Worker shortage forces Snowy 2.0 to get creative with recruitment
The massive project needs to fill 300 positions in three months, and another 1500 over its life. That’s creating a boom – and a shortfall – for other employers.
Tim Dean manages a precast factory in the Snowy Mountain town of Cooma, population 7514, and says it is “a great place to work and to live”.
But Dean, an electrician working on the federal government’s $12 billion Snowy Hydro expansion, does not live in Cooma. He grew up there, but now flies in to work a two-week rotation from his home in Port Stephens.
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