JetZero, Deloitte launch Guilford County workforce program for students

JetZero’s Greensboro factory is now being matched with a classroom pipeline designed to feed it. Deloitte said its Believers initiative will reach about 5,000 Guilford County students and educators, giving local high schoolers early exposure to STEM skills that could lead to internships, advanced manufacturing work and aerospace careers tied to the company’s planned footprint at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

The program lands as JetZero tries to turn a June 12, 2025 site selection into a long-term hiring engine for Guilford County. State officials have said the project will bring more than $4 billion in investment and create 14,500 jobs, and Governor Josh Stein said at the June 15, 2026 groundbreaking that the factory’s flagship operations would generate more than 14,500 high-wage aerospace manufacturing jobs, making it the largest economic development project in North Carolina history based on job commitment.

Deloitte described Believers as a workforce-development initiative built around industry-relevant STEM skills, hands-on training and career exposure. In Guilford County, that means students will work through coding and robotics-style problem solving, including assembling and racing remote-controlled rovers, a practical exercise meant to show how collaboration, precision and technical literacy show up in modern manufacturing. JetZero said the effort is meant to equip students with skills for advanced manufacturing and engineering, the same skill sets that could feed future hiring at the Greensboro plant.

Teachers are part of the pipeline too. Deloitte said 20 Guilford County Schools teachers will train at UNCG for eight days before bringing the curriculum into classrooms later this fall, extending the program beyond a one-day demonstration. That reach matters because the company expects the Greensboro site to do more than assemble airplanes: JetZero has said the factory could produce up to 20 Z4 aircraft per month at full run rate in the late 2030s, a scale that would demand a steady stream of technicians, engineers and production workers.

The local partnership includes UNCG, Guilford County Schools, the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and the National Math and Science Initiative, showing that the region’s schools, university and business groups are trying to line up talent before the jobs arrive in full. For Guilford County, the measure of success will be whether students who might otherwise leave after graduation can see a clear path to well-paid aerospace work close to home.