Our Mission
To help individuals with barriers to employment experience the Power of Work by providing training, support services, and career opportunities. |
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This area is involved in a wide variety of activities. Those activities include:
POTENTIAL WORK
Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan’s Heartland will consider any kind of work—performed in one of our facilities or in yours (referred to as an ‘enclave’). Some of the types of work we’ve done include: Assembly, packaging, gauging, inspection, labeling, sorting, inserting, sealing, kitting, collating, gluing and taping.
DEPARTMENT’S MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of GICMH’s Contracts area is to provide employment opportunities, employment training, and financial resources to support Goodwill’s efforts to assist individuals with disabilities and other vocational barriers.
QUALITY POLICY
The Manufacturing Department at Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan’s Heartland is committed to continuous improvement of its product and services by striving to provide zero defect quality and 100 percent on-time delivery in a cost-effective manner to ensure customer satisfaction.
TERRITORY
GICMH may do work for companies located in the following counties: Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Clinton Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham, Jackson, the northern half of Hillsdale County and the western one-quarter of Washtenaw County.
FACILITIES
Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan’s Heartland performs its work at two plant facilities, 4820 Wayne Road, Battle Creek and 617 N. Mechanic Street, Jackson. We also do work at the customers’ work sites—in the community. It depends upon the need.
I.S.O. STANDARDS
At the Battle Creek campus GICMH’s Manufacturing Department is ISO 9001:2000 registered. At the Jackson campus, Goodwill’s Manufacturing Department is in the process of obtaining ISO-9000 registration.
CUSTOMERS
Customers have included
| Advance Packaging Baker Manufacturing |
Hot Set Corporation |
| Battle Creek Public Schools |
I I Stanley |
| Bostik |
Industrial Steel Treating |
| Bradford & White |
Johnson Controls |
| Caster Concepts |
Lear Corporation |
| Christian Screenprint |
Material Management |
| Consumers Energy |
Marshall Brass |
| Eaton Aeroquip |
Meridian Magnesium |
| Eaton Corporation |
Michigan Seat |
| Eimo America |
Salco |
| Flexfab |
Sumitomo Wiring Systems |
| Gage Company |
United Steel & Wire |
| Gallagher Industrial |
Veola Water |
| Handley Industries |
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HOW YOU SAVE
SAVE ON PAYROLL: You don’t have to hire extra people for times you have extra orders to fill.
SAVE ON TIME: You don’t have to put on extra staff during peak times.
SAVE ON SPACE: Your packaging can be done away from your premises.
CONTACT
John Bauer
Phone: 269.964.9455
Fax: 888.452.5968
E-mail: jbauer@goodwillcmh.org
Office hours: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Plant hours: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM |
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