Stop “Post and Hope” Hiring: Build a Talent System That Works
Finding people is hard. Keeping the right people can be even harder. The NFFS Talent Pipeline Program helps foundries build a repeatable system to recruit, onboard, develop, and retain the workforce they need.
A Workforce System Built for Foundries
For many foundries, workforce challenges show up in familiar ways: too few qualified applicants, new hires who leave early, supervisors who are stretched thin, and constant pressure to keep production moving while trying to build a stronger team.
The problem is not simply hiring.
It is building a workforce system that consistently helps your company find the right people, prepare them for success, develop strong supervisors, and retain employees long enough to become productive contributors.
That is where the NFFS Talent Pipeline Program comes in.
NFFS has a cohort built specifically around the foundry industry.
NFFS is the only trade association with its own Talent Pipeline Program cohort dedicated to a specific industry. Participating companies learn alongside other foundries that understand the same hiring pressures, workforce expectations, operational demands, and retention challenges.
Real workforce improvements. Measurable results.
At TPi Arcade, Leadership Retention Training and the 5th Metric Scorecard helped one department achieve these improvements within months.
“This is a great program; it requires commitment from managers and supervisors. If you take it seriously, it will increase performance and retention. I highly recommend this program.”
Other Foundries Are Seeing the Value
Calumet Brass described TPP as an “invaluable resource” for improving the retention of younger talent.
A&B Foundry called the program a “credible solution” for reducing turnover and improving productivity and safety.
Strengthen Every Stage of the Employee Journey
TPP helps foundries improve the full employee experience, from the first interaction with a candidate through long-term retention and workforce performance.
Recruit Better
Find candidates who fit your company and culture and set realistic expectations before they are hired.
Onboard Better
Create a stronger first day and improve the critical first 90 days.
Lead Better
Equip frontline supervisors to engage employees, strengthen teams, and improve performance.
Retain & Measure
Reduce turnover, accelerate productivity, and measure what is actually working.
You Do Not Have to Figure It Out Alone
TPP is not a manual that gets handed to your HR team with the expectation that they implement it alone. NFFS staff serve as your Network Coach, working alongside your HR and management teams to identify workforce challenges, implement practical improvements, measure progress, and build on what is working.
Stronger Foundries. A Stronger Maritime Industrial Base.
America’s defense and maritime industrial base depends on domestic foundries capable of producing mission-critical castings.
But industrial capacity is not only about equipment. It is about people.
Every foundry that improves retention, develops skilled employees, strengthens supervisors, and builds its next generation of workers adds capacity to the domestic metalcasting industry and America’s industrial base.
Enrollment Closes November 15
Do not wait for the next generation of foundry workers to find you.
Build a system to find them, develop them, and keep them.
Complete the TPP Interest Form →Want to learn more first? Visit the NFFS Talent Pipeline Program page.
Questions? Contact Bill Padnos, NFFS Director of Workforce Development at bill@nffs.org .