Ford-Chef sagt, er habe 5.000 offene Mechaniker-Stellen mit sechsstelligen Gehältern aufgrund des Mangels an manuell qualifizierten Arbeitskräften: „Wir stecken in unserem Land in Schwierigkeiten“
https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/ford-ceo-manufacturing-jobs-trade-schools-we-are-in-trouble-in-our-country/
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Looks like you need a good training program to get young eager future mechanics up to speed.
Then train them. It’s not rocket science. Pay them 80k a year until they’re proficient.
Who believes this garbage? It’s not the government’s job to train your labor or provide you with cheap foreign slaves, I mean H1Bs.
they also make vehicles so difficult to work on, they have to train people who already know how to do it.
Or, you know, he’s fucking lying. 100k is far from entry level mechanic work, and welcome to long shifts six days a week and constant exposure to carcinogens.
Yeah, but let’s blame it on immigrants and the Chinese.
“All we are asking for our entry level mechanics is 10 years experience, a certification, and a masters degree!”
Former mechanic here… that job pays 2.5x as much now?
Yea, you just need to have 5 + years of experience
Salaries = hourly with overtime
Sounds like he asked A.I. about his company because he sure as fuck doesn’t know.
Perhaps if your company and it’s executives paid the same tax rate as your grandfather’s time (70%+ ) the country could afford to provide tech school education to kids to help fill those jobs.
Also, perhaps if you provided a pension that allowed people to retired after 25 years of manual fucking labor people may want to take those jobs. But 120k a year for a job that destroys your body isn’t a great marketing point. Not when you can make 120k a year using your brain doing non manual labor.
Also, quit making cars you have to completely disassemble to do anything and instead make cars designed to be worked on. Spent so many years making cars disposable and you wonder why nobody wants to work on them? Cars aren’t that complex, they got wheels, brakes, engines, steering, basic passenger suspension… this is all shit we’ve been doing for 100 years now, you have no excuses. Sure there have been emissions requirements, but nothing injectors and o2 sensors and cats havne’t long since solved. Come on.
Trump will import them with his 100k visa’s.
OMG that poor CEO! Someone get that man a raise and a yacht, he looks like he’s worked really hard after that press conference.
Well when those positions require 4 years of schooling and 5 years of experience of course there is a shortage. Tired of these CEOs echoing this nonsense but doing everything in their power to create it. The sad part is, I probably know more about cars and engines and how they work than half the people they’ll hire into those positions, but because I didn’t take the time and money to get a piece of paper they’d never even consider me.
How dare anyone even suggest a company should offering training for their employees! Have you thought of the short term quarterly expenses?!
Nah, what he has are poorly run shops with bad benefits and shitty managers. No opportunity for training and education. Shit customers.
As for factory workers they always outsource that shit to Mexico
We told an entire generation that the only chance they had in life was to go to college and spend 100k+ on an education or else youll be lucky to get a job as a garbage man (which they didnt mention is a solid living). Wtf did we expect would happen?
Does this really have to get posted as a new discussion every bloody day.
„He noted, for example, learning to take a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck takes at least five years.“
Or maybe you need design it better.
Or cars have become much more complicated with technology that you can’t just be mechanical anymore you need to also be technical with certifications and continuous education. Which has driven a number of mom and pop shops out of business. They did this to themselves.
But at least you got them tax breaks you voted for.
If only there was a system that allowed employers to train staff up to be suitable for the roles they need to fill.
For profit education and the destruction of labor unions has put us into this position
this reminds me of silicon valley where they made the factory in america, but because the town had to pull from the infrastructure budgets, there were no roads or firefighters to put out the fire at the factory hahaha
If there aren’t 5,000 partially skilled mechanics at Ford he could be promoting and providing training for, he’s a lying sack of shit.
The real headline is „There is a severe shortage of companies willing to properly nurture talent“
„We are in troubhe in our country“ **because his executive pay package is more important than worker upskill packages.**
Do I need to say it louder for the people in the back?
Looked at their website – 229 open positions for keyword „Mechanic“ in skilled trades, US Professionals has about 500.
One thing though – professionals include engineers, don’t think it qualifies as a mechanic.
So 5k figure seems like BS unless they have one job opening for multiple positions.
>He noted, for example, learning to take a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck takes at least five years
Feels like your product sucks if this is the case. Seems like it’s also a very specific skill that ford should be training people to perform.
Super easy fix here, create an internal apprenticeship program. Pay people well to get them on board and train them up. It’s called investing in your workers.
>jobs in the trades like those at Ford “made our country what it is,” and allowed people like his grandfather—who worked on the company’s flagship Model T and was employee 389 at the company—to have good lives.
I’m sure his grandfather had years of experience from work on other cars when he joined the company to work on the first mass produced car… right? Oh, no? He was trained on the job?!… So fucking do that!
Then once you do that pay them enough to have the same life as your grandpa did. 1 salary supporting a wife and at least 2 kids, probably more, and a house, and his own car.
Ford CEO: Best I can do is H1B visas and pay people minimum wage, please make H1B visas cheaper again!
Well then hop in there buddy! Show ‚em how it’s done!
he can just AI his way out of this.
Give me a 40 hour work week with no warranty BS and I’ll train to be a tech for a 6 figure annual income.
Now raise your hand if you have consistently voted for the party who devalues education at every turn. Did your company hand over millions to them every single time you could? You have precisely yourself to blame.
*Press X to doubt*
I’m sorry but none of this shit is that hard. Anybody can learn how to do any of these jobs in a couple years with average intelligence. The shortage is because of other things, not because there aren’t people willing to learn.
Isn’t that the issue with most companies?? When the employee gets to a high position with high skill they get fired for cheaper outsourced labour or local cheap labour with existing employees pulling double duty teaching new employees?? There’s only so much skilled workers willing to deal with that crap.
Well, I guess the first issue would be that these job, if real, aren’t even listed on the Ford careers website that I can see 🤷♀️
When I worked on a drilling rig, we hired on 3 Ford mechanics from the same dealer. They were top notch mechanics and had enough of being treated poorly so they all jumped ship at the same time. I’m sure that dealer was absolutely scrambling and complaining about how no one wants to work his amazing 6 figure jobs.
So they don’t do apprenticeships in the US?
If Ford is so desperate for these roles, does it not make sense to train the next generation of Ford mechanics?
Shilling for Drumpf?
People need an avenue to write off tool costs. It’s incredible how many tools are needed upfront to work on cars
Ford CEO can get fucked.
Are you *sure* you didn’t just fire everyone to replace them with robots and are now regretting it?
Make the Ford’s CEOs KPI to include attracting and retaining talents at the entry level roles at Ford. That is entry level mechanics, entry level assembly workers, entry level clerks and entry level customer service reps. Simples really.
All these arguments about training or not. Ford has the money – pair with local community organizations and support their needs to create a Ford certified program. High schools have mechanics or extended education in every single community.
Here’s an idea. Pay people to learn how to be a Ford mechanic with a guaranteed employment contract after training is completed. Can I be CEO now?
I interviewed at a manufacturing plant paying skilled trades $20-35 (carpenters, electricians, equipment operators) an hour. they must’ve had 100 people applying for ~25 positions in this 2nd hiring stage. Anecdotal experience says there is not a lack of labor for even modest paying jobs.
I love how corporations stopped training people. They used to have robust training programs to develop their own workforce. Now they expect WORKERS to find their own training and then they bitch that they can’t find workers with the skills they want.
TRAIN THEM YOURSELVES AND QUITCHER BITCHIN’!
Harsh treatment and low pay aren’t very attractive.
Theres absolutely no fucking way this is true, and if it is then thats Fords own fault for not having the proper path to training up high school graduates. Shit Toyota has literal children practicing mechanic and assembly labor.
Its almost like corporations could see better results if they invested in communities instead of endless hookers and blow.