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This spring, the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance gave a glimpse into the plans of Baton Rouge’s area industrial plants through 2016. The takeaway: Despite the dip in oil prices, there will be jobs aplenty—a record number, in fact. Here’s a rundown from that report.
21,000 and 25,000
Projected contract labor jobs in 2015
27,000 and 28,000
Projected contract labor jobs in the first half of 2016
2008
Previous record-setting year for contract labor jobs
Top 3 craft worker positions in demand in the Baton Rouge area
1. Welders
2. Pipefitters
3. Instrument-and-electrical technicians
Other specialties in demand
1. Engineers
2. Process technicians
3. Millwrights
4. Scaffold builders
5. insulators
6. Nondestructive-test technicians
7. Laborers
Other industrial labor trends
- Demand for maintenance and small-capital-project workers is expected to remain steady at more than 12,000 jobs through June 2016.
- Industrial plants will need 8,000 contract workers for large capital projects through December. Then, demand is expected increase steadily to about 15,000 in May and June of 2016.
- Demand for contract workers for plant turnarounds, shutdowns and outages will be cyclical. A peak of 5,000 is forecast for October; demand is expected to sink to just 147 in June 2016.
