General Manager of Resolute’s Thunder Bay mill promises 300 jobs
March 5th, 2012 | Posted in Employment | 3 comments »
Doug Murray, general manager Resolute Forest Products in Thunder Bay, Ontario said he is expecting to hire at least 300 skilled trades-people in the coming years.
Upcoming jobs:
- 90 jobs when the Ignace sawmill reopens in late 2013 or early 2014
- 80 jobs will be created under the $100 million capital investment the company intends to make in Northwestern Ontario between now and 2017
- More jobs at a planned sawmill expansion in Thunder Bay
- Jobs at a condensing turbine project that should be ready to start up by the fall
- 80% of its workforce is expected to retire over the next 3-4 years
Murray says the forest industry isn’t dead.
“We’ve already started hiring a number of people last year and this year.”
“We’re going to need a lot of people … It’s going to be like what was happening here in the ‘60s. When the first kraft mill came in, in 1965 and the second kraft mill came in 1975, there was a huge influx of hiring.
“That second influx of hiring in 1975, those are the people that are retiring now. So we’ll have another huge influx of people coming in to replace them. It just so happens that they’re all crunched in, because of the size of the mill now and where we’ve been over the last few years.”
~Doug Murray
Read the article from TBNewsWatch:
Jobs coming
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Two problems I see with this GM’s sugar coated fairy tale land of wonder…..
Don’t count on any promises from anyone in any facet of the paper business……anyone can whip crazy talk out of the air like this.
And #2. No one with any common sense would take a job with this outfit…EVER!
Ok, the Abi workforce has taken a lot of blows recently, but come on… do you have to spit on every positive story that comes out too? There will be a line up to get in the door and after five years 300 families will be making a comfortable living. Not to mention it is a commitment to the mill. As much as you want to believe every work out of head office is lies, I’m pretty sure they want to keep a little cred in the customer’s eyes and won’t be throwing statements around just for sh*ts and giggles.
I don’t believe that there will be 300 permanent jobs. Read it closely. Probably over half of these jobs will be construction jobs for tradespeople. They will be laid off after the projects are finished. Don’t get me wrong, some jobs are better than no jobs but don’t expect 300 happy families in 5 years.