Got Skills? Broken Arrow Manufacturers Have Hundreds of Jobs to Fill

• Joe Wertz
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  Joe Wertz was a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma from 2011-2019. He reported on energy and environment issues for national NPR audiences and other national outlets. He previously worked as a managing editor, assistant editor and staff reporter at several major Oklahoma newspapers and studied journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma.

High-tech manufacturing companies in Broken Arrow are in desperate need of some skilled workers.

The city has about 300 manufacturers — the third highest concentration in the state — and companies like Baker Hughes, Hill Manufacturing and NOV Enerflow are hiring, the Tulsa World‘s Zack Stoycoff reports:

“They can’t grow our economy as fast as we want because we just don’t have the workers,” Wes Smithwick, president of the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce, tells the paper.”