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Supply and demand: Need the workers? Pay more. Sucks if accounting 'only budgeted for $15/hour'.
Not sure what they pay, but Rolls-Royce has a new plant in the county and they are investing some $$ by providing new machinery for the local community college. They gave them a new Mazak horizontal machining center (Nexus 4000-II) worth maybe $200K. I think they are providing a new CMM as well. My son is taking the Mazak class now. His instructor is quite young and I don't think he has any Mazak experience - he's a student intern. Just read the manual.
The pay runs from $15 to $21 an hour, a relatively good wage in this part of the country.
Pay for skilled operator-programmers runs from $18 to $28 per hour
“The problem is as soon as we get someone in, one of our other guys will jump ship,” said Tyson De Jonge, engineering manager at Engine Power Components. “They get better offers.”
I have no pity for many of these companies.
Supply and demand: Need the workers? Pay more. Sucks if accounting 'only budgeted for $15/hour'. I only budgeted $10,000 for a car. Ford hasn't dropped my 'Stang off yet...
Also, HR departments are clueless, and filter out all sorts of qualified applcants because they don't have the magic buzzwords or narrow skillset on the resume. There are such things as transferable skills.
I know a farm kid with tractor repair experience, some mechanical assembly experience, and experience programming macros for spreadsheets (farms are complicated these days). He could slide right into a CNC operator position with minimal training. G43, G54, M8, etc. He would get in a day, and some company would be happy that he knows how to tighten a bolt.
I know a soon-to-be theatre major who would do quality work, but "built set and lit a production of XYZ Play" doesn't cut it with HR, even if the grid had 200-300 amps of lamps hanging, even if he was trusted to rig a fly system...
I know an artist who hand-carves and hand-registers multiple printing blocks against eachother to a few thou...And would have no trouble getting a part properly against the vise stop. Right there is half the battle for many entry-level CNC operator trainees.
These companies need to start looking at transferable skills, personality traits (attention to detail, quick comprehension, not on meth etc.), and stop letting HR use buzzwords or overly strict skills criteria to screen people. Yes, they might take some training, but the right people are ready, willing and waiting for the opportunity.
Oh, and supply/demand. It changes wages...Not just for C-level MBAs.
/rant.
[Have only read the first few posts so far, but]
Saw a billboard on 23 on the way home from Columbus yesterday advertising for machinists and welders (I think). Don't recall the name or the town the shop was in. I had hoped to be able to remember - and to post it, but ...
No mention of pay scale.
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I scored a row B/center ticket for The Possum for last weekend!
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