Pit & Quarry, April 2017
EVENT ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE break it down into two categories Youve got professional people who we are trying to hire our engineers and so on and so forth and youve got your laborers operators And what I see is a big gap between those on the professional side that have the degrees MBAs and those that are the operators And so weve got to figure out what a trade school can do for us to get both of those guys connected both areas connected And the industry is not glamorous We work a lot of hours Somehow weve got to figure that out and get the millennials to come to us FRANCELJ One of our successes has been to go with former military personnel We really focused on the recruitment of them They have a good work ethic and are accustomed to working in the early mornings Weve had a lot of success in retaining those employees in our industry because of the ability to develop them into managers So I definitely recommend that producers and other companies hire from the military MARKLE As a millennial myself I can tell you a little bit about what excited me about the industry That might be helpful to give you guys an idea of what people look for I came from an engineering background so I cant really speak for the labor force but I can tell you something that really drew me to the company I work for now is the fact that they did seem very modern in terms of their approach to problems And I learned about all the issues that our customers had and how we solve them So if you expose yourselves and say These are the problems we encounter on a daily basis and these are the creative solutions we Markle put forward to answer those issues I think thats something that really excites engineers that are younger MELLOTT Were going on our third round of the nine month program Every day they do two hours in the class and then two hours of actual hands on out with the service techs and with the quarry operators And so it gives them that kind of knowledge of exactly what this job is going to be like And then at the end of this nine month period if they pass we have the option to extend them an opportunity to work for us And we have a 100 percent retention Francelj 26 PIT QUARRY April 2017 pitandquarry com
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