entry level pre-employment training courses are tuition free for the students, who are under no obligation or commitment to work for Fluor. However, we hope the best ones will come to Fluor and that’s part of why we’re doing this as well,” Gilkey adds.

课程将作为12周的课程举行，结合了教室和动手技能培训，并在周四至周四举行，由国家建筑教育与研究中心（NCCER）认证的培训师领导。Local outreach to high schools, veterans’ organizations and colleges, among others, has helped bring in 42 students to the inaugural class, which is set to graduate on March 10. This includes eight students in electrical, 15 in instrumentation, 12 in pipefitting and seven in millwright. Fluor is currently going through another round of recruitment and selection for the next session of classes, which will start at the end of March. The firm expects to enroll about 15 new students in each discipline. The center also has about 15 students enrolled in welder upgrade training now.

荧光anticipates training about 300 students a year in Pasadena. Once completing the program, trainees receive industry-recognized entry-level credentials in NCCER core curriculum as well as NCCER level 1 and 2 certifications in their chosen trade, Gilkey says. “We’ve also expanded our pre-employment welder upgrade training program through this location,” he adds.

Pasadena became home to this facility because of its proximity to many of the region’s existing industrial and oil/gas-related facilities—as well as new projects and expansions.

“In the Gulf Coast alone, more than $480 billion is expected to be spent on more than 4,000 projects over next five years—and that is taking into account the low oil and gas prices we see today,” Fluor’s Chief Operating Officer Peter Oosterveer says. “With the number of projects already ongoing, combined with projects that are about to kick off, the U.S. Gulf Coast will require more than 102,000 skilled craft workers in 2017 compared with 91,000 last year.”

培训中心是荧光提供入门级，就业前培训的唯一地点，但是该公司还在休斯敦的一个地点提供了就业前焊工升级培训，以及美国各地的建筑工地的下班后培训

Oosteveer补充说：“项目职位应真正以最适合客户的资本计划为指导，不应受到对足够资源的担忧的限制或影响。”“ EPC行业有责任为当今和未来的机会发展工艺劳动力。这个培训中心是该责任的重要组成部分。”