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Garland Chamber of Commerce
Pregis — Workforce Evolution
Workplace Development
FAME
At Pregis, we are focused on developing our
Federal Alliance of Manufacturing Excellence is a
workforce in multiple ways: to help improve personal
program that is offered through the DCMA in the
/ professional development, and to improve the way
Garland area. Pregis Innovative Packaging was able
incoming employees are hired, onboarded and trained
to send a current employee named Dylan Carnley, a
to whatever role they are 昀椀lling in our organization.
former production employee, to this program to allow
him to be trained as a maintenance technician. He
Walk In Wednesday
attends the FAME classes 2-3 times per week, and
This year, our volume growth plan called for us to
we allow him to work as a maintenance technician
move from a 5-day to a 7-day operation. That meant
on his other workdays. He will continue this schedule
we needed to increase our staf昀椀ng by 25% by the end
and will work through the modules of the program.
of Q2.
Upon completion of the program and his subsequent
graduation, he will return full-time to the facility as a
maintenance technician.
Through a collaborated effort (led by Sheila Fisher)
we held a series of hiring events called “Walk In
Wednesdays.” These events allowed us to hold open
interviews with the goal of making hiring decisions on
large amounts of people as quickly as possible (some
instances on the spot offers were extended).
We had four different events with more than 200
applicants in attendance. We extended offers to 30+
people and hired about 20 over the course of the
events. We teamed up with our hourly employees to
conduct a joint management/employee interview with
the applicants. We also relied heavily on employee
FAME student Dylan Carnley and HR Generalist
Sheila Fisher on FAME signing day.
referrals, and advertised with the Garland Chamber
Leadership Development
of Commerce, Workforce Development and several
We are currently sending four to 昀椀ve hourly
staf昀椀ng agencies. It has been a wonderful experience,
employees to attend the leadership development
and we will add it to our recruiting strategy moving
program series. Each employee will attend four
forward.
different full-day sessions, where they will be exposed
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