Portsmouth Company Gets Job Training Grant

CHI Engineering Services Inc. of Portsmouth is one of six companies receiving grants from the New Hampshire Job Training Fund, Gov. Maggie Hassan announced March 31.

CHI Engineering Services will receive up to $19,584.50 to train 31 employees, including training in plant design set-up, HYSYS, gas operations, shallow foundation design, control valves and regulators, and pressure relieving systems.

The six grants will help train a total of 418 workers. The six grants come to $114,978.25, but matching funds from the companies brings the total training benefit to $229,956.50, according to the governor's office.

The other five grants were to:

• Associated Grocers of New England Inc. of Pembroke received a grant of up to $6,190 for six employees to receive CDL-A training from Lakes Region Community College and Front Line Management Training from New Hampshire Technical Institute.
• A grant of $5,545 was awarded to Manchester Community Health Center for two employees to receive SQL Server Training from Training Camp for Microsoft.
• FLIR Commercial Systems received $15,770 to train 160 employees in communications and customer services with Tandem Training Corp.
  
• Airex Corporation of Somersworth received a training grant of $8,205 for 13 employees to receive MRP, Soldering, CNC Machine and programming platform training from four providers.
• NH Ball Bearings of Peterborough received a grant of $59,683.75 for providers Tooling U, Driveworks Pro/Solidworks, ASQ, Norton/Saint-Gobain and UNH to train 206 employees in a variety of skills.

The Job Training Fund has awarded $6,902,763.64 in grants since October 2007, with employers contributing another $9,530,274.61, for training for 20,398 New Hampshire workers.