TALENT & WORKFORCE SERVICES CONSULTING
Turning Manufacturing People Challenges Into Competitive Advantages
CONSULTING TEAM
- Drive Innovation and Growth: Collaborate with our experienced team to develop talent strategies that align with your business objectives, delivering sustainable and measurable ROI.
- Identify and Address Gaps: Uncover blind spots hindering performance and implement targeted solutions.
- Build an Engaging Culture: Assess your organization's readiness and develop comprehensive talent strategies tied to business goals.
- Leverage Best Practices: Benefit from our experience working with Fortune 500® manufacturing companies and educational institutions nationwide.
- Flexible Frameworks: Tailored to align learning to meet business or community needs, no matter the starting point.
Talent, Training & Retention
SME’s Workforce Readiness & Accelerant Program (WRAP) is an on-site solution that helps employers quickly assess and improve talent practices. By embedding workforce specialists, WRAP identifies gaps in attracting, training, and retaining employees and delivers tailored action plans. The program helps optimize recruiting, accelerate onboarding, enhance training, and reduce attrition through custom strategies.
WRAP benchmarks organizations against best-in-class standards and deploys expert resources to implement solutions. From designing on-the-job training to improving recruiting pipelines, WRAP has achieved measurable results across industries such as aerospace, defense, transportation, and electric vehicle manufacturing. Examples include:
- Reducing turnover and saving $3 million for an aerospace company
- Cutting qualification time from three months to one week for a truck trailer manufacturer
- Improving engineering team competencies by 14 percent for a defense contractor
- Upskilling 1,800 electric vehicle technicians with a 98 percent success rate
Readiness Assessment
The biggest challenge facing U.S. manufacturing today is the skilled workforce shortage which demands immediate and decisive action. Experts say that, if not addressed now, the crisis will dangerously accelerate in the next decade.
To help companies address this issue, SME is offering this free Workforce 2030 Readiness Assessment. By answering a series of questions about your company’s knowledge retention, readiness for future skills requirements, and the status of employee development programs, you will be able to assess your ability to meet the rapidly approaching workforce challenges.
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BLENDED TRAINING APPROACH
This approach includes strong onboarding, role-based learning, and critical skill development. Then, a structured approach to OJT quickly qualifies employees for assigned job duties. The proper mix of training methodologies will rapidly develop individuals so they can meet the performance expectations of their job.
JOB DEFINITION
Identify the job roles in your organization, understand crossover between roles, and create career pathways.
STANDARDIZED OJT
Transfer organizational knowledge and skills from your most experienced team members and structure on-the-floor learning through a sustainable and measurable program.
ASSESSMENTS
Measure the knowledge and skills of individuals and better understand the capabilities of your workforce.
ANALYSIS & ADVISORY SUPPORT
Design and implement a learning and development program or build upon your existing program.
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Partner with our Talent & Workforce Services team to design a results-driven training program that turns workforce challenges into competitive advantages—accelerating performance, improving quality and productivity, and increasing employee satisfaction and retention.