JobsFriday, November 6
Charlotte is training local workers to compete for transit-tax construction jobs
The Daily Huntersville team
If you're a Charlotte-area worker or small-business owner eyeing construction jobs, the city is offering training. The city's Skilled to Build program teaches small-business owners and their employees how to win large construction contracts, with free courses from several city departments. It's tied to the 1% sales tax Mecklenburg County voters passed in 2025 for roads, rail and buses.
- City investment: more than $2 million in programs
- Current class: 19 people in a four-week boot camp
- Expected in the next six months: $30 million in projects
- Large projects identified: seven, with completion dates of 2030
Charlotte is training workers ahead of a wave of transit-tax projects
- $2 million+
- invested by the city in training programs
- 19
- people in the current Skilled to Build class
- $30 million
- in projects expected in the next six months
- 7
- large projects with completion dates of 2030
Sources: Queen City News, WBTV
The training reaches workers too. In the current class, participants learn CPR, first aid and job-site safety before hands-on construction. The city is preparing for more than $25 billion in transportation and transit investment over 30 years, which it estimates could create roughly 6,000 jobs.
6,000jobs the city estimates over 30 years
In construction, skilled trades and professional services.
Source: WBTV
“We're going to really need the whole contractor ecosystem to engage to help us be successful in the end to deliver these commitments to the community.”
Sources: Queen City News, WBTV