Canadian battery companies are scrambling to staff entire assembly lines as they face a talent crunch that could slow the sector’s ambitions
will be a 30,000-plus-worker gap in the automotive industry by 2030, starting with students as young as middle school. The Stellantis battery plant in Windsor, still a rumour when the program was created, exemplified the “exact purpose” of the website, said Raed Kadri, head of the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network, adding at a January press conference that he was seeing “rapidly broadening” skill requirements for areas like mineral extraction and powertrain chemistry.
She said talent is one of the biggest challenges she expects to face over the next year, after doubling her staff in 2020 and again in 2021. She said her company needs not only strong candidates from academics, but those that have experience innovating in an industrial setting. “To put it into a battery the purity levels we have to get to are, like, 99.9999 per cent purity. That’s where I find where the talent is most lacking: we don’t know a lot of people that can do that. … We can do it at bench scale, but can we do it at an industrial scale? That’s an area where I think a lot more training and consideration needs to be given.”Amanda Hall
the Information and Communications Technology Council and Propulsion Québec that research and development was the area they anticipated the most employment growth, naming software developers as well as mechanical, electrical and chemical engineers as the most in-demand roles.Article content
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