Automotive Training Program Opens in Buffalo, New York, to Address Technician Shortage

A new automotive technician training program has launched at the Northland Workforce Training Center in Buffalo, New York, to help address the local technician shortage, reports WBFO.

Curriculum for the eight-month program was developed by SUNY Erie Community College, with local dealers Northtown Automotive and West Herr Auto Group having helped develop the shop students would work in.

With two groups of 15 students already enrolled, students described their reasons for taking the program as wanting to help others and wanting to establish a career.

“We need people who are going to come in with the right skills, with the right trade and I don't want to go to other communities to get it,” said Jay Galligan of West Herr Auto Group. “We have people right here in this community to do it.”