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HII\u2019s Newport News Shipbuilding is taking its recruitment efforts on the road as it looks to bring in more employees<\/a> to expand its nuclear shipbuilding workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Virginia-based shipyard met its hiring goals<\/a> in 2023 and is on track to meet them again in 2024, Xavier Beale, vice president of human resources at Newport News Shipbuilding, told Defense News in a May 23 interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The yard plans to hire 3,000 skilled tradespeople this year, but it needs to bring in 19,000 over the next decade, Beale said, adding that the existing training pipelines in the Hampton Roads region is unable to funnel enough new employees toward Newport News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beale said volume is only one issue when it comes to recruiting. When the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> struck the United States in 2020, a wave of highly experienced workers retired. Replacing those master tradespeople with recent high school graduates has affected productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it\u2019s difficult to find talent with decades of shipbuilding experience, the next best thing might be finding talent with years of experience as welders or electricians outside of the shipbuilding-industrial base, Beale said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, the shipyard is adjusting its recruiting efforts. It recently launched an initiative with North Carolina government entities to attract and train skilled trade workers who could continue to reside in North Carolina and take buses to Newport News each day. Beale said more than 1,000 North Carolina residents already work at the yard, and he sees \u201cgreat untapped potential in that bordering state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nationally, to reach skilled machinists, electricians, welders, pipefitters and more who have worked in sectors other than the shipbuilding-industrial base, \u201cwe\u2019re broadening our typical recruiting area,\u201d Beale said. \u201cWe\u2019ve identified regions within the nation that may be ripe for harvesting talent, and we\u2019re being intentional with our \u2019Build It\u2019 campaign<\/a> to reach and penetrate within those areas, specifically targeting those experienced workforce.\u201d That campaign is meant to highlight various jobs at the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beale said his team is working on digital outreach, and also sending people across the country to connect with local workforce councils and trade associations in its aim to find experienced workers who might consider moving to Virginia to work on submarines and aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus on hiring experienced workers is twofold. It partly involves efforts to make up for the knowledge and experience lost in the wave of retirements during the pandemic. The other part has to do with new hires without experience \u2014 those straight out of high school or coming from other industries \u2014 who tend to encounter \u201ca bit of a culture shock\u201d at the shipyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beale said the company is doing what it can to prepare new hires for that, but attrition in the trades has been tough to bring down, especially when the culture shock combines with \u201cthe dramatic escalation of wages in the service industry post-COVID, as well as the escalation with minimum wage rates post-COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been compression in what historically has been a gap between what we can offer and what\u2019s offered there, so that is a challenge. But we\u2019re doing our best to navigate through that,\u201d Beale added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the company might spend 16 weeks training a recent high school graduate who may not stick around for long, the experienced welders and electricians need less training and for the most part understand what they\u2019re getting themselves into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven if it\u2019s not on our platforms, or quite frankly not even our industry \u2014 if they have the aptitude and the experience, the time-to-talent acceleration is going to be much quicker than an inexperienced person,\u201d Beale said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A welder works on a steel panel at Newport News Shipbuilding’s Norfolk campus, which opened in November 2023. (Ashley Cowan\/HII)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not to say the company has stopped trying to entice locals to join training programs and come work at the yard. In fact, Beale said, some of the U.S. Navy\u2019s funding for the submarine-industrial base in recent years went to the Hampton Roads Workforce Council to coordinate local efforts with high schools, community colleges and trade schools to train new workers and place them in jobs at Newport News and its local suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beale said the council over the last 18 to 24 months improved its understanding of regional labor demands, the current capacity to train new workers, and what it would take to increase that output. He said the Navy\u2019s funds have been \u201cinstrumental in building capacity within our region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, he worries the local area can\u2019t meet all the yard\u2019s hiring needs as it expands from about 26,000 personnel today to more than 30,000 in the early 2030s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have reached into the region quite heavily. We still know there\u2019s some untapped potential there, especially in underserved communities and in our rural communities that we\u2019re reaching out to more. But the broader recruitment strategy [looks] at importing more talent into our region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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