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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

In the business world, finding and keeping talented people takes top precedent. The same can be said for the broader local economy, just on a larger scale. When it comes to attracting and expanding existing businesses, workforce matters. This is why local economic development organizations work hard to build the quantity and quality of their region's talent resources.

Raymore offers many locational advantages in terms labor, including an exceptionally prepared and reliable workforce. In addition to Raymore's local labor-pool, we're also just a short commute away from Jackson County to the north, and Johnson and Miami Counties in Kansas.

Raymore's qualified workforce offers 40% more value-per-hour than the national average, making it more affordable to do business in Raymore.

Workforce YOU

Workforce YOU is dedicated to bringing together key stakeholders to tackle challenges such as childcare, transportation, education/training, and housing.

Key stakeholders include a broad spectrum of participants: communities, businesses, government entities, for-profit and non-profit organizations, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and individuals.

When challenges negatively impact people and employers, the entire community is affected. Workforce YOU creates a united effort to solve these problems, creating positive outcomes for everyone involved.

Raymore-Peculiar Enterprise & Design

Raymore-Peculiar's Enterprise & Design exists to assist students in developing their agency, efficacy, and passions while gaining valuable real-world and academic skills so they can succeed in a world of rapid and constant change.

Workforce

Modeled after the Iowa BIG program, RP E&D offers a unique curriculum designed to help students have a voice and choice in their own learning journey as well as an opportunity for them to discover and develop their gifts, talents and interests. Student learning is done predominantly through real-world projects regarding topics in which they are passionate.

Students engage in a variety of real-world, client-connected projects that allow them to apply gained-knowledge to real-world problems.

For more information, please visit the Raymore-Peculiar Enterprise & Design Site.

ACT Certified Works Ready Communities (CWRC)

Southland Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS)

With the CAPS program, juniors and seniors in high school fast forward into their future and are fully immersed in a professional culture solving real world problems using industry standard tools, and are mentored by actual employers, all while receiving high school and college credit.

Located at Raytown Herndon Career Center, 11501 E State Rte 305, Raytown, MO 64138

Cheryl Reichert, Director; 816-268-7140

Katie Zeiger, Assistant Director - Business and Industry Liaison; 816-268-7140

Metropolitan Community College

Missouri Innovation Campus (MIC) - Lee's Summit, MO

This innovative program offers high school students a way to accelerate the time it takes to earn a college degree in addition to working in a high-demand internship. Participating in one of the Missouri Innovation Campus (MIC) programs, students will be on track to earn a bachelor's degree just two years after graduating from high school. The MIC is a progressive initiative by the University of Central Missouri (UCM), Metropolitan Community College (MCC), the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, community organizations and businesses partners.

Summit Technology Academy (STA)

Summit Technology Academy is a shared campus of junior and senior students who come together for a half-day program as an extension of their home high school. STA is a career-focused academy designed to prepare students for tomorrow's professional workforce.

UCM- Lee's Summit

Located 20 miles from Kansas City, UCM-Lee's Summit offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as professional education. We give professionals a pathway to their next career change, offering everything from entry-level industry recognized credentials to continuing education units (CEUs).

Missouri One Start

Raymore’s strengths and assets through our people and location allow for a wide swath of target industries. Its proximity makes it part of a greater Kansas City region where major employers within these focused industries help to support robust sectors such as distribution & logistics, advanced manufacturing, eCommerce, and data centers. Our region is equipped with an extensive transportation network, touting outstanding central interstate access and convenient proximity to most of the U.S. and beyond whether via ground, air, rail, or even water.

Quickly becoming the preferred location in the greater Kansas City area, Raymore and Cass County continues to pick up momentum as the place to locate your business.

TARGET INDUSTRIES

Distribution & Logistics

Missouri knows logistics, and can get your product to the global market quickly and efficiently. We are North America’s rail, river, road, air and pipeline crossroads, and a booming epicenter of commerce.

We can get your goods anywhere in the world via our international airports, extensive river barge infrastructure, or any of the US Class 1 railroads, and Missouri has direct access via rail to ports on every U.S. coast and in Mexico and Canada.

The Kansas City region has a rich history as a center for commerce. Its heartland, river-based location made it a natural crossroads for transcontinental rail, interstate, and waterway. Through its history, Greater Kansas City has established itself as the leading center for trade and distribution within the central United States. Kansas City is experiencing one of the largest industrial booms in its history and is a center of choice for warehousing, manufacturing and distribution. Business has prospered due in large part to the region’s abundant, multi-modal transportation network.

Kansas City has several key components that make it an excellent hub for all transportation and logistics operations.

Raymore, Missouri is situated along I-49 mere minutes from 3 other major interstates that stretch across the U.S.: I-70, I-29, and I-35.

We are proud members of Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) and KC SmartPort, both intently focused on recruiting quality distribution and logistics companies to the greater Kansas City metropolitan area

Training Programs

City of Raymore, Missouri in partnership with the State of Missouri is dedicated to working with our new and existing companies to ensure that our workforce is both highly skilled and ready to go.

Link over to “Incentives” main tab ->“State of Missouri - Business Incentive Programs”

Who’s Here

Check out who already calls the KC metro area home for distribution and logistics operations.

Additional Resources:

Missouri Partnership Logistics webpage

Missouri Partnership Logistics brochure

KCADC Distribution

KC SmartPort

Advanced Manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing is the use of innovative technology to improve the creation of products or processes. Missouri is at the very center for advanced manufacturing excellence, supported by a cost competitive, pro-business and innovative environment, exceptional talent, extensive training programs, access to raw materials, and a globally connected infrastructure.

We are proud members of Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) and KC SmartPort, both intently focused on recruiting quality Manufacturing companies to the greater Kansas City metropolitan area

Training Programs

City of Raymore, Missouri in partnership with the State of Missouri is dedicated to working with our new and existing companies to ensure that our workforce is both highly skilled and ready to go.

State of Missouri - Business Incentive Programs

Who’s Here

Additional Resources

Missouri Partnership Manufacturing

KCADC Manufacturing

KC SmartPort

eCommerce

You don’t need to look too far to find out that eCommerce is witnessing an enormous boom both here in the U.S. and worldwide. Online sales of goods have been climbing steadily over the last five years, increasing by roughly 15 percent per year. As the crossroads of North America, Kansas City offers a strong advantage as 85 percent of the U.S. population can be reached from a Kansas City location within two days or less.

Kansas City has several key advantages that make it an excellent location for eCommerce companies:
Located at the intersection of four of the nation’s major interstate highways (I-35, I-70, I-29, I-49)
The Kansas City International Airport, which saw air cargo tonnage surge 8.8% year-over-year in February 2016
The heart of a rail corridor spanning coast-to-coast across the U.S. and extending from Canada to Mexico (NAFTA Railway)
We are proud members of Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC) and KC SmartPort, both intently focused on recruiting quality eCommerce companies to the greater Kansas City metropolitan area

Industry Snapshot

In 2015 the Kansas City region ranked among the top 15 markets for warehouse product under construction according to Site Selection Group.

The University of Kansas' supply chain management program ranks in the top 25 undergraduate supply chain programs in the U.S., according to Gartner, Inc.

Training Programs

City of Raymore, Missouri in partnership with the State of Missouri is dedicated to working with our new and existing companies to ensure that our workforce is both highly skilled and ready to go.

State of Missouri - Business Incentive Programs

Additional Resources

KCADC eCommerce

KC SmartPort

Biosciences

The Kansas City region is a proven global leader in animal health, drug development, diagnostics and clinical research. The Kansas City region offers a strong network of expertise and knowledge for human and animal health companies working to grow their businesses and advance their technologies.

We are proud members of Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC), who is intently focused on recruiting quality bioscience companies to the greater Kansas City metropolitan area

Training Programs

City of Raymore, Missouri in partnership with the State of Missouri is dedicated to working with our new and existing companies to ensure that our workforce is both highly skilled and ready to go.

State of Missouri - Business Incentive Programs

Who’s Here

Check out the manufacturing companies who already call the KC metro home.

Additional Resources

Kansas City Animal Health Corridor

Anchored by Manhattan, Kansas, and Columbia, Missouri, is home to more than 300 animal health companies, representing the largest concentration in the world. Companies with a strategic location in the KC Animal Health Corridor now represent 56 percent of total worldwide animal health, diagnostics and pet food sales.

Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute

Serves as the coordinating body for the Greater Kansas City region’s life sciences research initiatives, spanning Missouri and Kansas.

Missouri Biotechnology Association (MOBIO)

Nonprofit trade association that serves all Missouri organizations interested in the life sciences. MOBIO is composed of a broad cross-section of companies, institutions of higher education, research organizations and related firms involved in research, development and commercialization of the life sciences. MOBIO members promote economic development in Missouri by supporting life science research and practical applications that benefit the general population.

Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC)

Public-private partnership created by the Missouri General Assembly to promote entrepreneurship and foster the growth of new and emerging high-tech companies. MTC focuses on 21st Century bioscience industries that build on Missouri's rich history in agriculture and technology.

KCADC Biosciences

KC Animal Health Corridor