Efforts to Develop Skilled Manufacturing Employees Earns Tegra Medical a Community Partnership Award

Tegra Medical received the Community Partnership Award from the Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical School in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 31, 2023. Employees Ken Nadeau, Ronan McDermott and Brian Yanofsky attended the ceremony and accepted the award.

“We are very pleased to receive this award. Tegra Medical is taking the steps towards building a more sustainable workforce for the future,” said Benjamin Stolzel, Tegra Medical General Manager. “Manufacturing in the US is not possible without developing a highly skilled workforce. Co-ops and apprenticeships are the best path to get there. That’s why we have made it such an important goal to have at least five percent of our staff in secondary education programs such as the career paths we have developed with the state of Massachusetts.”

L-R: Ken Nadeau, Ronan McDermott, Brian Yanofsky

The relationship between Tegra Medical and Tri-County began in 2018 with two engineering students employed as co-ops. These students made a great impression, leading to Tegra Medical employing sixteen more co-op students over the following several school years, and even hiring one upon graduation.

Not even COVID 19 could put a damper on the co-ops’ work at the company. As a manufacturer of medical devices, Tegra Medical was designated as an essential business in 2020, which meant that the company was allowed to continue operations – and the students were able to continue their valuable on-the-job education.

Tegra Medical looks forward to many more years of working with Tri-County students, as well as students at other schools and colleges who are interested in a career in the medical device industry.

About Tegra Medical

Tegra Medical

Known as the company that brings medical devices to life, Tegra Medical is focused exclusively on the medical device industry, providing true end-to-end solutions from prototyping to full production, and from complex components to finished medical devices. Offering a wide range of manufacturing technologies, the company creates devices used in cutting-edge procedures for leading medical device companies. Tegra Medical has ISO 13485 manufacturing locations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Costa Rica. The company is ISO 14001 certified for effective environmental management. Tegra Medical is a member of SFS.  

https://www.tegramedical.com/