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Time Warner Cable formally opens training facility in Clay

Steve Makowski, Time Warner Cable area vice president of operations for Central New York, speaks with a group of technicians outside the two-story training structure, which is part of a training facility the cable company formally opened today at 7890 Davis Road in Clay. (Photo by Eric Reinhardt).

CLAY, N.Y. — Time Warner Cable today formally opened its first training facility in the Northeast, located at 7890 Davis Road in the town of Clay and adjacent to Interstate 481.

The facility, which includes a two-story building resembling a small house, will serve as a training center for more than 500 technicians in the Central New York area, the company said.

The structure provides a “great opportunity” for Time Warner Cable to allow its technicians (techs) to conduct hands-on training, Steve Makowski, area vice president of operations for Central New York, said while speaking to reporters at the formal opening.

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“It gives everybody the feel for what they’re going to be doing when they get into a house, which we haven’t done before,” Makowski said.

The Davis Road facility also includes a pole farm.

“This is where the techs learn to climb poles to get up to be able to handle all the outside wiring that needs to be done,” he said. 

Time Warner technicians “typically” complete a 12-week training program before the company sends them into the field, he added.

Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com

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