Not a one of these people have a clue how to build a workforce for what is coming. Elon Musk gets a big "F" in terms of doing his part because he remains clueless about just how incompetent our local officials remain. He is so accustomed to just calling on the locals that he fails to understand on job training he must take the lead.
After reading below Najera has to explain what he has done to help with job training. The answer is nothing. His promise sounds nice, but it delivers nothing.
OPEN LETTER TO ELON MUSK
I worked on all 100 B1B Bombers from ship 1 to 100. I grew in production and inventory control as computers played a big part in the process.
When inventory and production control fail, cost overruns and delays become the norm. For now, because locally no one has any interest in training our local workers, SpaceX should coordinate with TDC because they have a very good program for inmates. They have no problem placing former inmates at good jobs. They train the former inmates to be job ready when they complete their term at TDC. No such program is underway in Cameron County.
THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR ELON MUSK
He must go outside the area to hire a job recruiter and trainer to make Cameron County ready to fill the thousands of jobs coming our way at SpaceX and the Port.
We all know if the local officials respond to this post, they will hire their sons, daughters and local political operatives to handle job training and recruitment, with zero qualifications. I would not trust Adela Garza, John Cowen, or Eddie Trevino to execute the following plan. They have proven they know nothing about preparing for the new jobs. They have done nothing.
THE PLAN
Elon Musk must create a centralized workforce training and recruitment office. If he does not, he will find himself scrambling to hire the needed employees.
Step One: Elon Musk and the other incoming Port employers need to develop a list of jobs to be filled. For each job they need to state the related training and experience needed for the job. Elon Musk then needs to send these lists with a demand to each political entity in Cameron County and ask, what do you specifically have already in progress to train and fill these job openings? the answer is very little. No political entity in Cameron County has anyone on staff to help with developing the resources .to train the needed workforce.
Step Two: Once it is verified for Elon Musk no one has taken the needed action to prepare the local workforce, he through his workforce and training office need to spell out in clear terms what each entity must do to fill the prospective job openings.
Cameron County is going into a big boom period. In the same way we have a regional high school for medical training, we need a manufacturing regional high school. I can assure you this has not even occurred by our local state elected officials, or any other political entity.
An example where the high schools may be able to start the job training: Inventory control requires less training than production control. This is where I started. I basically stocked parts until an order was placed to pull the parts to create a kit to manufacture a new and larger part. Everyone in my unit at my level had zero training in computers, and certainly no university training. To a person they were a manager's son, no daughter allowed.
When the person charged with entering the data for missing parts went on vacation I was allowed to do his job. Immediately the line foreman noticed the difference. The manager's son thought his job was that of a typist. A very high paid typist. I realized a key part of the job was notifying the unit where the part was being held up. The line supervisors immediately asked who was doing my job. I kept the job.
They then moved me up to a shortage analyst. Again, the other workers were just acting as typists.
I worked with the computer programs based on my training with the "IF" statement and created very effective shortage reports which targeted the real problem. Parts started to move. The delays were going away. In 1976, computer training was learning the "IF" statement. It was not much more advanced in 1985. They were just moving beyond basic computer programing. But a command of the "IF" statement took you a long way.
Once you moved to production control you had to learn to read work orders to see if you needed to push certain parts to get them to the assembly line on time. It was all codes and you needed to learn them. Sometimes you had to take a scooter over to the area in machine shop where the part was being held up. The guys had thousands of brackets waiting to be deburred. If someone was not sent to the deburr area to move the brackets to the front of the line, they did not move. This part is production control.
MANUFACTING POSTITIONS
I am certain SpaceX will need electronic component assemblers. People in training to become electricians if they choose can be given extra training to be an assembler. But no one is doing the training.
We are in trouble with robotic assembling training. This will be another big part of the job training needed now.
GETTING TO THE FINAL POINT
Elon Musk needs to hire a liaison to manage all of this. He needs someone who can read his demand list and work with the Texas Workforce, TSC, BISD, and our local state representatives to create the infrastructure needed for all the jobs coming our way. None of this is happening, which makes this part of the reason I am calling out Najera, but in fact everyone running for the Port and TSC.
People will say I am trying to get a job. Hell no. I have found three options for a new home in NY. I am working as hard as I can to leave. We have no healthcare in the LRGV, generally. I do like my cardiologist, and my San Antonio pulmonologist is going to work with him to do the needed testing.
I would consider helping to hire the right person to do the job of liaison. If Elon Musk allows the local yokels to hire such a person, he will get what he deserves. Disaster.
I can help to get it going, but that is it.
In the field generally of inventory and production control is an expeditor. This person keeps things moving. It means being on people 24/7 to get them to perform their job. The liaison hired by Elon Musk needs to also be a good expeditor. Musk needs someone who will meet with the local officials who will either respond to Musk's needs or be left out of the process. There is no time or place for political maneuvering. Either verify you will be a player to move things along, and how you will be a key player, or get out of the way while Musk looks elsewhere for help.
I can write for pages about every manufacturing job and the need for training and how the training is performed, but I think my point has been made.
NOTHING IS GETTING DONE
The Texas Workforce Commission has no information about the future jobs so people can begin to look for job training. The Texas Workforce Commission should be reaching out to SpaceX, but they are not.
Whether it is TSC, BISD, or a regional effort nothing is being done to identify the jobs coming our way and how people go about to get job training.
As to the Port, there are a lot of potential jobs on the line. The Port is doing nothing to identify those jobs and the associated job training.
The Port election is about the billions of dollars about to come into the Port and control of the contracts. It is not about helping anyone in your family to get the needed job training and associated higher wages.
THE GUIDING TIMELINE
It is not random when SpaceX will need the workers. There is a production timeline I assume Elon Musk already has in place.
The date certain [ really an estimate] when Musk needs each worker ready to go.
Part one will include which workers will be needed for the first 6 months, and then a schedule for additional workers.
From that date for each job, you back out to how long is needed for to job training. You leave nothing to chance.
You identify where you will get the job training and insure, they can meet your deadline. This is just part of production control and having a good expeditor on board who can keep the training moving. There will be no time for excuses.

