Why CT’s Electric Boat is hiring and building, as other shipyards struggle to retain workers

Why Electric Boat is hiring and building, as other shipyards struggle to retain workers

Shipbuilder Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut, is proving again to be the exception as the U.S. Navy faces another hurdle in its massive effort to rapidly rebuild the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet: workforce retention.

Why CT’s Electric Boat is hiring and building, as other shipyards struggle to retain workers

Shipbuilder Electric Boat in Groton is proving again to be the exception as the U.S. Navy faces another hurdle in its massive effort to rapidly rebuild the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet: workforce retention. Electric Boat, the Pentagon’s prime contractor on the strategically important Columbia and Virginia class submarine programs, has managed to retain 89 percent of new recruits while hiring at an unprecedented annual rate that has hit 5,000 in …

Op-Ed: Change and opportunity in U.S. shipbuilding's new era

For organizations looking to work with U.S. shipbuilding, understanding the requirements will be crucial to success, writes Darren Guillory, SSI ShipConstructor Will the next decade be a golden age for American shipyards? From the clouded perspective of 2025 it is hard to discern whether plans for a new shipbuilding office will result in new, domestically built ships on the water. Even the most optimistic analysis recognises the challenges that …