Allen and Joel had a great time in New Orleans talking to Gio Scialdone, President of 3S Lift Americas. 3S Lift has 7,000 Climb Auto Systems across America, helping technicians to get the job done quickly and safely.



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3S Lift Interview



Gio Scialdone: We're here again 



Allen Hall: We're at ACP 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana with Gio Scialdone from 3S Lift. If you don't know 3S Lift, you're missing out on so much 3S Lift is about. Saving technicians and making sure they get up and down towers safely and efficiently. Gio, welcome back to the program.



Gio Scialdone: Thank you for having me, Allen. Joel, nice to meet you.



Allen Hall: You as well. You know, this has been a really busy show compared to San Antonio last year. Yeah, I think so. I think roughly double the amount of people from what I can tell you. I assume you guys have been busy. I've been by your booth a couple of times.



There's a lot of people thinking about 



Gio Scialdone: technicians this week. I think people have to be thinking about technicians. If you, if you, if you look backwards and you look forward in terms of the operational existing towers, you have to think about technicians for your existing fleets. Yeah. Yeah. You look at the forward projections of the, the, the build out plan.



You have to think about who are the people that are gonna work at these places. Yeah. Um, you know, last time we talked about the, the competition, indirect competition that some of these workers could. Go be an Amazon truck driver and make 25 or 30 bucks now. Yeah, absolutely. They don't have to climb a winter run tower.



Yeah. You know, that's tough work. So there's some competition out there, not just inside the industry, but certainly outside. 



Joel Saxum: So we know that, like across the industry, of course, it's been the word for a long time. We've talked to a lot of people around the show about just the shortage of technicians. Yeah.



Right. And every and, and you're starting to see, which is great. A lot of companies pop up. Training, right? Hey, we're opening a GWO training center. We're opening this training center. We're gonna, there's a blade repair center opening up in, in Tennessee, so that's fantastic to bolster the whole fill of, of technicians into the industry.



Well, once they're there. So 3S Lift is taken care of 'em in another 



Gio Scialdone: step. I think. I think one, you know, workforce development is, is something that we talk about a lot. Our customers are talking about a lot. You, you're the, the recruitment, like you're talking about I is, is step one and the retention is really the hardest part.



Yeah. Right. Um, you could recruit people with probably a good paying job and an exciting job to go up and down a tower and you get to do mechanical, electrical work. Um, every six months maybe. 



Joel Saxum: Yeah. Make it tired. It's hard. It gets hard, it 



Gio Scialdone: gets tired. It's a war of attrition, right? It is. Indeed. Has 700 and something open Wind tech jobs today in, right now, in America right now.



Yeah. Um, and, you know, our, our product is Climb Auto System, lift Retrofittable to every ladder. Um, we see customers improving their ability to retain tech. Yeah. And, and, and, and that's, you know, ultimately that's leading.