How bad is the turnover at your plant?
I probably just need to vent here if I’m being honest, but I’m also genuinely curious if this is an industry wide issue or not. I got into this field two years ago because it’s stable but we absolutely cannot keep any employees.
We only have 4 operators here. Two day shift (I’m a dayshift) and two nightshift, we work 12s to keep the plant running 24/7. In my two years here we have had 6 different nightshift operators. Yes, 6 lol we get someone in, train them, and within a few months they’re gone. I know it’s an industry issue where people will come in and get licensed and go to a higher paying plant, but these guys aren’t getting licensed and leaving to another plant, they’re just leaving to a different type of job all together lol
Every time we post a job it takes literal weeks to get a single applicant. It gets posted on indeed, LinkedIn Etc. The plant pays much higher than the average wage (in general) for the area and we post in the job we don’t expect any experience. I just don’t get it lol I get it’s nightshift but holy cow
We are not the highest paying plant in the area but we are the average wage in the area for plants for sure. This job is not that hard…. We have it pretty cake here to be honest.
In my two years here I’ve maybe had 3 months total of working my true dayshift, otherwise I’ve been on some type rotating schedule to cover the vacant second shifts.
I’ll give the company credit though, they gave us authorization to hire another person to have on “standby” as a floater operator to cover those shifts if they happen, but again we have zero applicants in two weeks lol
I’m have both WW and DW licenses and I’m at the point I’m looking for basically any plant that doesn’t need to be staffed 24/7 because I cannot do these rotating shifts anymore. It is a regular occurrence for me to get off work at 5am and then have to be back at work at 5am 24hrs later
Anyway, that’s enough of my rant lol what’s turnover like at your plant?