Pit & Quarry, July 2018
LABOR they were reviewed every six months and counseled As for our retention rate we usually lose one or two at the beginning but we usually end up with about eight by the time were done with a two year cycle So its helped us a lot rather than trying to take people from other places and things like that JOHN GARRISON SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES Its kind of the same way on the manufacturers side Its kind of a twofold thing You need workforce to manufacture the machines You need good welders and good assembly people people that are able to work your shop and actually Garrison manufacture the equipment On the market facing side you need engineers to develop that product and you need field service technicians to support it I think in our industry the biggest thing we struggle with is getting enough engineers We have a lot of engineers but it always seems to be bottom leg especially when you get busy To get engineers who are interested in this industry or know anything about it you have to do a lot of recruiting at the college level and you spend most of your time educating on what the industry is and less time about what kind of mechanical engineering theyre going to be doing On the manufacturing side its difficult to find people who want to work in manufacturing There has been a lot of work done here recently Were talking about vocational programs and schools Mike Rowe has been beneficial with all that hes done in starting his foundation Its brought back the idea that its okay to be a plumber or a welder again and actually some of those are really high paying jobs We have our own certified weld school Well bring young people in and theyve got virtual video games You can gauge their interests pretty quickly if they want to do it And then weve got the classroom setup so you can actually weld and weld certify We found out pretty quickly who the people are that are good at it or interested in it and then you can train them enter them and get them working in the shop for you Another big thing with the younger workforces the word opportunity has been used a few times They want In a game that relies on consistent performance Rammer hammers from Allied Construction are the perfect utility players Rammer delivers simple operation better fl ow control blank fi ring protection and superior lube systems everything youd expect from Allied an experienced player VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE ALLIEDCP ALLIEDCP com 8003211046 38 PIT QUARRY July 2018 pitandquarry com
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