Most employers aren’t planning to hire more people next year. Many of them still can’t fill the jobs they have. Both things are true at once, and the gap between … Read More
Here’s What HR Leaders Need to Know When a new copper or lithium project breaks ground, it doesn’t just create jobs. It competes for the same geologists, environmental professionals, engineers, … Read More
When your 2027 production budget gets approved, how many single-point human dependencies are you leaving un-audited on your plant floor? Every Q4, executive leadership teams across mining, semiconductor manufacturing, and … Read More
The numbers behind North America’s mining engineering shortage are stark enough that they’re worth stating plainly before anything else. The United States has 15 accredited mining and mineral engineering programs. … Read More
With over 33% of Canada’s mining workforce eligible to retire in the coming years, production targets are no longer just an engineering problem. They are a talent problem. Mining leaders … Read More
July is the right time to ask a blunt question: is your workforce strategy built for what the next six months actually look like, or is it still shaped by … Read More
Canada’s mining sector doesn’t have a demand problem. It has a people problem. Projects are being approved, capital is flowing, commodity prices are at historic highs, and operations across the … Read More
The word “temporary” has always undersold what a contingent workforce actually does in industrial operations. For mining, manufacturing, and semiconductor companies, contract and flex labour isn’t a stopgap. It’s a … Read More
Most operations leaders track time-to-fill as an HR metric. The ones who’ve lived through a bad vacancy know it’s something else entirely. An open role on a manufacturing floor, a … Read More
The permits are approved. The capital is committed. The construction timelines are set. What BC mining operations are discovering now is that the hardest part of executing on a record … Read More
