What Does It Take to Work in the Nuclear Energy Industry?

What Does It Take to Work in the Nuclear Energy Industry?

by vbarq

Shaw Power Group's Lacy Kiser (Click to enlarge.)

With an employee population that is soon approaching retirement, the nuclear energy industry must hire approximately 25,000 more workers by 2015. Lacy Kiser, vice president of human resources and administration for Shaw’s Power Group, has been working around-the-clock to find qualified candidates to construct, plan and manage the country’s first newly permitted reactors since 1978. With work under way to build new reactors at Southern Company’s Plant Vogtle in Georgia and at SCE&G’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina, the projects will create approximately 3,500 construction jobs during peak construction. This means Kiser, who joined Shaw’s Power Group six years ago following a career in the U.S. Marine Corps, has his work cut out for him.