Workforce

Thousands of manufacturing workers will be needed in southeastern Connecticut over the next decade to help with submarine production. General Dynamics Electric Boat, based in Groton, has the largest amount of contracted work in the company’s history. Over the next decade, with attrition, they will need to hire about 18,000 people. By the end of this year alone, they are…

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The need for skilled workers at General Dynamics Electric Boat will be a top priority through the next decade, according to the company’s president, as EB prepares to take on a workload they have not experienced since the 1980s. “It has been a full generation since we have been producing submarines at this volume,” said Kevin Graney, the new...

Electric Boat says it will look to hire thousands of workers over the next decade to help build the next generation of submarines.