Electric Boat president predicts annual hiring of 5,000 employees for years to come

Electric Boat President Kevin M. Graney told state and national legislators Thursday in a morning briefing that the company expects to add about 5,000 positions this year to the local workforce in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

“We are hiring across the board,” Graney said during the EB legislative briefing at Mystic Marriott attended by about 150 local officials. “We have careers in every line of work you can imagine.”

Graney said more than half the hires would be in the trades, including about 1,900 in Quonset Point, R.I., and 1,100 at the Groton shipyard. U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, added that the remaining 2,000 hires would be composed of engineers and designers, most of whom would be working locally in southeastern Connecticut.

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