Idle hands engineer a job scheme
The think-it-through crowd (consultants) and the git-r-done crowd (engineers) have long been partners, creating opportunity for themselves and businesses through a synergy of plans and action. Now, the two are moving to better wed those with electrical engineering and semi-conductor expertise and business development experts to break the logjam of joblessness in high-tech skilled trades.
That is the idea behind the launching of the Engineering Consultant Services Group (ECS) in conjunction with the Hudson Valley Technology Development Center Inc. (HVTDC) in Fishkill.
ECS provides engineering expertise with their team of experienced professionals to serve companies with projects on the drawing board or in the pipeline, but lacking the resources to hire an in-house engineering department to bring the product to production.
“In today’s unique economic environment it is more important than ever to find innovative ways to utilize the talented unemployed professional workforce of the Hudson Valley” said Tom Philips, executive director of the HVTDC. ”We think we’ve found one. On a lot of fronts this makes a lot of sense.”
The Hudson Valley has a wealth of talent in engineering for computers and electronics, Phillips said, especially after the closure last year of NXP Semiconductors in Fishkill.
Phillips said many of the professionals who lost jobs when NXP closed are longtime residents of the area who do not want to move elsewhere for employment and who have decided to create their own jobs here, doing work that could benefit companies anywhere in the seven counties of the Hudson Valley, New York, the Northeast or even nationally.
“We are advocating outsourcing to the Hudson Valley,” said Phillips.
HVTDC will handle the business end of the project, arranging contracts for ECS through its client base and providing administrative services from office space and invoices as needed. The engineers from ECS will travel to where they are needed to complete projects for clients with ideas needing production.
The idea was originated by Bob Incerto, now principal engineer for the HVTDC ECS, with several colleagues let go from NXP and the staff at HVTDC.
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