Originally Posted by
Michael Drew
I am a maintenance manager. I have millwrights, electricians, instrument techs, comm techs, machinists, and welders. Each year we go through a recruiting/hiring process to fill open positions, mostly open through attrition nowadays. The pool has dried up. I used to wade through 600+ resumes. Now, I'm lucky to see 200, and half of those are not even remotely qualified.
Try and find a machinist that can run manual machines..... Good luck. They are CNC programmers anymore.
We pay extremely well, 401K + pension, excellent benefits.
There simply are not many in trades anymore. And frankly, work ethic is a trait that seems to have evaporated. I can teach a lot of things, but I can't teach someone work ethics.
If anyone knows a good machinist that might want to work in Alaska, we will be posting for two real soon.
I hear you. My manager had asked me and one of the electricians to help interview new hires. Some of them were complete bozos and one "electrician" couldn't draw how to wire two switches in a series, claimed he didn't have to know because "there's an app for that".
CNC machines are great if you have to crank out 120 widgets an hour. Load up your bar feeders and hit the go button. But they can be slow. If you don't need their precision a 6 spindle screw machine is faster. But now you need someone who can think and knows how to set the machine up.
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