Scaling the Skilled Trades & Crafts Workforce: Training, Partnerships, and Results

Tuesday, August 25|3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Educational Session|Workforce Development

As nuclear projects expand, demand for skilled trades and craft workers continues to grow. This session brings together industry, labor, and education leaders to discuss how they are building and scaling the workforce needed to support construction and operations. Panelists will examine training models, partnerships, and workforce pipelines being used across the industry, along with lessons learned in attracting, preparing, and deploying skilled workers to the jobsite.

What You’ll Gain:

Learn how industry, labor, and education partners are expanding skilled trades pipelines through practical training models, workforce partnerships, and scalable workforce development strategies.

Who Should Attend:

Workforce development professionals, labor and training leaders, construction and operations stakeholders, anyone interested in skilled trades workforce solutions for nuclear projects.


Panelists

Will Trumm

Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Relations

Tennessee Valley Authority

James Chesnut

Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations

Day & Zimmermann