Butler County Manufacturing Consortium

The Butler County Manufacturing Consortium’s mission is to identify and meet the developing needs and to enhance the growth of all Butler County manufactures. We use the tagline of “Strength in Working Together” to emphasize the importance of cooperation and partnering with our resource partners in education and community development. Our current objectives include: Improving the image and promotion of manufacturing, connecting with students, parents and teachers, incumbent workforce development and helping the public understand that we manufacture what the world uses. Did you know… Manufacturing is the 2nd largest employer sector in Southwestern, PA. Butler County is home to more manufacturing companies than any other county in Pennsylvania. Advanced manufacturing uses the latest in cutting edge technology including: Nanofabrication, Electro-Optics, Robotics, Computer Numerical Control, And much more. Average Salary in Butler County manufacturing industries is $46,000.00. While in High School begin your path through the Butler County Vo-Tech, which offers training in manufacturing related areas such as Computer Aided Drafting, Machine Technology & Computer Networking and Telecommunications. Many companies offer Apprentice programs, On-the-Job training and Industry Association Credential. Butler County Community College offers Certificate and/or Associate programs. Degrees in demand are: CAM/CNC Technology, Computer Aided Drafting, CNC Machine Technology, Instrumentation and Maintenance Technology, Machine Drafting & Design, Metrology, Process Control and Quality Management Technologies. Pennsylvania has been experiencing a shortage of advanced manufacturing workers that presents a threat to Pennsylvania’s manufacturing base. Some reasons for the shortage are rapid technological changes from traditional to advanced manufacturing along with many of the highly skilled manufacturing workers will be retiring in the next 5 to 10 years.