Students at St. John Lutheran School in Rochester, Michigan, are utilizing a variety of sources to research and prepare for this year’s Future City competition, a project-based learning program where students imagine, research, design and build cities of the future. This includes tapping into the knowledge and life experience of FCA engineer Pedro Santiago. Santiago, a
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Category Archives: Our People
High-Tech, Global and Growing: How today’s manufacturing jobs are better and brighter than ever before
Wendi Gentry-Stuenkel is the Head of Supply Chain Management, FCA – North America With a 3.9% unemployment rate, an aging workforce soon to retire and a common misperception of plant jobs, our country is facing a talent crunch in the manufacturing industry. By 2030, U.S. manufacturing will experience a shortfall of 383,000 workers. From mechanics,
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Diverse Talent Fuels Us
Brian Johnson is the Senior Manager – Diversity & Inclusion, FCA US LLC At FCA US, diverse talent fuels our ability to deliver innovative products and solutions to the communities of people who buy and enjoy our products. Among the most meaningful investments for us are those that engage and inspire talented, diverse people to
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FCA Community: Detroit Youth Taught Lawn Care and Life-Long Lessons
Eric Miller’s job brought him to Detroit in 2012, but he brought more to the city than just his family. Launched in 2013, The Lawn Academy provides Detroit-area boys and girls, ages 11-19, a six-week college immersion program in partnership with Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD). In turn, the youth provide lawn care services,
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How Duct Tape and Cardboard Improved Nine-Speed Transmission Production
Scissors, duct tape and cardboard. These three resources, combined with a GoPro digital camera, helped employees at Indiana Transmission Plant I (ITPI) develop a solution to improve the efficiency of nine-speed transmission production. Before we tell you more about the “duct, paper, scissors” move, let’s explain a bit about transmission manufacturing. Gears are a major
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FCA helps students explore, invent tomorrow’s next big thing
No one knows what the future holds, but for several weeks this summer FCA opened windows of opportunity for employees’ school-age children to dream big and think creatively about what the future could and should look like. FCA’s Camp Invention and Invention Project camp invited more than 200 elementary, middle and high school students of
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FCA Community: Breathing New Life into Toledo Neighborhood Parks
To her, the parks are personal. She honed her basketball skills on the courts. Her family gathered at the picnic tables. She ran drills out in the grass fields. Now, Rita Jackson, an FCA US employee at the Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, gives back to those community parks that molded her formative years. “Our
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