US Company Wants to Recruit Welders from Mexico

by megustasoldarmucho · January 24, 2015

Loadcraft Industries, of Brady Texas, is a proud American company. They want to hire locals from the state or from the within the US but they have a hard time meeting the demand for welders due to the boom of the Texas oil industry.

Reece McIver, chief operating officer of Loadcraft, said that the company is looking to Mexico as a short term solution for the shortage in welders. The company plans to hire more than a hundred welders from Monclova, Mexico under the H2B visa that will allow them to work in Brady and Brownwood plants. This was according to McIver before the council members of Brownwood City. The visa lets American companies to hire foreign workers countries as long as they don’t work in the agricultural industry.

The city council approved the request made by Loadcraft to place two to four manufactured homes on the company’s property that will house the temporary workers. The homes will have four bedrooms and can be used by eight to sixteen occupants who will split 12 hour shifts.

The city council also approved the waiver that lets the company place the temporary homes on the company’s property for a maximum of one year. City Mayor Stephen Haynes said the local company needs to fill the demands for welders. It answered the concerns made by the public with regards to Loadcraft’s hiring foreign workers.

According to a recent survey, more than a hundred welding jobs are required to be filled in the Brownwood area. Loadcraft has done everything to lure welders. They increased wages, advertised statewide and across the United States, and worked with Texas State Technical College. But still the jobs have been unfilled.

Loadcraft, which specializes in design and manufacturing of oil Drilling and Workover Rigs and Heavy Haul Trailers, Dollies, Beams, and Multi-Axle Components to support the Heavy Haul and Oilfield Transportation Industries, has hired workers from Mexico is a temporary solution but the company still needs to find a long term solution for their welder shortage.