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I heard that this was happening in Crain's Detroit Business last week.
But now, from Defense News:
USN To Offer Jobs to Former Ford Motor Workers
By ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL
Published: 8 Jun 2009 12:33 Print | Email
The U.S. Navy is planning to make job offers early this week to at least 30 laid-off auto industry workers after attending a job fair in April for former Ford Motor employees, Navy spokesmen said.
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Navy's largest systems command, attended a Detroit-area job fair in late April for the former Ford employees and collected 249 resumes from "very qualified people" in engineering, science and business, said Alan Dean, who heads the Corporate Workforce Office for NAVSEA Warfare Centers.
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These are not positions for former factory floor auto workers, but for engineers who are interested in moving into naval acquisition.
NAVSEA's impetus for attending the April job fair was to fill a demand for vacancies in the Naval Acquisition Associates Program, a new two-year program to transition mid-career workers into jobs in Navy acquisition. The Pentagon's need for people with acquisition management experience was made more acute from hiring freezes in the 1990s, and that need is growing as older workers with experience near retirement, Dean said.
"We had a demand signal of 56 candidates for headquarters," one of NAVSEA's 33 locations, said Douglas Levitas, director of corporate recruiting for NAVSEA. "We saw this as a boon to meeting that demand signal."
"If you look at the resumes that we collected from Detroit, they have the skills that we are actually trying to stimulate growth in, whether it's Lean 6 Sigma practices, engineering integration, contract management, modeling and simulation, data analysis," Dean said. "If an engineer happened to work with water pumps or worked with shock and vibration or worked with robotics, we have elements of our effort in producing ships and sustaining ships that address all of those specific areas."
The hires from Detroit are former team leaders in auto manufacturing and design, so they "fit perfectly" into NAVSEA's shipbuilding programs, said Dave Sivillo, deputy director of the NAVSEA university research business office
"They have a lot of material engineers in the auto industry," who aim to reduce vehicle weight to increase fuel efficiency, Sivillo said. "They use composite materials. We use composite materials on shipbuilding. So that's a direct correlation where their experience for materials can be applied to shipbuilding."
With "Navsea being the organization it is, ... building Navy warships, which includes every aspect of engineering a product, very similar to engineering an automobile, just on a much larger scale; ... we needed to ensure that we tap into as many of these different types of events as possible," Dean said.
NAVSEA plans to share the resumes from the job fair throughout its organization, and also attend a job fair for former employees of General Motors and Chrysler this fall, Levitas said. Salaries for the positions in the NAVSEA acquisition program are in the "same range" as positions held by the former auto workers who will receive offers this week, Sivillo said.
But now, from Defense News:
USN To Offer Jobs to Former Ford Motor Workers
By ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL
Published: 8 Jun 2009 12:33 Print | Email
The U.S. Navy is planning to make job offers early this week to at least 30 laid-off auto industry workers after attending a job fair in April for former Ford Motor employees, Navy spokesmen said.
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Navy's largest systems command, attended a Detroit-area job fair in late April for the former Ford employees and collected 249 resumes from "very qualified people" in engineering, science and business, said Alan Dean, who heads the Corporate Workforce Office for NAVSEA Warfare Centers.
Related TopicsAmericas
Naval Warfare
These are not positions for former factory floor auto workers, but for engineers who are interested in moving into naval acquisition.
NAVSEA's impetus for attending the April job fair was to fill a demand for vacancies in the Naval Acquisition Associates Program, a new two-year program to transition mid-career workers into jobs in Navy acquisition. The Pentagon's need for people with acquisition management experience was made more acute from hiring freezes in the 1990s, and that need is growing as older workers with experience near retirement, Dean said.
"We had a demand signal of 56 candidates for headquarters," one of NAVSEA's 33 locations, said Douglas Levitas, director of corporate recruiting for NAVSEA. "We saw this as a boon to meeting that demand signal."
"If you look at the resumes that we collected from Detroit, they have the skills that we are actually trying to stimulate growth in, whether it's Lean 6 Sigma practices, engineering integration, contract management, modeling and simulation, data analysis," Dean said. "If an engineer happened to work with water pumps or worked with shock and vibration or worked with robotics, we have elements of our effort in producing ships and sustaining ships that address all of those specific areas."
The hires from Detroit are former team leaders in auto manufacturing and design, so they "fit perfectly" into NAVSEA's shipbuilding programs, said Dave Sivillo, deputy director of the NAVSEA university research business office
"They have a lot of material engineers in the auto industry," who aim to reduce vehicle weight to increase fuel efficiency, Sivillo said. "They use composite materials. We use composite materials on shipbuilding. So that's a direct correlation where their experience for materials can be applied to shipbuilding."
With "Navsea being the organization it is, ... building Navy warships, which includes every aspect of engineering a product, very similar to engineering an automobile, just on a much larger scale; ... we needed to ensure that we tap into as many of these different types of events as possible," Dean said.
NAVSEA plans to share the resumes from the job fair throughout its organization, and also attend a job fair for former employees of General Motors and Chrysler this fall, Levitas said. Salaries for the positions in the NAVSEA acquisition program are in the "same range" as positions held by the former auto workers who will receive offers this week, Sivillo said.
