Lincoln Tech Celebrates 20th Graduating Class from the Hussmann TechX Training Center

The advanced training program at Lincoln’s Grand Prairie, TX campus has produced over 200 technicians since 2018 with a 96% job placement rate.

Parsippany, NJ, Oct. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (NASDAQ: LINC), a national leader in specialized technical training for more than 75 years, recently celebrated the 20^th graduating class from the Hussmann TechX Center located within Lincoln Tech’s Grand Prairie, TX campus.   Lincoln is entering its fourth year partnering with Hussmann, the leading global provider of commercial refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, and is helping the company build its workforce of field technicians at a time when the HVAC industry overall is projecting 385,000 job openings nationwide by 2030*. Since opening the Hussmann TechX training facility in 2018, Lincoln Tech has helped Hussmann hire more than 200 new technicians across the country.

“My career at Hussmann has changed my life,” says Matt Dube, a 2019 TechX graduate. Dube began his training at Lincoln Tech’s East Windsor, CT campus and now works for Hussmann as a Biolife Lead Technician. “I can’t thank Lincoln Tech and TechX enough. I’ve put a lot of hours into advancing myself professionally, and with their support it has really paid off.”

“It has been an exciting time helping one of the industry’s top employers build their workforce while also launching successful careers for dozens of our graduates,” says Scott Shaw, Lincoln Tech’s President and CEO. “We were honored to have been chosen by Hussmann to host the TechX facility in 2018, and all sides have been enjoying the fruits of this partnership since day one.”

The most recent graduating class from the TechX facility was the 20^th cohort to complete their training and move on to Hussmann careers. Outlets such as supermarkets, restaurants and pharmacies all depend on Hussmann equipment to keep produce, medications and other perishables safely cooled. So do blood plasma centers, as Dube discovered early in his new career.

“The FDA regulates that plasma must always be kept at minus-38 degrees or colder, otherwise it’s unusable,” he says. “So I spend a good part of my workdays in freezers that are minus-40. For other clients, I may be on a tar roof in the Texas sun working on air conditioning units. The variety of work keeps it interesting.”

Dube recently marked three years working in the field, and has spent the last nine months as Biolife Lead Technician based out of Hussmann’s North Texas branch. Biolife Plasma Services operates eight plasma centers around the Dallas-Fort Worth region, and Dube is consulted on 98% of their service calls. “I take a lot of pride in that,” he says. “In addition to technical skills, the ability to effectively communicate is a must. The Biolife technicians all communicate through me – there can sometimes be as much as $2 million worth of plasma at a site, and we need to make sure no information is ever lost or overlooked among our team members.”