Heavy industry is the backbone of economies around the world, critical to automotive production, construction, the energy sector, and everything in between. But many heavy industries are facing worker shortages.

There are more than 400,000 open manufacturing jobs in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.¹ With an aging workforce retiring and an insufficient pipeline of skilled workers to replace them, nearly 1.9 million manufacturing jobs may go unfilled over the next decade.²