Workforce Center offers training and services for those in job market

Fred Mecillas learned in May that Intertape Polymer, the plant where he worked in Brighton, would be closing by the end of the year, and he would lose his job.

Luckily for Mecillas, 60, and the 90-100 other employees who lost their jobs at Intertape, representatives from Adams County Workforce and Business Center and Colorado Department of Labor and Employment visited the Brighton Intertape plant to instruct employees of their options for finding new jobs or training and of the help they can receive.

“That was some good information they gave us,” Mecillas said of the visit from department of labor and the county’s workforce center. “It was a lot of stuff we didn’t know.”

Mecillas last day on the job was Nov. 3.

He’s now looking for another job and would like to get back into a receiving warehouse, the duty he performed at Intertape. To help him with that task, he’s recently registered at with the Adams County Workforce and Business Center.

In addition to helping individuals with career development and offering employment services at five locations throughout the county, the workforce and business center engages in business partnerships.