Electric Boat is hiring welders as fast as the submarine manufacturer can find them. Highland Park Market is looking for entry-level supermarket workers. And during blistering heat spells this summer, broken air conditioners went without repairs for lack of technicians.
In Connecticut and across the U.S., employers in nearly all industries are scrambling to find workers who quit during the pandemic, retired or are stymied by a lack of transportation and day care.
“Everyone is out hiring,” said Cathy White, director of talent acquisition at Electric Boat. “Competition is fierce for skilled labor.”
The subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp. faces U.S. Navy deadlines to manufacture two nuclear submarines a year, in addition to the start of production of its next-generation Columbia class, setting a pace only imagined a few years ago.
Electric Boat, with shipyards in Groton and Quonset Point, Rhode Island, expects to hire 500 welders this year at starting pay of nearly $22 an hour, White said. Hiring managers use various strategies such as “walk-in Wednesday” sessions at the company’s employment office; job fairs; outreach to high schools, technical schools and colleges; and appearances at events such as Military Appreciation Day in New London in August, a summer boat festival in Hartford and the Travelers Championship in June.
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