ThyssenKrupp Training Applications Opened in Mobile in 2008
Archived WKRG coverage announced the opening of online applications for free training tied to jobs at the ThyssenKrupp steel mill.
Historical report, published from archived local news coverage.
In May 2008, people interested in training for jobs at the planned $3.7 billion ThyssenKrupp steel mill could begin applying online for free training through AIDT, according to an archived local news report. The training, part of Alabama’s two-year college system, was held on weeknights in Mobile, with the possibility of expanding to daytime and weekend sessions if demand warranted.
Operating positions at the steel mill were expected to pay up to $25 an hour, while industrial-maintenance positions could pay up to $30 an hour.
Applicants who had already applied for ThyssenKrupp-related AIDT training were being reviewed and did not need to apply again, the report noted.
This is a historical hiring and training notice; the application period is no longer current.
About AIDT and the Calvert mill
AIDT, the state’s workforce training agency for new and expanding industry, was created by the Alabama Legislature in 1971. It recruits, screens and trains job candidates for employers at no cost to the trainees.
The mill the trainees were preparing for later changed hands. ThyssenKrupp’s stainless steel operations at Calvert passed to Outokumpu in 2012, and in 2014 the carbon steel plant was sold to a joint venture of ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, which operates it as AM/NS Calvert.
