Mayor's Manufacturing Initiative 

The Mayor’s Manufacturing Initiative is a collaboration between stakeholders including Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s Offi ce, Employ Milwaukee, WRTP/BIG STEP, technical colleges and economic development groups. The initiative has two overarching goals: 1) to help eliminate the manufacturing skills gap by training job seekers with the skills employers need to fill actual job openings, and 2) to fill these job openings with trained City of Milwaukee residents who are unemployed or underemployed. Trainees of this initiative access a career pathway in the manufacturing industry while placed in businesses such as Harley-Davidson, Masterson, Briggs & Stratton, Miller Coors, Brady Corporation, Capitol Stampings and DRS Technologies.