Electric Boat president can’t stress it enough: ‘We’re hiring!’
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24 Jan 2022
Community Interest, Maritime Industry, Workforce
Kevin Graney, Electric Boat’s president, has given his advertising people the word.
Over the next few weeks, he better not see a televised NFL game that fails to feature ads about EB’s eagerness — its need — to hire workers.
As residents of southeastern Connecticut have known for some time now, EB’s been on a roll, having landed billions of dollars in government contracts for submarine work that promise to keep its shipyards humming for decades, assuming it can hire and train the thousands of skilled workers it needs to get the job done.
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