Jobs in San Antonio Supported by Collaborative Effort

A collaborative effort among local leaders, businesses, and educational institutions is helping to create jobs in San Antonio.

The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced that it will award $400,000 in federal funding to Port San Antonio next year. The funding will allow PSA to collaborate with St. Philip's College to provide additional training in industries that have a presence at the port.

Some of the funding will be used to support training programs tailored to the needs of existing aerospace companies at PSA, while some will be used to support similar training for future PSA aerospace customers, both of which are aimed at attracting new businesses to the area.

PSA is already home to 13 aerospace-related companies, including: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Chromalloy, Standard Aero, Pratt & Whitney, and Gore Design Completions, among others. If you're an employer at one of these companies and are looking to hire or train workers, check out employee background check services (Click here).

"Top aerospace companies have set up shop at Port San Antonio in large part because of the well-trained workers that emerge from the programs at St. Philip's, and we look forward to building on that record of success," Bruce Miller, PSA president and CEO, told the San Antonio Business Journal.

In addition, some of the funding will be used to train workers who live in one of the two school districts surrounding the port, including South San Antonio Independent School District and Edgewood Independent School District.

So far, PSA has obtained more than $900,000 to support educational efforts in the San Antonio area, including $345,000 that was given to St. Philip's in 2008 to develop customized worker training for aerospace companies at the port.

The port also has established scholarship funds worth $160,000 for incoming students at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Alamo Colleges.