Related Builders and Contractors (ABC) has named John Mielke its senior director of apprenticeship. Based on the affiliation, the previous ABC Wisconsin chapter president will present strategic course, transformational management, and modern schooling options to ABC’s 67 chapters and 23,000 members and their apprenticeship trusts nationwide.
Within the function, Mielke will lead teaching programs that develop development’s subsequent technology of craft professionals, together with government-registered apprenticeship applications with the Worker Retirement Earnings Safety Act of 1974 (ERISA), compliance necessities, and versatile, competency-based, and market-driven schooling methodologies. He may also defend the ideas of advantage store development earlier than regulatory and legislative our bodies and symbolize ABC earlier than the media, exterior companies, companies, partnerships, commerce associations, and regional and nationwide workforce teams.
“[Mielke] has been a champion of development schooling for greater than 30 years at ABC’s Wisconsin chapter, which boasts one of many affiliation’s most formidable and profitable apprenticeship applications,” says Greg Sizemore, ABC vice chairman of well being, security, atmosphere and workforce improvement. “He’s the best chief to assist ABC chapters’ 800 current teaching programs, together with greater than 450 government-registered apprenticeship applications throughout 20 completely different occupations, ship worth to the contracting neighborhood. And he’ll assist ABC members proceed to construct their very own modern, merit-based craft teaching programs to handle a workforce scarcity that at present tops half one million.”
Mielke’s profession at ABC Wisconsin spanned 32 years, starting as apprenticeship coordinator in 1992 and culminating with 12 years as president of one in all ABC’s largest chapters. He grew the chapter’s membership to greater than 1,000 and its government-registered apprenticeship program to 2,400 apprentices yearly in 13 trades.
“Once I joined ABC of Wisconsin 32 years in the past, I used to be an apprenticeship supervisor,” says Mielke. “Quick ahead to immediately, and ABC of Wisconsin’s apprenticeship program is now one of many largest within the nation, so it is a full-circle second for me. I sit up for taking over this new problem to develop ABC apprenticeship applications nationally.”
