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Originally Posted by Tcoat
We have been looking for a Manufacturing Engineer for our one plant for 7 months now! Every applicant we have given an offer too has come back and said "nope, sorry, my current employer beat your offer". This tells me they were not truly interested in the first place and were just using us to play the game. The other thing that we run into is that most of the other engineers we spoke with want to be in product development or some other desk only type of position and when they find out they would have some hands on work they just walk away.
Like anywhere there are no "solid bet" professions here but the pool of qualified electricians and millwrights seems to shrink even more every year. Nobody seems to want to go down that road anymore even though (here at least) they tend to make about 20% more than the people that are supervising them!
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It's not that new engineers don't want to use their hands it's that they can't hide behind Solidworks and their horrible lack of knowledge and thinking ability would be exposed. I had one at our place claim that the reason holes were dimensioned wrong was because of Solidworks' 'Hole Wizard' was acting buggy. Not because he is a lazy idiot.
The certified millwright thing is becoming a problem because of specialization. The job that I do is closest to that of a millwright, but because I don't do welding or hydraulics, even with an IP Red Seal guy to sign off my hours, I can't get my ticket. But I'm training the ones we hire from outside on stuff like PLC, wiring and servos. As well as pneumatics, which the should know but generally don't.
It's a nuisance for guys like me that are more modernized technically in the millwright field but still under qualified. I'm actually considering part time work with welding and hydraulics just to get my hours signed off.