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Newport News Shipbuilding Has Momentum In Job Hiring

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

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Newport News Shipbuilding Has Momentum In Job Hiring

Launch of the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) in Dec. 2019. (Photo: HII)

Labor force trends continue in the right direction at Newport News Shipbuilding and the builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines expects to hit its hiring goals this year while attrition rates are flattening, the company’s top human resources official said on Wednesday. Newport News plans to hire about 2,200 skilled tradesmen in 2023, down from a goal of 2,700 in 2022 and more than 3,000 annually in 2018 and 2019 when the shipbuilder was ramping production of the Navy’s…

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