Workforce

Hawkins County has an excellent labor force trained in all types of industrial skills including Tool & Die, Computer Programming, Engineering, Accounting, Production & Quality Control, Industrial Maintenance Operations, Machine Operating, Welding, Sales, Personnel, Clerical, Industrial Management, Transportation, and many others. Local industries experience an absenteeism rate of between 1 and 3%, a low tardiness rate, high productivity, and low union activity.

The Hawkins County Labor Shed consists of 8 counties in Eastern Tennessee and Western Virginia and has a population of 1,015,763 people. The 8 counties which comprise the labor shed are:

• Hawkins County, TN
• Sullivan County, TN
• Washington County, TN
• Carter County, TN
• Greene County, TN
• Knox County, TN
• Scott County, TN
• Washington County, TN