Summer Work Experience through Young Professionals Lead to Full-Time Employment at LP+P in Lapeer

Lapeer – Local manufacturer, Lapeer Plating + Plastics, works with the GST Michigan Works! Lapeer Service Center to locate employees through hiring events and referrals from collected resumes. The need to fill openings is on-going and when the opportunity to provide a chance for a recent graduate to test manufacturing as a paid employee through the Young Professionals program became available, Human Resource manager Joe DuBreuil was more than willing to give the program a try.

LP+P had open positions for third shift that ran from 3:30a – 1:30pm. Jeremiah Ham, a participant in the Young Professionals program was seeking employment that could teach him the basics of manufacturing and be full-time employment. The Young Professionals program offers an 8-week work experience with the opportunity for permanent employment at the end if both parties feel it is a good fit. As fate would have it, Jeremiah had a consistent ride to LP+P for the hard-to-fill 3:30am shift. Jeremiah completed the paid work experience and was offered a full-time, permanent position! 

GST Michigan Works! was able to partner with LP+P to find a perfect fit for the more challenging third shift need. LP+P was able to give a youth a first-ever work experience that impacted his ability to learn manufacturing processes in a learning environment that contributed to a good employee and filled a need of the employer. The willingness of Lapeer Plating + Plastics to work with the “Young Professionals” program had lasting benefits for everyone involved.