I went hiking on Sunday with Coach Jen and a couple of others. We put in 5 miles at a local county park. It was a beautiful day for it - sunny and 75. When I came home the Missus had the NASCAR race on and one of the cars had "buildsubmarines.com" on the side of the car. Seems the Navy is going to be building a new batch of nuclear submarines and the contractors are looking to find qualified people to help complete the mission. The build submarine page has an explanation of the mission and a list of job postings.
I checked out the job postings, focusing on the welding jobs primarily. I can see where there is going to be some difficulty filling the positions after perusing the job requirements of several of the postings. One of the postings required an all-position test with 110-18 electrodes. That'll require some preheat, I imagine. That electrode has a tensile strength of 110,000 psi which will require tight control of the welding parameters.
Other postings were looking for the ability to weld with SMAW, GMAW, GTAW on carbon steel, aluminum and titanium. Also, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting, blueprint reading and math skills. One of the listings offered a sign-on bonus and a relocation allowance. Most of the listings didn't specify the hourly wage but I wouldn't be surprised if the wages were low enough to keep highly skilled people from wanting to relocate. I wouldn't figure there are too many people with the desired qualifications that are currently unemployed, either. However, if you want to build submarines, check it out. Might be just the thing for you.
Clever marketing idea. Hope it works out.
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They had one of those cars at Fabtech. I assume for recruiting purposes. The boy passed on checking it out so we didn't stop to talk to them.
He should have paused long enough to check out the welding on the roll cage and frame.
We saw other race cars. Including an automated cell at the Lincoln booth for racecar frames.
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