CHAPTER 14
Northern Tier Industry and Education Consortium
A Partnership for “First Chance” Programs
Pete Butler
In late 1992, when I was the site training and development manager at Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, plant, I found out about a youth apprenticeship program that had been piloted in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Seeing the obvious workforce development potential, I made a business case to P&G management for applying the program to the Northern Tier region and P&G’s Mehoopany plant, its largest worldwide facility with over 100 acres under one roof and over 3,000 employees.
Prior to this time, the average hiring age at the Mehoopany plant was 30 years old. Knowing that the ...
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