Nortek Air Solutions’ Partnership with Charity Grows into HVAC Assembly Jobs Program for Disabled Adults
Center of Family Love’s Vocational Program now facilitates intellectually and physically disabled adults for HVAC air handler assembly
OKARCHE, Okla. —Nortek Air Solutions (NAS) recently took its partnership with Center of Family Love (CFL) a step further and began hiring the charity’s intellectually and physically disabled adults to work at its Okarche, Oklahoma, commercial HVAC air handler manufacturing plant.
The initial group of four CFL residents was trained on-site at NAS for one month last April to learn light fixture and wiring installation for 4 x 4-inch-square electrical boxes. The assemblies are eventually incorporated into the Temtrol branded air handlers the facility manufacturers. The group arrives at NAS accompanied by a CFL job coach for two eight-hour shifts weekly. They’re already completing 150 light fixture/box assemblies per week.