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Waupaca Foundry

Community - Mar 1, 2022

Cultivating a workforce

Workforce development has been part of Waupaca Foundry's mission for decades. The company encourages its employees to obtain further education and training to advance their careers at the foundry. The foundry has subsidized classes in management and engineering, worked with local high schools and Fox Valley Technical College. According to Mike Nikolai, Waupaca Foundry's president, CEO and COO, education represents an investment.

Robert Cloud | waupacanow.com

#intern #jobs #K12 #robotics #skillsgap #trades #waupaca #wf #wfnews

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Feb 28, 2022

Waupaca Foundry Helps Celebrate 75 Years Of The Foundry Education Foundation

In 2022, the Foundry Education Foundation less formally known as FEF celebrates its 75th year. The program started in 1947, two years after WWII ended, due to the high demand for skilled workers in the metalcasting industry.

Lydia Engelbreth | Waupaca Foundry

#culture #engineering #intern #jobs #scholarships #skillsgap #workforcedevelopment

Waupaca Foundry

Community - Nov 15, 2021

Thinking Different in Education for Tomorrow’s Jobs

There has long been a stigma of choosing to attend a trade school over a four-year college. But as the price of tuition for universities has soared, the demand for workers has become more precedent, and the want of students to obtain a degree that is more niche to their future employment opportunities has increased, the value of trade schools in today’s economy is invaluable.

Ally Melby | Waupaca Foundry

#community #intern #skillsgap #workforcedevelopment

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 28, 2020

Intern Gains Experience within the Manufacturing Industry

Ben Karpus is a manufacturing engineer intern at Waupaca Foundry Plant 7E in Effingham, Illinois. He is currently attending school at the University of Illinois in Champagne Urbana and has a dual major in Physics and Engineering.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#effingham #intern

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 27, 2020

Internship yields a full-time position

Eli Kallio is returning for his 5th year at Waupaca Foundry. He began as a co-op student in the pattern shop in 2016. After high school, he immediately pursued an internship within the Tooling Department in spring 2017 and continued for four years.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #waupaca #workforcedevelopment

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 27, 2020

Applying knowledge from the classroom to the workplace

An internship can help close the gap between the classroom and the business world. Pursuing a career path can be extremely beneficial to aspiring professionals when adding to skills learned in the classroom with hands-on experience in the workplace.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 26, 2020

Occupational Health Intern Gains Experience With Waupaca Foundry

Emily Fuchs is an Occupational Health Nurse Intern at Waupaca Foundry Plant 5 in Tell City, Indiana. She is currently attending school at Vincennes University, Jasper Campus, and is majoring in nursing. Her family who works at Waupaca Foundry inspired her to join the team. Her dad, Terry Fuchs, is a Melt Foreman and her brother, Kyle Fuchs works in the IT department.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #nurse #tellcity

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 13, 2020

Intern Sets Himself Apart as a Job Candidate

See how Waupaca Foundry provides young professionals, like Landon Bissey, with internship opportunities to gain hands-on work experience in their chosen field of study.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#effingham #intern

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 3, 2020

Student Discovers Passion for Process Innovation with Waupaca Foundry

Sam Proft is a Process Engineering and Metallurgy Intern at Waupaca Foundry’s ductile iron foundry located in Marinette, WI.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #marinette

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Jul 28, 2020

Student Gains Experience with Waupaca Foundry

Jenna is a recent graduate from Concordia University Wisconsin in Human Resource Leadership and Business Management and has worked for Waupaca Foundry for four summers. The fourth summer being a Human Resource Intern.

Mackenzie Morey | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - May 6, 2020

Journalism Student Builds Portfolio with Internship at Waupaca Foundry

See how Ally Melby's 2-year Marketing Internship at Waupaca Foundry helped support her goal to become a journalist with strategic communications emphasis out of UW Madison.

Austin Dean | Waupaca Foundry

#employee-spotlight #intern #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Oct 17, 2019

High school work experience program yields 3-year internship

High schools partnering with local businesses to create job opportunities for students has become something of the norm. The benefits, though, can be outstanding.

Ally Melby | Waupaca Foundry

#engineering #intern #K12 #marinette

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Dec 9, 2018

Internship Mirrors Future Career

Many interns first starting out are tasked to do work that doesn't yield experience for their future careers. However, Caleb Hobson's project engineering internship at Plant 2/3 in Waupaca, Wisconsin has proven to be the opposite.

Ally Melby | Waupaca Foundry

#engineering #intern #jobs #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Dec 2, 2018

Internship at Waupaca Foundry solidifies vision for career

Autumn Raether is a human resources intern who was later promoted to a receptionist.

Ally Melby | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #jobs #marinette

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 22, 2018

Internship with Waupaca Foundry Changed Career Path

In August 2013, Nik Greulich, a high school student at the time, started an internship at Waupaca Foundry in Tell City, Indiana. He worked with project engineers with the intention to study mechanical engineering the following year at college. However, after working with the team closely, he realized this career path was not right for him and wanted something more hands on.

Ally Melby | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #tellcity

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Aug 7, 2018

College student takes internship 900 miles from home | Waupaca Foundry

Some college students will do anything for the perfect internship before graduation. For Tyler Makoski, that meant traveling over 900 miles to have the opportunity to work as a summer intern at Waupaca Foundry in Waupaca, Wis.

Ally Melby | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #safety #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Feb 16, 2017

Student spotlight: Hannah Fudge

When I started college, I developed a deeper love for math and science, which is an encouragement to continue on my degree path. As a chemical engineer, I will use my science background to problem-solve and think on my feet in a production or design setting. I do not know the options I will have as an engineer, but right now, what I love most about my degree path is learning more about how the world works through chemistry and math.

Post-Crescent Media

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Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Mar 27, 2015

Internship Leads to Full Time Job As Environmental Technician

Audra Gelhausen always knew she wanted a job that was outdoors, she knew she didn't want to be at a desk all day. While she was completing her geology degree at Indiana University Southeast, she was an intern at Waupaca Foundry in Tell City, Indiana in 2012.

Karen Snyder | Waupaca Foundry

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Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Feb 5, 2015

Summer Job Offers Student Chelsey Hazelip Valuable Work Experience

An amusement park couldn't be less like a foundry, but for Chelsey Hazelip, they are both part of where she is today. Chelsey started working as the mascot for the regional amusement park (she spent the summer dressed as a big, furry dog), but realized she needed to earn more to pay for college.

Karen Snyder | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #it #jobs #tellcity

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Jan 26, 2015

Student Sees Summer Job As Gateway To Career in Engineering

The Monday after he graduated from high school in 2014, Chase Hafley was in orientation at Waupaca Foundry's Etowah, Tennessee plant and he was thrilled to be there. Chase currently works in the core room, but he has big plans that involve continuing his education at the Athens Technical Institute where he will study electrical and mechanical maintenance.

Chip Chandler | Waupaca Foundry

#etowah #intern #jobs

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Jan 20, 2015

Summer Job Changed This College Student's Career Path

A natural aptitude for tinkering and fixing things started a career path for Trevor Williams. He started in the mill room at Waupaca Foundry in 2011 while he was finishing a degree in Criminal Justice at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. "I've always tinkered with stuff and I like fixing things," he said. â€œSo I volunteered for maintenance one weekend—then I kept volunteering for that work."

Brian Kaminske | Waupaca Foundry

#engineering #intern #jobs #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Jan 13, 2015

Summer Job Helps Shape Career As Electrician at Waupaca Foundry

After spending a summer working in the ductile iron foundry, Austin Lemke changed his focus at school and realized he had a unique opportunity. Austin worked at Waupaca Foundry in Marinette, WI while he attended Northeast Wisconsin Technical College from 2011-2014, then changed his focus from welding to a career as an electrician. He started working in the core room, but volunteered to work general maintenance every other weekend.

Phil Eatherton | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #jobs #marinette

Waupaca Foundry

Culture - Dec 22, 2014

For Student, Summer Part-Time Job Is "Life Changing"

When you grow up in a foundry town or in a foundry family, the concept of "summer job" can be life changing.

Jill Schuelke | Waupaca Foundry

#intern #jobs #waupaca

Waupaca Foundry | PartingLINE

Cultivating a workforce

Waupaca Foundry Helps Celebrate 75 Years Of The Foundry Education Foundation

Thinking Different in Education for Tomorrow’s Jobs

Intern Gains Experience within the Manufacturing Industry

Internship yields a full-time position

Applying knowledge from the classroom to the workplace

Occupational Health Intern Gains Experience With Waupaca Foundry

Intern Sets Himself Apart as a Job Candidate

Student Discovers Passion for Process Innovation with Waupaca Foundry

Student Gains Experience with Waupaca Foundry

Journalism Student Builds Portfolio with Internship at Waupaca Foundry

High school work experience program yields 3-year internship

Internship Mirrors Future Career

Internship at Waupaca Foundry solidifies vision for career

Internship with Waupaca Foundry Changed Career Path

College student takes internship 900 miles from home | Waupaca Foundry

Student spotlight: Hannah Fudge

Internship Leads to Full Time Job As Environmental Technician

Summer Job Offers Student Chelsey Hazelip Valuable Work Experience

Student Sees Summer Job As Gateway To Career in Engineering

Summer Job Changed This College Student's Career Path

Summer Job Helps Shape Career As Electrician at Waupaca Foundry

For Student, Summer Part-Time Job Is "Life Changing"