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KANNAPOLIS — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has forged a partnership with Wayne Brothers construction company to assist in training and educating local residents.
Through the N.C. Back-To-Work initiative, students will be able to acquire the necessary skills required to obtain employment in the heavy commercial construction industry.
Wayne Brothers, a Kannapolis-based concrete construction and site development contractor, has not only returned to pre-recession staffing, but grown beyond it.
“I started to notice as soon as the economy showed signs of recovery there was a decline in the candidate pool,” said Milton Chicas, training & recruiting director for Wayne Brothers. “We were looking for individuals with character, skills and willingness to learn. That proved to be a big challenge for us.”
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College was recently awarded a $301,539 grant from the North Carolina Department of Commerce in support of the NC Back-to-Work initiative...

You can’t judge a book by its cover, and you can’t judge construction workers by their appearance. To determine whether they can do the job for which they’ve applied, employers have two tools: a medical exam and a fit-for-duty test. The latter has been developed especially for Wayne Brothers by Carolinas HealthCare System. Wayne Brothers, based in Kannapolis, is a construction company specializing in site development, grading and concrete construction for commercial and industrial clients throughout the Southeast..