1. Yes!
That´s what they Really Really want.
2.
Of course it will happen, and easily.
Tesla, SpaceX, Google prototypes, Apple prototypes, hire these kinds of guys by the dozen every year.
3.
Calibrate your pay.
A good guy of spec 1. will cost 100k-150k + bennies and be easily worth it.
Most should be offered some form of profit share, as this will easily pay back the company their total cost, from the first 6 months onward.
I am one of those people.
Endless people on this list are also one of those people.
Shop owners or managers or all-rounders who have run large complex projects or shops semi independently.
Example, anecdote:
I am training a very smart guy, right now, who will become one of those people within 6 months.
He is on salary, and I expect to pay him 2-3x more per month within 6-12 months.
Somewhere around 60k€ == 80k-100k€ and up..
I told him, as soon as You can do this independently, you will be making me 5x your salary, whatever it is later.
? .. Why on earth would I pay You less, and make less, and lose my big investment in the training ??
You could always go next door if I don´t pay a suitable wage, at least.
(A very skilled guy, professional, 18 years experience in the trades, just needs machinist experience and cad/cam / programming. Good welder and great fab. I can teach the machinist and cadcam in my sleep).
My expectation is to make more than 500k net profit per year from his work, while paying him 100k€ + bennies.
His value and salary more than doubles from best-before -- and we both make out really well.
I will be giving stock or options or similar as well 8 months out.
Why would I not ?
We both make out really well.
Good workers are very valuable.
Smart managers may/can make them really profitable.
The manager should/must make them profitable -- not low-cost.
High-cost is vastly more profitable for the enterprise.
At 5x net profit the cost, a higher-cost employer is much better than a lower-cost one.
And much more motivated, eager, honest, easier to work with.
For now, we both work 12 hour days, for peanuts, relatively.
Work, fab, learn, and training.
My risk is losing 6 months of extra hard work from me if he walks out.
While getting extra hard work and fab stuff from him.
Fair enough.
1.
For hiring, it sounds like you want an engineer who can do manual machining, run and program a CNC Mill, Lathe, and waterjet, is personable, has good communication skills, and can weld.
2.
That's just not going to happen.
3.
Heck even finding someone with two of those skills would be a challenge.